Adobe After Effects CS4 - Manual (Page 13)

7 USING AFTER EFFECTS CS4
Getting started
Last updated 12/21/2009
After Effects community resources
Resources on the Adobe website
Adobe provides documentation resources for After Effects on the
After Effects Community Help section of the Adobe
website. From the Community Help page, you can also search for community resources not on the Adobe website.
To make a feature request or file a bug report, fill out the feature request and bug report form on the Adobe website.
The Adobe After Effects User-to-User Forum is a great place to ask questions about After Effects and have them
answered by other After Effects users.
You can subscribe to RSS feeds from Adobe Technical Support so that you can get notification of issues and
workarounds related to After Effects (or other Adobe products).
For information on plug-ins available for After Effects, go to the After Effects plug-in page on the Adobe website.
To exchange scripts, projects, and other useful items with other After Effects users, go to the After Effects Exchange
on the Adobe website.
Michael Coleman, After Effects product manager, provides news and notes about After Effects on his Keyframes blog .
Todd Kopriva, After Effects documentation lead, provides links to instructional resources and reference material for
After Effects users on his
After Effects Region of Interest blog .
Adobe provides resources for scripting and plug-in creation on the After Effects Developer Center section of the
Adobe website. The Video Technology Center section of the Developer Center has information about all of the Adobe
digital video and audio applications. The Adobe Developer Center newsletter, The Edge , occasionally includes
material of interest to After Effects users, especially with regard to interactive video and video for the Web.
You can use the Adobe Community Publishing System (CPS) on the Adobe website to write and post articles directly
to Adobe.com.
Resources on other websites
A good place to ask questions about After Effects—especially with regard to integration with 3D applications—is the
Mograph forum .
The ProVideo Coalition (PVC) website contains articles and blogs on topics of interest to professionals in the video
industry. In addition to articles by Chris and Trish Meyer, the PVC website includes articles by Mark Christiansen,
Frank Capria, Jim Feeley, Adam Wilt, Mark Curtis, and Scott Gentry.
The Toolfarm website provides forums, tutorials, and other resources related to After Effects and other Adobe
products. The AE Freemart website is a division of Toolfarm that provides free tutorials about After Effects.
The AE Enhancers forum provides example scripts and useful information about scripting (as well as expressions and
animation presets) in After Effects.
Jonas Hummelstrand provides tutorials, troubleshooting tips, and insights about After Effects and motion graphics in
general on his
General Specialist website .
Trish and Chris Meyer provide instructional resources for After Effects in many places, including their CyberMotion
website .
Lutz Albrecht provides a list of After Effects error codes and some possible solutions on his Mylenium error code
database website .
John Dickinson provides tutorials and other resources for After Effects and related software on his Motionworks
website .