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Adobe After Effects CS4 User Manual

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USING AFTER EFFECTS CS4

Getting started

Last updated 12/21/2009

Alan Shisko provides insights and tips about motion graphics on his

Motion Graphics 'n Such blog

.

Harry Frank provides tutorials on all areas of After Effects, with an emphasis on expressions and use of third-party
plug-ins on his

graymachine website

.

Andrew Kramer provides tutorials and training on his

Video Copilot website

.

Dan Ebberts provides scripting tutorials and useful scripts on the

scripting portion of the MotionScript website

. Dan

also provides an excellent collection of example expressions and tutorials for learning how to work with expressions
on the

expressions portion of the MotionScript website

.

Lloyd Alvarez provides a collection of useful scripts on his

After Effects Scripts website

.

Jeff Almasol provides a collection of useful scripts on his

redefinery website

.

Stu Maschwitz provides insights and tips about After Effects and video, visual effects, and compositing in general on
his

ProLost blog

.

The Creative COW website provides several resources for After Effects users. Many of these resources feature Aharon
Rabinowitz:

Multimedia 101 podcast

After Effects podcasts

After Effects tutorials

After Effects articles

After Effects Basics forum

After Effects forum

After Effects Expressions forum

The

Layers Magazine website

provides articles and tutorials about After Effects and other Adobe creative products.

David Van Brink provides tips, insights, and downloadable utilities for After Effects and other digital video software
on his

Omino website

.

Colin Braley provides tutorials—mostly about expressions—on

his website

.

Rich Young maintains a list of After Effects resources on his

AE Portal News blog

.

Rick Gerard provides tips and tricks on his

AE Tips and Tricks website

.

David Torno provides tips and tutorials about visual effects and compositing on his

AE I Owe You blog

.

Dean Velez provides many sample projects (some free) and other useful things on his

Motion Graphics Lab website

.

Jerzy Drozda, Jr. provides After Effects tutorials on his

Maltaannon website

.

Dale Bradshaw provides scripts and tricks on his

Creative Workflow Hacks website

.

Richard Harrington provides tutorials and other useful material about After Effects and other video software on his

Photoshop for Video website

and

Raster|Vector website

. He also posts video tutorials on

Adobe TV

.

Sean Kennedy provides several video tutorials—including some about rotoscoping and motion tracking—on the
SimplyCG website. They're all linked to from

his website

.

Ayato Fuji provides tutorials on his

ayato@web website

. Some of the tutorials are a little out of date, but much of the

material is still strong, especially for learning to use some of the Trapcode plug-ins.

Ko Maruyama, Stephen Schleicher, and Brian Maffitt are among the people who post about After Effects on the

DMN

After Effects Channel

.

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