Overview
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A tour of editing and enhancement techniques for After Effects layers.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Overview
- Software versions and exercise files
- Stacking and sliding layers
- Trimming layers in the Timeline panel
- Trimming in the Layer panel
- Pre-trimming and inserting layers from the Footage panel
- Slip editing
- Applying sequence layers to footage
- Using sequence layers with objects
- Example: Sequence layers and photographs
- Creating a new composition using sequence layers
- Understanding the importance of layer order
- Looping footage
- Importing a sequence of still images
- Using Time Stretch vs. altering frame rates
- Frame blending
- Applying effects
- Overview of blending modes
- Combining modes and effects
- Why apply effects to slides?
- Using the Effects & Presets panel
- Applying presets
- Working with behaviors
- Creating and saving presets
- Property links and effects
- Importing Photoshop files with layer styles
- Applying layer styles inside After Effects
- Using adjustment layers
- Working with adjustment layers and alpha channels
- Applying a filmic glow treatment
- Quizzler challenges
- Quizzler solution one: Pyrotechnic composite
- Quizzler solution two: Sequenced fades
- Idea corner one: Adjustment layer shapes
- Idea corner two: Creating a traveling glass bar
- Idea corner three: Creating sequences from filmstrips
- Looping footage by crossfading
- Working with effect point paths
- Brainstorming
- Working with pixel aspect ratios
- Higher quality upscaling
