After Effects tutorial: Adjusting shadows and matte edges | lynda.com

This After Effects tutorial shows how to add shadows and soften the edges of objects in motion-tracked footage. Watch more at http://www.lynda.com/After-Effects-tutorials/Maya-Rendering-After-Effects-Composites/97402-2.html?utm_medium=viral&utm_source=youtube&utm_campaign=videoupload-3DA-WxwNf_2FsPw.

This tutorial is just a single movie from the sixth chapter of the Maya Rendering for After Effects Composites course presented by lynda.com author Lee Lanier. The complete course is 3 hours long, and shows how to create render passes in Autodesk Maya, recombine the passes in Adobe After Effects, and motion track the passes to live-action video footage that contains a moving camera or a moving character

Maya Rendering for After Effects Composites table of contents:
Introduction
1. Prepping a Maya Scene
2. Introduction to the Render Layer Editor
3. Creating Render Passes with mental ray
4. Recombining Render Passes in After Effects
5. Transforming Motion Tracking in After Effects
6. Transforming Motion Tracking to a Moving Camera
7. Stabilization and Corner Pin Motion Tracking
Conclusion