Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:03:06 -0600 (CST)
   From: Mark Jacobson <jacobson@cns.uni.edu>
     To: 810-088-12-spring@uni.edu
Subject: Quiz two on Wednesday, Review of today's class available...

Hello VE, A, and MG students,

    Here is a review of today's class, which mainly got into chapter 3 of 
the textbook and some concepts and techniques involving Layers.

    Lesson 3: Layer Control

         http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/AE/04/February1stReview.pdf

    Reminder that the quiz one is on Wednesday and almost every Wednesday 
for the rest of the semester there will be a 10 minute quiz at the end of 
class.

    Since the first project is due on Friday, involving the pineapple 
animation and including some animated text (using APSRO animation or using 
the animation preset text effects), the main topics for quiz one will be:

    1. the pineapple assignment and all the concepts and skills it
       involves, so watch the two videos.

                http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/AE/weeks1thru5.html

       I will watch those videos again myself and prepare many or most
       of the quiz questions from material available in those videos.

       Of course, Lesson 1 and Lesson 2 material from the book such as
       Ease In and Ease Out and Easy Ease and so on is covered in those
       videos.

    2. Exercise 1: Export Text Animation as Flash SWF
       ----------------------------------------------
       Pages 67, 68, and 69 (pages 3, 4 and 5 of the PDF) from the
       VERTIGO day.  This in ONLY the Adobe After Effects portion
       and pages.  The AFTER EFFECTS, as you recall, used the
       Effects & Presets tab to get to the Animation Presets folder,
       which had a Text folder, which had an Animate In folder,
       which had a CENTER SPIRAL choice for the text effect.

       IGNORE the EXPORT text animation.  IGNORE the FLASH.
       FOCUS ON HOW TO CREATE THE TEXT ANIMATION IN AFTER EFFECTS.

       Do NOT worry at all about any of the Adobe Flash portion of
       that PDF.  You will get more Flash experience later this
       semester.

       http://www.uni.edu/jacobson/AE/eyeball.html

       http://www.focalpress.com/uploadedFiles/Books/Book_Media/Animation_and_3D/Exporting%20SWF%20Files.pdf

       URL's as long as the one for the above PDF should be illegal on
       the internet!  If you have trouble, remember that the eyeball.html
       page has a LINK to the same PDF URL.

    3. Today's material on [ and ] and Alt+[ and Alt+] and B and N
                    and on I and O should be reviewed, as it is fair
                    game for the quiz.  Even if you missed class, the
                    following review page is enough for you to work
                    through to catch up on Layer Control.

              http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/AE/04/February1stReview.pdf

    We will do some sunny.uni.edu stuff on Wednesday and some Flash, so 
those of you who are adventurous can TRY (not necessarily succeed this 
week) to upload your After Effects pineapple assignment to your 
sunny.uni.edu account, so it can be shared over the web.  The CCC 
(Computer Consulting Center) on the bottom floor of ITTC is where you need 
to go if you forgot your sunny.uni.edu password.

    We'll try to briefly do some sunny.uni.edu and SSH Secure Shell on 
Wednesday, if time permits.

    Time may NOT permit, since we have to render out After Effects 
composition as FLV (FLash Video) and then create a Flash application to 
play that FLV FLash Video and then PUBLISH that Flash application and
upload 3 files to your sunny.uni.edu account:

                 1. The FLV file (FLash Video version of your AE COMP).
                 2. The SWF file that Flash produces.
                 3. THe HTML file that Flash produces when you PUBLISH.

    Again, for this first assignment, you do NOT have to upload it to
sunny.uni.edu and can just send an attachment of the aep AE project file 
to my email address at jacobson@cs.uni.edu and I can grade it that way.

    I do NOT need the pineapple PSD file (the PhotoShop Document file).
                                ---           -    -    -

    Just the .aep file, which contains the PINEAPPLE COMP. I will save it 
to the same folder that I have the pineapple.psd FOOTAGE in and can see if 
it works fine there.

    jacobson@cs.uni.edu     is the email address....

                            CS is all you have to remember to add!
    Mark

Think about these NOW, so you are able to more quickly come up to speed on
           publishing and uploading AFTER EFFECTS projects to sunny.uni.edu
           as FLV Flash Video.
                                            FLV, SWF and HTML.

                 1. The FLV file (FLash Video version of your AE COMP).
                 2. The SWF file that Flash produces.
                 3. The HTML file that Flash produces when you PUBLISH.

                                            FLV, SWF and HTML.
                                            FLV, SWF and HTML.
                                            FLV, SWF and HTML.

       What software package creates the SWF?
       What software package creates the HTML?
       What software package creates the FLV?

    You will know the answers to those questions soon, but think about
                                                   the 3 questions NOW!