By improving on existing features and introduce new, After Effects development team has been re-creating a must-have version for the professional After Effects designers. After Effects 5.5 Magic take the intermediate to advanced users through a tutorial tour of some of these features, while strengthening old equipment is important. Featuring chapters written by figures such as After Effects as Fred Lewis, Patrick Siemer, and Dan Ablan, to name a few, there are chapters on the resolution of the film, animated logos, merge 2-D and 3-D layers, motion tracking, and some chapter in the live-action compositing. There are also chapters on the creation of video distortion and exporting styles and create animations for the Web in the form of Flash (SWF) file. The final third of this book focuses on one feature After Effects' most powerful: the expression. Mark has done a great job explaining the basics, techniques, and various applications, and these chapters are worth the cost of books. New Riders book in the series Magic, written by experienced authors discuss the advanced features, and target advanced users.