Getting started. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

Lesson overview

ANIMATING LAYERS

Laboratory work 6

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

􀁴 Animate a layered Adobe Photoshop file.

􀁴 Duplicate an animation using the pick whip.

􀁴 Work with imported Photoshop layer styles.

􀁴 Apply a track matte to control the visibility of layers.

􀁴 Animate a layer using the Corner Pin effect.

􀁴 Apply the Lens Flare effect to a solid layer.

􀁴 Use time remapping and the Layer panel to dynamically retime footage.

􀁴 Edit Time Remap keyframes in the Graph Editor.

This lesson will take approximately an hour to complete. Copy the Lesson06 folder into the Lessons folder that you created on your hard drive for these projects (or create it now), if you haven’t already done so. As you work on this lesson, you’ll preserve the start files. If you need to restore the start files, copy them from the Adobe After Effects CS5 Classroom in a Book DVD.

Animation is all about making changes over time— changes to an object or image’s position, opacity, scale, and other properties. This lesson provides more practice animating the layers of a Photoshop file, including dynamically remapping time.

Adobe After Effects provides several tools and effects that let you simulate motion video using a layered Photoshop file. In this lesson, you will import a layered Photoshop file of the sun appearing through a window, and then animate it to simulate the motion of the sun rising behind the panes of glass. This is a stylized animation in which the motion is first accelerated, and then slows down as clouds and birds move through the window frame at the end. First, you’ll preview the final movie and set up the project.

1 Make sure the following files are in the AECS5_CIB/Lessons/Lesson06 folder on your hard disk, or copy them from the Adobe After Effects CS5 Classroom in a Book DVD now:

􀁴 In the Assets folder: clock.mov, sunrise.psd

􀁴 In the Sample_Movies folder: Lesson06_regular.mov, Lesson06_retimed.mov

2 Open and play the Less on06_regular.mov file to see the straightforward timelapse animation you will create in this lesson.

3 Open and play the Lesson06_retimed.mov file to see the same animation after time has been remapped, which you will also do in this lesson.

4 When you’re done, quit QuickTime Player. You may delete the sample movies from your hard disk if you have limited storage space.

When you begin the lesson, restore the default application settings for After Effects. See “Restoring default preferences” on page 3.

5 Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift (Windows) or Command+Option+Shift (Mac OS) while starting After Effects. When asked whether you want to delete your preferencesfile, click OK. Click Close to close the Welcome screen. After Effects opens to display an empty, untitled project.

6 Choose File > Save As.

7 In the Save As dialog box, navigate to the AECS5_CIB/Lessons/Lesson06/ Finished_Project folder.

8 Name the project Lesson06_Finished.aep, and then click Save.

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