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After Effects User Interface and Animation

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

Basic Animation

  • Adding layers to a composition
  • Navigating the timeline interface
  • Manipulating layer transform properties
  • Keyframing layer attributes
  • Using the RAM preview

Intermediate Animation

  • Advanced keyframe manipulation and interpolation
  • Working with the Graph Editor
  • Utilizing Motion Sketch and Smoother
  • Applying 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
  • Handling image sequences
  • Distinguishing between Frame Rate and Time Stretch
  • Applying Blending Modes
  • Working with Effects and Solids
  • Blending Modes
  • Applying Layer Styles
  • Creating masks

Transparency

  • Adjusting Opacity
  • Using Masks
  • Manipulating Shape
  • Applying Feather
  • Adjusting Expansion
  • Masking using the Pen Tool
  • Implementing Track Mattes

Effects

  • Exploring the Effects and Presets Panels
  • Applying effects to specific layers
  • Modifying effects via the Effects Control Panel
  • Animating effect parameters
  • Reordering effects in the stack
  • Utilizing Adjustment Layers

The Text Tool

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

Render Order

  • Understanding how After Effects synthesizes the final output
  • Exporting finished files
  • Adding items to the Render Queue
  • Adding items to the Adobe Media Encoder Queue

Requirements

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

Participants should be comfortable using a computer for standard tasks such as file management and application navigation. A basic understanding of common video terminology is also advantageous.

 14 Hours

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