Adobe After Effects 5.0

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ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS 5.0. Classroom in a Book. 4 In the Project window, double-click the Soundtrack.aif file. The Footage window. opens as a small playbar. …

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4 Building Star-like Elements
This lesson takes you into one of the most
fun features in the After Effects treasury
of tools: playing with the output graph for
an audio file to create an animated
graphic. You’ll also use a transition effect
to create another animated graphic. Both
of these elements challenge you to dream
up your own innovative ways of using
After Effects features, tools, and effects to
create fresh looks in animated design.144 LESSON 4
Building Star-like Elements
In this lesson, you’ll learn to do the following:
?Import multiple files
?Import and work with audio files
?Create images from audio layers
?Apply the Audio Spectrum effect to a path
?Apply the Radial Blur effect
?Apply the Stencil Alpha transfer mode
?Apply the Iris Wipe effect and use it in a non-traditional way
?Set keyframes in the Effect Controls window
In this lesson, you’ll build two star-like elements. You’ll render each of these as a
QuickTime movie and eventually use them both in the final composite.
This lesson takes about one hour to complete, plus the amount of time your system
requires to render the movies.
Getting started
Make sure that the following files are in the AE_CIB job folder on your hard drive, or copy
them from the After Effects Classroom in a Book CD now.
?In the _audio folder: Soundtrack.aif
?In the _ai folder: Starburst.ai
?In the Sample_Movies folder: Starburst_final.mov and Lightrays_final.mov from the
Sample_Movies/Lesson04 folder on the CD
?In the Finished_Projects folder:…