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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
  • Working with layer transform properties
  • Keyframing layer properties
  • Using RAM preview

Intermediate Animation

  • Advanced keyframe manipulation and interpolation
  • Utilising the Graph Editor
  • Motion Sketch and Smoother
  • Auto-Orient and Motion Blur
  • Roving Keyframes
  • Anchor Point and Pan Behind Tool

Layer Control

  • Trimming, moving, stacking, and splitting
  • Sequencing layers
  • Looping footage
  • Working with 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 via the Effects Control Panel
  • Animating effects
  • Reordering effects
  • Using Adjustment Layers

The Text Tool

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

Render Order

  • How After Effects composites final outputs
  • Exporting files
  • Adding to Render Queue
  • Adding to Adobe Media Encoder Queue

Requirements

This course is tailored for individuals aspiring to professionally edit and manipulate video files, aiming to add high-standard post-production effects to their work.

Participants should feel comfortable navigating a computer, including basic tasks such as copying and pasting, as well as opening files and applications. Possessing a working knowledge of common video terminology is also advantageous.

 14 Hours

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