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Adobe After Effects CS3 User Manual

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INDEX 667

panels

docking and grouping 14

opening and closing 17

resizing 16

panning

anchor point 154

audio 375

masks 266

Paragraph panel 283

paragraph text

See also text

converting to point 276

param (expression element) 576

parameters (expression element) 581

Parametric EQ effect 374

parametric shape paths 314

parent (expression element) 570

parent layers 158

Particle Playground effect 499

patches, Mesh Warp 409

path names 36

path operations, shape layers 314, 332

Path Options property, text 294

Path Text effect 526

Pathfinder effects 333

paths

about 313

animating 325

converting to RotoBezier 323

creating 318, 320, 321

direction handles 209

modifying 258, 323, 327

placing text along 293

PDF files

exporting Clip Notes comments

as 634

Pen tool

drawing paths 321

editing paths 323

keyframes and motion paths 198

per-character 3D text properties 293

performance, improving 41

Perspective effects

3D Glasses effect 482

Basic 3D effect 483

Bevel Alpha effect 484

Bevel Edges effect 484

Drop Shadow effect 484

Radial Shadow effect 485

Photo Filter effect 400

Photoshop. See Adobe Photoshop

PIC format, importing 77

pick whip, creating expressions

with 550

pingpong, keyframe looping

argument 578

pins, Puppet 226, 231

pitch

changing 224

pixel aspect ratio 55, 57

Pixel Motion 225

pixelAspect (expression

element) 568, 569

pixels 312

placeholders 61

planning 28

platforms and importing 63

playback. See previews

plug-ins 7, 44

in Adobe Store 10

point of interest 179

point text

See also text

converting to paragraph 276

pointOfInterest (expression

element) 574, 575

Polar Coordinates effect 411

Polygon tool 319

Portable Document Format. See PDF

files

position

expression example 583

Pan Behind tool 266

position (expression element) 571

Posterize effect 521

Posterize Time effect 532

posterizeTime (expression

element) 561

post-render actions 602

precomposing 113, 114

preferences

resetting 21

Premiere Pro. See Adobe Premiere

Pro

premultiplied channels 53, 253

preparing source footage 47

prerendering 114

Preserve Underlying Transparency

option 264

preset export settings 612

presets. See animation presets

pressure setting 305

previews

about 120

alpha and color channels 129

choosing a viewer 124

color management 247, 248

external video monitors 126

grain effects 455

memory requirements 38

methods 120

modes 124

performance 41

viewers 19

work area 112

profiling a monitor 243

progressive scanning 70

Project panel 58

project settings 29

project templates 23

projects 23, 60, 63

properties

effects 350

expression elements 576

layers 152

properties and property groups 152

propertyGroup (expression

element) 579, 580

propertyIndex (expression

element) 579, 580

proxies 61

PS Arbitrary Map effect

about 401

Pucker & Bloat path operation 332

pulldown

adding 633

removing 72

punctuation, hanging 284

Puppet tools

about 226

automatically animating 229

manually animating 228

mesh and pins 231

outlines and paths 230

Overlap controls 231

Starch controls 232

purge 38