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Title: After Effects Most Wanted by Christian Darkin, Chris James Hewitt, Joost Korngold, Peter Reynolds, Simon Tysko, Mark Towse ISBN: 1-904344-02-X Publisher: Wrox Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.62 (8 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: The Worst After Effects Book you can buy
Comment: "After Effects Most Wanted" is easily the worst book on AE I have ever tried to sit down and use. The construction of each tutorial makes little sense, the plug in's used are not included, and most of the files you need are simply not on the CD. Those that are there are usually labelled incorrectly or corrupt.
I wrote the publisher about the missing files, and they pointed me to a site that gave me the suspect files for only one chapter, the rest are no where to be found.
The tutorials are badly written/organized, and incredibly tough to follow for even advanced users. The whole thing was an excercise in frustration and I hope this review can save you the same stress. If you want to learn some intermediate-advanced After Effects, definitely look elsewhere.
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.
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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: Revolutionary After Effects 5.5 Enhancing Digital Video by George Kingsnorth, Christian Darkin, Peter Reynolds, Ned Soltz, Darren Smith, Mark Welland, Paul Logan ISBN: 1903450780 Publisher: friends of Ed Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: After Effects 6: Hands-On Training (Linda Weinman's Hands-On Training (H.O.T.)) by Lynda Weinman, Craig Newman ISBN: 0321228545 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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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: Adobe After Effects 6.0: Classroom in a Book (Classroom in a Book) by Adobe Creative Team ISBN: 0321193792 Publisher: Adobe Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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