This specific tutorial is just a single movie from chapter two of the After Effects CS5 Essential Training course presented by lynda.com author Chad Perkins. The complete After Effects CS5 Essential Training course has a total duration of 8 hours and 39 minutes and explores the basic tools, effects, and need-to-know techniques in Adobe After Effects CS5
After Effects CS5 Essential Training table of contents:
1. Introduction
2. Introductory Project
3. Getting Started with After Effects
4. Learning to Animate
5. Precomposing and Nesting Compositions
6. The Power of Effects
7. Working with Video
8. Color-Correcting Footage
9. Creating and Animating Text
10. Becoming More Efficient
11. Painting
12. Working with Masks and Shape Layers
13. Working in 3D
14. Keying and Compositing
15. Intermediate Animation
16. Stabilizing and Tracking Motion
17. Parenting and Expressions
18. Working with Audio
19. Rendering and Compression
20. Integration
Conclusion