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After Effects User Interface and Animation

  • Understanding project files and their contents
  • Familiarity with 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 and Smoother
  • Auto-Orient and Motion Blur
  • Roving Keyframes
  • Anchor Point and 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
  • 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 the order of effects
  • Using adjustment layers

The Text Tool

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

Render Order

  • Understanding how After Effects compiles elements
  • Exporting files
  • Adding to Render Queue
  • Adding to Adobe Media Encoder Queue

Requirements

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

Participants should feel comfortable using a computer, with basic tasks such as copying and pasting or opening files and applications. Familiarity with common video terminology is also beneficial.

 14 Hours

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