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Title: After Effects Most Wanted by Christian Darken, Chris James Hewitt, Joost Korngold, Peter Reynolds, Mark Towse, Simon Tyszko, Christian Darkin, Chris Hewitt ISBN: 1-59059-163-1 Publisher: APress Pub. Date: 07 July, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.86 (7 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: hot & cold
Comment: This book is a weird one. on one hand it's inspiring & not at all like a AE manual which I appreciate. On the other it is also borderline useless. None [bar one] of the projects featured have a simple Quicktime or Windows movie of the final piece that you can view what it is the author actually did. They have AfterEffects working files of which you have to export the movies yourself, BUT each project also uses different third party filters [no demo's on the cd] which throw error's soon as you load the AE project so you STILL can't see the finished product. Just plain stupid if you ask me. Most of the projects seem to have between 100%-50% of the working files missing. in the case of renescant all you get is the finished movie & nothing else. seeing as you are paying for the oppurtunity to 'pick apart' the files & explore I think it's fair enough they hand them over.
Overall I kind of like the book, but it is really on the whole disapointing & frustrating. I doubt whether I will by another Friend of Ed book based on this one. it really feels like a stooge job in the end.
PS I visited the FofED site to try & find files of which I found some for one project. but nothing else.
My advice is steerclear unless you REALLY want this book. I am sure there are others out there that do what this one does ALOT better..
Rating: 5
Summary: Easily one of the better ones
Comment: The book has some great examples, which the reader is talked through. Not all of them are great, but a lot of them are, and they're from the sort of projects that form the bulk of AE work. It beats most of the AE books out there hands down (most of the others are just a rehash of the manual). I noticed a few people on the list hated it, but if they're really that advanced, why would they be bothered reading "how to" books? My biggest gripe with the book is that there were not MORE examples in there (books are expensive these days) > but I could say the same for most books I see now. Anyway, the book helped speed up my AE learning time, which is the main thing I'm after - not just an illustrated rehash of the manual.
Rating: 1
Summary: [bad]
Comment: ...It represents a new fashion in book publishing, where one author approaches a series of artists to share one of their projects and how they did it... The publishers love it because these books are so easy to do. The authors love it because no one person has to do the work. The result is a badly thought out, mish-mash of techniques and one total worthless book.
Too bad Amazon.com does not have a way to give "0" stars or even a minus category, like "I give this book -5 stars for failing on the most basic of criteria." These people should be drummed out of the profession for such rank amateur...
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Title: After Effects 5.5 Magic by Nathan Moody, Mark Christiansen ISBN: 0735711445 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 11 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects: Volume 2: Advanced Techniques by Trish Meyer, Chris Meyer ISBN: 1578202078 Publisher: CMP Books Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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Title: Photoshop for Nonlinear Editors by Richard Harrington ISBN: 1578202094 Publisher: CMP Books Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $54.95 |
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Title: Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects, Volume 1: The Essentials (2nd Edition, Version 5.5) by Trish Meyer, Chris Meyer, Trish ISBN: 1578201144 Publisher: CMP Books Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $54.95 |
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Title: Adobe After Effects 6.0 Classroom in a Book by Adobe Creative Team ISBN: 0321193792 Publisher: Adobe Press Pub. Date: 10 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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