Lynda - After Effects: Compositing a Cell Phone

Size: 2.37 GB | Duration: 1h 34m | Video: AVC (.mp4) 1280x720 15&30fps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 2ch

Genre: eLearning | Level: Intermediate | Language: English

The mobile app market is saturated. If you can show clients or investors how the app works—before any time or money has been invested into a lengthy development cycle—it can help speed up approval and funding. Here, Andy Needham shows how to take the app mockup created in the companion course, After Effects: Creating a Mobile App Interface, and composite it into live-action footage of a smartphone. The final product is an animated promo video that helps visualize how the app will be used on a real device. Andy also covers storyboarding, tracking, keying, color correction, and a few audio tips. By the end of the course, you'll have more experience with the screen replacement workflow in After Effects and have a web-ready deliverable ready to share with the world.

Topics include:

* Planning with a storyboard

* Filming the phone

* Importing the live-action footage in After Effects

* Retiming the animation

* Tracking the shot in mocha AE

* Keying the screen with Keylight

* Adding an animated logo

* Rendering the shot

* Color correcting the composite