Chris Meyer reviews existing methods to work on one portion of a chain of compositions while viewing the final result in another, then introduces a new feature in After Effects CS5.5 that simplifies opening a second viewer for side-by-side work.

In cities around the world, globalization is producing contrasts at every turn: old versus new, Eastern versus Western, wealth versus poverty, local versus multinational.

In cities around the world, globalization is producing contrasts at every turn: old versus new, Eastern versus Western, wealth versus poverty, local versus multinational.

This presentation will introduce the iPhone SDK to aid in iOS development by using terms they already understand, by comparing the elements of the iPhone SDK to elements used in Flash. We'll do side-by-side comparison of Objective-C to ActionScript. We'll compare a few functional examples of tasks that you know how to do in ActionScript, and show you how to do them in Objective-C: parsing XML, loading images, saving preferences, animating graphics.