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After Effects User Interface and Animation

  • Understanding project files and their contents
  • Exploring tools and panels
  • Creating a new composition
  • Importing media into a project

Basic Animation

  • Adding layers to a composition
  • Navigating the timeline
  • Working with layer transform properties
  • Keyframing layer attributes
  • Using RAM preview

Intermediate Animation

  • Advanced keyframe manipulation and interpolation
  • Utilizing the Graph Editor
  • Motion Sketch and Smoother
  • Auto-Orient and Motion Blur
  • Roving Keyframes
  • Anchor Point and Pan Behind Tool

Layer Control

  • Trimming, moving, stacking, and splitting layers
  • Sequencing layers
  • Looping footage
  • Working with image sequences
  • Frame Rate vs. Time Stretch
  • Applying blending modes
  • Effects and Solids
  • Blending Modes
  • Layer Styles
  • Masks

Transparency

  • Adjusting opacity
  • Creating masks
  • Shape manipulation
  • Feathering
  • Expansion
  • Masking using the Pen Tool
  • Track Mattes

Effects

  • Effects and Presets panels
  • Applying effects to layers
  • Modifying effects via the Effects Control panel
  • Animating effects
  • Reordering effects
  • Using adjustment layers

The Text Tool

  • Using the text tool
  • Animating text
  • Applying text animation presets

Render Order

  • Understanding how After Effects assembles the final image
  • Exporting files
  • Adding items to the Render Queue
  • Adding items to the Adobe Media Encoder Queue

Requirements

This course is designed for individuals seeking to professionally edit and manipulate video files, with a focus on adding high-standard post-production effects.

Participants should be comfortable with basic computer operations, such as copying, pasting, and opening files or applications. A working understanding of common video terminology is also beneficial.

 14 Hours

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