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In this book, you’ll learn how to:

Integrate After Effects text effects in Flash.

Create Flash content that interacts with After Effects content.

Use the 3D features of After Effects in Flash.

Use a variety of masking techniques in After Effects and Flash to add “wow” to

your work.

Use a variety of Flash and After Effects filters to create content that makes the

viewer wonder “Is it Flash or is it video?”

From After Effects to Flash: Poetry in Motion Graphics

As a Flash 8 designer, you have discovered the power of the video tools in the

application. The new filters and effects and ActionScript classes allow you to

create a variety of stunning visual effects in Flash. What you probably haven’t

discovered is how easy it is empower your video hundreds of times more by

combining the many effects and tools in After Effects 7 Professional with Flash!

This book, the first to explore the potential power and creativity boost that can be

unleashed when After Effects and Flash are used together, is designed to get you up

to speed with working in these two applications while hitting you with some creative

innovation. You will discover how effectively you can use After Effects to create video

and animation effects that were either extremely difficult or impossible to achieve

in Flash.

By the end of this book, you will have created a variety of projects ranging from text

effects, masks, and alpha channel video to 3D effects and audio visualization. All are

designed to show you the potential available to you with these two powerhouse

applications, and, more importantly, to expand the arsenal of creative motion graphics

tools at your disposal.

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From After Effects to Flash:

Poetry in Motion Graphics

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DEDICATION

To William Hanna, Dean of the School of Media Studies at the Humber

Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning in Toronto, who shares my

passion for digital media and has supported me every step of the way.

Thanks, William.

—Tom

To my girlfriend, Anjanee, who supported me throughout the writing

of this book, and learned to accept my working moods.

—Tiago

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