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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
  • Layer transform properties
  • 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 operations
  • Sequencing layers
  • Looping footage
  • Image sequences
  • Frame rate versus time stretch
  • Blending modes
  • Effects and solids
  • Blending modes
  • Layer styles
  • Masks

Transparency

  • Opacity
  • Masks
  • Shapes
  • Feathering
  • 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 the order of effects
  • Using adjustment layers

The Text Tool

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

Render Order

  • How After Effects composites elements
  • Exporting files
  • Adding items to the Render Queue
  • Adding items to the Adobe Media Encoder queue

Requirements

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

Participants should be comfortable using a computer (e.g., copying and pasting, opening files and applications), and prior knowledge of common video terminology is advantageous.

 14 Hours

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