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After Effects User Interface and Animation

  • Understanding project files and their contents
  • Exploring Tools and Panels
  • Creating a Composition
  • Importing Media into a Project

Basic Animation

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

Intermediate Animation

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

Layer Control

  • Trimming, moving, stacking, and splitting layers
  • Sequencing Layers
  • Looping Footage
  • Working with Image Sequences
  • Frame Rate versus Time Stretch
  • Blending Modes
  • Applying Effects and creating Solids
  • Advanced Blending Modes
  • Using Layer Styles
  • Creating Masks

Transparency

  • Adjusting Opacity
  • Using Masks
  • Manipulating Shape
  • Applying Feather
  • Using Expansion
  • Masking with the Pen Tool
  • Working with Track Mattes

Effects

  • Navigating the Effects and Presets Panels
  • Applying Effects to layers
  • Modifying Effects via the Effects Control Panel
  • Animating Effects
  • Reordering Effects
  • Utilizing Adjustment Layers

The Text Tool

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

Render Order

  • How After Effects composites the final output
  • Exporting files
  • Adding projects to the Render Queue
  • Adding projects to the Adobe Media Encoder Queue

Requirements

This course is designed for individuals seeking to professionally edit and manipulate video files by applying high-standard post-production effects.

Participants should possess general computer proficiency, such as copying, pasting, and opening files or applications. Familiarity with common video terminology is also beneficial.

 14 Hours

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