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1. The document provides instructions for creating a basic title sequence in Adobe After Effects, including setting up a new composition, adding and animating text, and preparing alpha channels in Photoshop. 2. It outlines steps for setting keyframes to animate text moving from one position to another over the timeline. 3. Students are assigned as homework to design their own title sequence practicing these skills and prepare two images with alpha channels of similarly shaped people/objects for the next class.

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Week One

1. The document provides instructions for creating a basic title sequence in Adobe After Effects, including setting up a new composition, adding and animating text, and preparing alpha channels in Photoshop. 2. It outlines steps for setting keyframes to animate text moving from one position to another over the timeline. 3. Students are assigned as homework to design their own title sequence practicing these skills and prepare two images with alpha channels of similarly shaped people/objects for the next class.

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Kati Anguelov Intermediate Motion Graphics MA4405 WEEK 1. a.) Review of interface b.) Files Prepared in Photoshop/Illustrator c.

)Creating a mini-title sequence REVIEW: 1. Start AFX 2. The new greeting window will allow you to select New Composition, but might as well learn the shortcut which is Ctrl N

3. You get a new pop-up window where you determine a lot about your project. 4. In our industry we are going to create films of the following aspect ratio: 640x480 NTSC. That means that the film will be 640 pixels wide and 480 pixels height. It will be compatible with USA standards and you can put them on a DVD and be able to play it in a DVD player and it won't look too bad!!! 720x480 is another setting used a lot in higherend products for wide screen and stuff. 5. Either way, you need to name your comp here and make sure that the frame rate setting is 29.97 (standard video). The duration of the project 1

is given to you like this: hour, minute, second and frame is the last two zeros. So let's set our project to 15 seconds. 6. When your create a new comp you automatically get 2 major windows to open: a.) Comp Window b.)Timeline

The Timeline window has a new little icon, the label icon. This is right above the label color of your object. 7. Select the type tool from the Tools Window (it is the one with the T) click on the comp window in the middle and type a simple text like WOW or something rather. You can change the color of your text in the Character window and this is where you could switch to another font. 8. When the text is to your liking hit enter and select the Selection tool (Arrow) again. You will notice that the layer in the Timeline window is now named after the actual word you typed in. cool. We have text. SETTING KEYFRAMES: 1. To set a keyframe click on the layer in the Timeline window. Position the word on the Project window wherever you wish. 2. click on the triangle left to the name of the layer. Twirl it down, and twirl down "Transform" as well. Choose Position from the options appearing and click on the watch clock icon. Notice the diamond shape keyframe that now appears in the timeline. Cool. Now we have to select another position for the word. 3. Hit "End" on the keyboard which will take you to the end of your timeline. Here move the word to another location (it's like this; we want the word to move from a to b, we determined a with the first keyframe now we have to set where b is. 4. Now when you moved the word a new keyframe is set automatically. To preview your animation click on the play button in the Time Control window

PREP WORK IN PHOTOSHOP: Creating Alpha channels: 1. 2. 3. Open the provided image and go to the Channels panel In the layers panel choose the channel tab to display the RGB channels. Click on new channel icon on the bottom of the layers window

4. You'll get a big old black surface. As far as Alpha Channel goes, BLACK represents what you DON'T want to see and WHITE is what you do. Methods of delineating matte areas a. selecting the affected areas with the magic wand, lasso, or other selection tools and then affecting the alpha channel directly w/the paint bucket b. using the paint brush or other direct tool to paint white directly onto the alpha channel c. you can also turn on the other channels as a guide and just erase from the alpha channel the parts you WANT to see. 4. Photoshop and Illustrator files sometimes have paths. If so, when you click on the path tab of the image it is displayed. You can select this path, and click on the load path as a selection button:

5. In the Channels palette click on Create New Channel to save this selection as an alpha channel. Create an Alpha channel for the provided picture and import it into AFX properly 6. Design and create a title sequence for your self (maybe can be used for your demo reel!) Practice your preset skills!
Prepare 2 images with appropriate alpha channels of 2 similarly shaped people/objects for next weeks class, i.e. front-facing photos 2 people, a hand and some similarly shaped treebranches etc.

HOME WORK:

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