Adobe After Effects is a powerful industry standard tool for manipulating video, animation and still images. AfterEffects is often described as 'Photoshop' for moving images, because it allows you to add a wide range of filters and effects to such images, but the software offers far more than this besides.
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An introduction to Adobe AfterEffects, which outlines the basic opertaions and principles which underpin the software. |
Adobe Premiere is a flexible and user-friendly package which allows you to edit video and audio, create titles, add video filters and create motion effects. It also contains a range of sophosticated tools for altering the appearance and motion of video footage. Built into the software is a high level of integration with other Adobe software.
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An introduction to capturing DV and printing finished movies to tape | |
| Premiere Timeline Editing, Pt1 | An introduction to Adobe Premiere, which deals with the basics of editing. |
Adobe Illustrator allows you to create vector graphics (based on lines and points) which are extremely useful in creating motion graphics for use in applications like AfterEffects and Premiere. The package also allows you to transform text into graphic objects for editing.
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An introduction to Adobe Illustrator concentrating in particular on the package's abilty to deform and edit text. |