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After Effects User Interface and Animation

  • Understanding project files and their structure
  • Overview of tools and panels
  • Setting up a new composition
  • Importing media assets into a project

Basic Animation

  • Integrating layers into a composition
  • Navigating the timeline efficiently
  • Manipulating layer transform properties
  • Implementing keyframes on layer properties
  • Utilizing RAM preview

Intermediate Animation

  • Detailed keyframe manipulation and interpolation techniques
  • Using the Graph Editor
  • Applying Motion Sketch and Smoother
  • Configuring Auto-Orient and Motion Blur
  • Working with Roving Keyframes
  • Adjusting Anchor Points and using the Pan Behind tool

Layer Control

  • Trims, moves, stacking, and splitting layers
  • Sequencing layers
  • Looping footage
  • Managing image sequences
  • Comparing frame rate and time stretch
  • Exploring blending modes
  • Applying effects and working with solids
  • Advanced blending mode applications
  • Utilizing layer styles
  • Creating and refining masks

Transparency

  • Adjusting opacity
  • Refining masks
  • Manipulating shapes
  • Applying feather effects
  • Expanding mask boundaries
  • Masking using the Pen Tool
  • Implementing Track Mattes

Effects

  • Navigating the Effects and Presets panels
  • Applying effects to specific layers
  • Modifying effect parameters via the Effects Control panel
  • Animating effects over time
  • Adjusting the order of effects
  • Leveraging Adjustment Layers

The Text Tool

  • Using the text tool for editing
  • Animating text elements
  • Applying text animation presets

Render Order

  • Understanding how After Effects compiles the final output
  • Exporting project files
  • Adding tasks to the Render Queue
  • Adding tasks to the Adobe Media Encoder Queue

Requirements

This course is specifically designed for professionals seeking to edit and manipulate video files at a professional level, ensuring that post-production effects are applied to a high standard.

Participants should possess basic computer proficiency, including the ability to copy and paste, as well as open and manage files and applications. Additionally, a working knowledge of common video terminology is highly beneficial.

 14 Hours

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