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After Effects User Interface and Animation

  • Understanding project files and their contents
  • Exploring tools and panels
  • Creating new compositions
  • Importing media assets into a project

Basic Animation

  • Adding layers to a composition
  • Navigating the timeline effectively
  • Adjusting layer transform properties
  • Setting keyframes on 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
  • Implementing Roving Keyframes
  • Managing Anchor Points and the Pan Behind Tool

Layer Control

  • Trimming, moving, stacking, and splitting layers
  • Sequencing layers
  • Looping footage
  • Working with image sequences
  • Frame Rate vs. Time Stretch
  • Using Blending Modes
  • Applying Effects and Solids
  • Configuring Blending Modes
  • Utilizing Layer Styles
  • Creating masks

Transparency

  • Adjusting Opacity
  • Applying Masks
  • Shape adjustments
  • Feathering effects
  • Mask expansion
  • Masking using the Pen Tool
  • Implementing Track Mattes

Effects

  • Navigating 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

  • Utilizing the text tool
  • Animating text elements
  • Applying text animation presets

Render Order

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

Requirements

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

Participants should be proficient in basic computer operations, such as file management and application navigation. Additionally, a foundational understanding of common video terminology is highly beneficial.

 14 Hours

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