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After Effects User Interface and Animation

  • Understanding project files and their contents
  • Exploring tools and panels
  • Creating compositions
  • 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

  • Detailed keyframe manipulation and interpolation
  • Utilising the Graph Editor
  • Employing Motion Sketch and Smoother
  • Applying Auto-Orient and Motion Blur
  • Managing Roving Keyframes
  • Using the Anchor Point and 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
  • Utilising Blending Modes
  • Applying Layer Styles
  • Creating masks

Transparency

  • Adjusting opacity
  • Using masks
  • Working with shapes
  • Applying feathering
  • Using expansion
  • Masking with the Pen Tool
  • Implementing Track Mattes

Effects

  • Navigating the Effects and Presets panels
  • Applying effects to layers
  • Modifying effects via the Effects Control Panel
  • Animating effects
  • Changing the order of effects
  • Utilising Adjustment Layers

The Text Tool

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

Render Order

  • Understanding how After Effects processes the final output
  • 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, applying high-standard post-production effects.

Participants should be at ease using a computer, with the ability to perform basic tasks such as copying, pasting, and opening files or applications. Possessing an understanding of common video terminology is also beneficial.

 14 Hours

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