Looking for an After Effects guide

godix · Post by **godix** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 11:10 pm

Thanks to lots of useful tips and guides around the net I managed to learn Premiere and Photoshop reasonably well but now I'm trying to learn how to use Aftereffects and have come accross an astounding lack of good guides. Unfortunately I need one because even after playing with Premiere I just don't get how AE works. Can anyone point me towards a guide designed for morons?

jonmartensen · Post by **jonmartensen** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 11:16 pm

RTFM? Yes, I think so, that's a good one.

Bebop0083 · Post by **Bebop0083** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 11:38 pm

jonmartensen wrote:RTFM? Yes, I think so, that's a good one.

damn it you beat me to the punch.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 11:40 pm

I wrote one like a month or 2 ago but phade never posted it yet

godix · Post by **godix** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 11:42 pm

The fucking manual sucks. It keeps assuming I know things that I don't, phrases things in a way that confuses me greatly, or occasionally flat out contradicts what knowledge I do what (I suspect I need to unlearn some Premiere things). Which is why I need the morons guide to AE rather than a manual. Thanks for the help though, it's appreciated.

Bebop0083 · Post by **Bebop0083** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 11:44 pm

godix wrote:The fucking manual sucks. It keeps assuming I know things that I don't, phrases things in a way that confuses me greatly, or occasionally flat out contradicts what knowledge I do what (I suspect I need to unlearn some Premiere things). Which is why I need the morons guide to AE rather than a manual. Thanks for the help though, it's appreciated.

exactly how do you unlearn??

godix · Post by **godix** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 11:48 pm

Bebop0083 wrote: exactly how do you unlearn??

Get married. At least that's what worked for me in the past, there are all sorts of things I once knew that apparently I unlearned by putting on that ring. Laundry. Cooking. Cleaning. Managing money. How not to get caught with porn. Choosing my own friends. Spelling and grammer (well, to be fair I never had that good a grasp on this to begin with). Being a man. Etc.

Bebop0083 · Post by **Bebop0083** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 11:51 pm

godix wrote:
Bebop0083 wrote: exactly how do you unlearn??
Get married. At least that's what worked for me in the past, there are all sorts of things I once knew that apparently I unlearned by putting on that ring. Laundry. Cooking. Cleaning. Managing money. How not to get caught with porn. Choosing my own friends. Spelling and grammer (well, to be fair I never had that good a grasp on this to begin with). Being a man. Etc.

sounds like fun. ill get married but no kids!!

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 11:53 pm

godix wrote:Spelling and <b>grammer</b> (well, to be fair I never had that good a grasp on this to begin with).

turboneko · Post by **turboneko** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 7:46 am

You could start with:

Creating motion graphics with After Effects, Volume 1: the essentials

If you ever want to get fancy, you can get

Creating motion graphics with After Effects, Volume 2: advanced techniques

as well

Great books, if you ask me...

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