Overview
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Learn how to create your first animation in Adobe After Effects.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Software versions and exercise files
- Creating a new project
- Creating a composition
- Importing sources
- Adding a layer to a comp
- Editing interactively in the Composition panel
- Editing numerically in the Timeline panel
- Animating position
- Adding more layers
- Editing motion paths
- Animating scale, rotation, and opacity
- Arranging layers
- Adding a solid
- Applying effects
- Rendering the final movie
- Creating variations of the design
- Exploring spatial keyframes
- Using hold keyframes
- Understanding common keyframe mistakes
- Using Auto-keyframe mode
- Working with action- and title-safe areas
- Using grids and guides
- Aligning and distributing
- Importing layered Photoshop files
- Understanding alpha channels
- Understanding the background color
- Avoiding problems with switches
- Exploring the Global Performance Cache
