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After Effects User Interface and Animation

  • Understanding project files and their components
  • Exploring Tools and Panels
  • Setting up a Composition
  • Importing media into a project

Basic Animation

  • Integrating layers into a composition
  • Navigating the timeline interface
  • Managing layer transform properties
  • Implementing keyframes for layer properties
  • Utilizing RAM preview

Intermediate Animation

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

Layer Control

  • Techniques for trimming, moving, stacking, and splitting
  • Sequencing layers
  • Looping footage
  • Handling image sequences
  • Distinguishing between Frame Rate and Time Stretch
  • Applying Blending Modes
  • Working with Effects and Solids
  • Refining Blending Modes
  • Applying Layer Styles
  • Creating and using Masks

Transparency

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

Effects

  • Exploring 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

  • Working with the text tool
  • Animating text elements
  • Using text animation presets

Render Order

  • Understanding how After Effects processes the final output
  • Exporting project files
  • Adding items to the Render Queue
  • Submitting jobs to the Adobe Media Encoder Queue

Requirements

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

You should possess basic computer proficiency, such as opening applications and managing files. A general understanding of common video terminology is also beneficial.

 14 Hours

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