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After Effects User Interface and Animation

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

Basic Animation

  • Adding layers to a composition
  • Navigating the timeline
  • Transform properties of layers
  • Keyframing layer properties
  • RAM preview

Intermediate Animation

  • In-depth keyframe manipulation and interpolation
  • Graph Editor
  • Motion Sketch/Smoother
  • Auto-Orient/Motion Blur
  • Roving Keyframes
  • Anchor Point/Pan Behind Tool

Layer Control

  • Trim, move, stack, and split
  • Sequence Layers
  • Looping Footage
  • Image Sequences
  • Frame Rate vs Time Stretch
  • Blending Modes
  • Effects and Solids
  • Blending Modes
  • Layer Styles
  • Masks

Transparency

  • Opacity
  • Masks
  • Shape
  • Feather
  • Expansion
  • Masking with the Pen Tool
  • Track Mattes

Effects

  • Effects and Presets Panels
  • Applying Effects to layers
  • Modifying Effects using the Effects Control Panel
  • Animating Effects
  • Changing order of Effects
  • Using Adjustment Layers

The Text Tool

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

Render Order

  • How After Effects processes compositions
  • Exporting files
  • Add to Render Queue
  • Add to Adobe Media Encoder Queue

Requirements

This course is intended for individuals seeking to professionally edit and manipulate video files, adding high-quality post-production effects.

Participants should be comfortable using a computer, such as copying and pasting or opening files and applications. An understanding of common video terminology is advantageous.

 14 Hours

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