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USING AFTER EFFECTS CS4
Index
Last updated 12/21/2009
locking and unlocking
326
modes, blending
377
modifying
327
motion blur
332
moving
332
Pan Behind tool
331
saving and reusing
376
selecting
325
using with grain effects
519
viewing
323
masks, conversion in Adobe Premiere
Pro
89
Match Grain effect
521, 524, 526, 530
material options (3D)
193
math, expressions
666
Matte Choker effect
516
Matte effects
Matte Choker effect
516
Simple Choker effect
517
matted alpha channels
73
matted channels
75
mattes
about
375
closing holes
516
refining
385
removing
451
spreading and choking
516, 517
track and traveling
380
using with grain effects
519, 520
mattes, conversion in Adobe Premiere
Pro
89
Maya format
importing
99, 101
Media & Disk Cache preferences
634
media cache
634
media player setup
35
Median effect
532
Memory & Multiprocessing preferences
635
memory requirements
632
memory, caches
633
menus
17
Merge Paths
338
Mesh Warp effect
476
mesh, Puppet
259
metadata
about
625
creating
630
editing
631
file, clip, and project
629
showing and hiding
630
metal (expression element)
673
methods (expressions)
655
Metrics kerning
349
Minimax effect
450
Mirror effect
477
mixing audio
439
mobile devices
35, 56
Modulator effect
438
monitors
profiling
287
Monochrome control, Channel Mixer
effect
457
Mosaic effect
590
motion blur
227, 332
motion paths
auto-orientation
153
changing speed numerically
243
creating
223
creating from masks
226
Motion Sketch
226
smoothing
229
spatial interpolation and
232
speed
237
Motion Sketch
226
Motion Tile effect
590
motion tracking
about
262
applying to another layer
272
attach point
263
correcting drift
272
feature region
263
search region
263
stabilizing motion
267
track points
263, 271
tracking data
270
tracking rotation
267
tracking scale
267
workflow
264
Motion values, conversion in After
Effects
90
Move All Attributes Into The New
Composition option
62
movies, making from compositions
692
MPEG indexing
634
mul (expression element)
662
multiple monitors
10
multiprocessing
635
mutation
168
MXF
69
importing
96
N
name (expression element)
668, 669, 672
names
footage files
37
project files
37
nearestKey (expression element)
667, 672,
680
nested compositions
3D layers
65
about
60
pre-rendering
64
network rendering
727, 729, 730
new features
9
noise
in camera raw images
133
noise (expression element)
664
Noise & Grain effects
Add Grain effect
526
Dust & Scratches effect
527
Fractal Noise effect
527
Match Grain effect
530
Median effect
532
Noise Alpha effect
533
Noise effect
532
Noise HLS Auto effect
534
Noise HLS effect
534
Remove Grain effect
534
Turbulent Noise effect
537
Noise Alpha effect
533
Noise effect
532
Noise HLS Auto effect
534
Noise HLS effect
534
noise sampling, grain effects
522, 530
non-drop-frame timecode
52
noninterlaced video
92
normalize (expression element)
663
NTSC to PAL
732
null objects
about
167
using with Expression Controls
effects
653
Numbers effect
595, 596
numKeys (expression element)
668, 672,
680
numLayers (expression element)
668
O
Obsolete effects
Basic 3D effect
613
Basic Text effect
613
