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AE 7 Classroom in a Book okay for CS3?
Firstly, let me appologize if I’m posting in the wrong forum, but I figured one of you brilliant folks would know the answer:
My parents graciously ordered me the After Effects classroom in a book… however they ordered the one for AE 7 rather than CS3 which is what we have at school.
It was ordered online so it’d kind of be a pain to return it…
Will I be able to get by with it? Or should I try and switch to the CS3 book? More importantly, will the DVD included work fine with CS3?
Thanks very much, and sorry if I posted in the wrong forum.
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Hi,
I have this book, and you will be fine with it. Obviously it doesn’t cover the features that were new to CS3 (the puppet/starch tool, shape layers, brainstorming), but you can find more than enough info on these new features on the web. For example, Aharon’s tutorials from about a year ago in the AE podcast section here at the Cow deal with a lot of these concepts.
Of course, CS3 has all the things that 7.0 does (and a practically identical user interface), so if you’re learning the programme from scratch the book will be a great help.
I can’t recall if the included disc has project files, but CS3 converts 7.0 files to the new format so you would be able to use these.
Simon Bonner
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Perfect! Thanks very much.
Knowing the school in a few months they’ll have CS4 anyways so no matter what I’ll likely be behind! haha.
But yes, I’m learning from scratch so I’m glad that it’ll help (I heard the CS3 book had a lot of mistakes anyways).
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