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After Effects User Interface and Animation

  • Understanding project files and their components
  • Utilizing tools and panels
  • Creating a composition
  • Importing media into a project

Basic Animation

  • Incorporating layers into a composition
  • Navigating the timeline interface
  • Managing layer transform properties
  • Applying keyframes to layer properties
  • Utilizing RAM preview

Intermediate Animation

  • Advanced keyframe manipulation and interpolation techniques
  • Working with the Graph Editor
  • Using Motion Sketch and Smoother
  • Implementing Auto-Orient and Motion Blur
  • Managing Roving Keyframes
  • Working with Anchor Points and the Pan Behind Tool

Layer Control

  • Trimming, moving, stacking, and splitting layers
  • Sequencing layers
  • Looping footage
  • Working with Image Sequences
  • Distinguishing between Frame Rate and Time Stretch
  • Applying Blending Modes
  • Working with Effects and Solids
  • Utilizing Blending Modes
  • Applying Layer Styles
  • Creating Masks

Transparency

  • Adjusting Opacity
  • Applying Masks
  • Defining Shape
  • Using Feather
  • Managing Expansion
  • Masking using 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

  • Using the text tool
  • Animating text
  • Applying text animation presets

Render Order

  • Understanding how After Effects composites the final image
  • Exporting files
  • Adding items to the Render Queue
  • Adding items to the Adobe Media Encoder Queue

Requirements

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

Participants should be comfortable navigating a computer environment, performing tasks such as copying, pasting, and opening files or applications. Familiarity with common video terminology is considered a distinct advantage.

 14 Hours

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