This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.

Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe After Effects CC choose Adobe After Effects CC: Classroom in a Book from Adobe Press. The project-based lessons in this book show you step-by-step everything you need to know in order to use After Effects CC to create cinematic visual effects and sophisticated motion graphics.

The 14 project-based lessons in this book show students step-by-step the key techniques for working in After Effects and how to work efficiently and deliver in the widest possible range of media types.

In addition to learning the key elements of the After Effects interface, this revised edition (updated for the 2015 release of After Effects CC) covers new features and techniques, including the innovative Adobe Character Animator, Face Tracking, uninterrupted Preview with user-configurable behaviors, Creative Cloud Libraries (for sharing assets among multiple users and CC applications), and more.

Students redeem a unique code provided inside the book that grants them access to the downloadable lesson files they need to work through the projects in the book, and to electronic book updates covering new features that Adobe releases for Creative Cloud customers.

Students redeem a unique code provided inside the book that grants them access to the online companion files, including lesson files (allowing them to work along with the step-by-step tutorials in the book) as well as updates when Adobe releases new features. And new to this release, all buyers of the book get full access to the Web Edition: a Web version of the ebook enhanced by embedded videos and interactive multiple-choice quizzes. As always with the Classroom in a Book series, Instructor Notes are available to teachers by download from adobepress.com.