User Guide

CONTENTS
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Creating Expressions Chapter 10
Using expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Creating expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Creating expressions with the pick whip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Writing your own expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Understanding the expression language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Using the expression language menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Sample expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
After Effects expression language guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Managing Projects
Effectively
Chapter 11
Visualizing organization with Flowchart View . . . . . . . . . 339
Organizing a project using nesting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Creating animations by nesting compositions . . . . . . . . . 345
Saving time by prerendering nested compositions . . . . 347
Understanding precomposing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348
Reducing the project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
Rendering a Movie Chapter 12
Understanding rendering and compression . . . . . . . . . . . 354
Making (rendering) a movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
Using the Render Queue window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Changing render settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
Creating and using render settings templates . . . . . . . . . 360
Changing output module settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Creating and using output module templates . . . . . . . . . 364
Exporting to Macromedia Flash (SWF) format . . . . . . . . . 365
Saving a RAM preview as a rendered movie . . . . . . . . . . . 368
Exporting footage using QuickTime components . . . . . 369
Rendering an item to multiple formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
Choosing compression options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
Exporting a single frame of a composition . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
Creating a filmstrip file for editing in Photoshop . . . . . . . 374
Rendering frames as a sequence of still images . . . . . . . . 375
Rendering cross-platform movies and stills . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
Collecting files in one location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
Rendering using a watch folder (PB only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
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