Discover After Effects, the industry-standard tool for video compositing, motion graphics, and cinematic visual effects. Justin Seeley shows how After Effects is used in television and film to composite and rotoscope scenes, create special effects and 3D scenes, and design and animate motion graphics and titles. Learn more from the full courses at Lynda.com.

Join Adobe evangelist Alan Greenblatt as he shows you how to bring special effects previously seen only in programs like Photoshop, to your Web content. You already know HTML5 Canvas lets you draw beautiful 3D graphics on your Web page, but Alan will teach you what you can do with the rest of the content which you have so beautifully created. You will learn:• How to create your own cinematic effects with CSS Filters & Shaders• About the W3C specs to which Adobe is contributing• Which W3C specs describe and define filters and shaders• The state of these specs, what browsers they're implemented in, and where you can use them right now

In this movie, Steve Grisetti explains how to use the Time Remapping tool. He shows you how to take a single clip and shift it into fast and slow motion to give your video a cinematic effect.

Hear how USC School of Cinematic Arts animation instructors helped a world-famous conductor launch a new form of classical music performance. Michael Patterson and Candace Reckinger, along with two students from their team, will share how they conceived and built animations to enhance the inaugural concert at the New World Theater in Miami. See their work, experience the music of Pictures at an Exhibition, and learn some technical tricks for melding music and imagination.

Learn how to deliver cinematic visual effects and sophisticated motion graphics with Adobe After Effects CS5.5 software, now with sophisticated stabilization, new lens and lighting effects, and the most efficient performance ever.

Join Richard Weinberg of the USC School of Cinematic Arts to explore high-resolution motion picture optical microscopy. Weinberg developed a system for shooting movies with a RED One camera through a microscope and created a ten-minute movie, "MicrOrganisms," in 4K resolution that premiered in December 2009 at the CineGrid conference. This session reviews the image capture, editing, and visual effects process and how Weinberg used this system to stream live HD microscopy from Los Angeles to Yokohama, Japan, for an interactive presentation at SIGGRAPH Asia.