After Effects Apprentice: 06 Type and Music

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Free Online Course: After Effects Apprentice: 06 Type and Music provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 4-5 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. After Effects Apprentice: 06 Type and Music is taught by Chris Meyer and Trish Meyer.

Overview
  • Learn how to create professional-looking type plus sophisticated type animations, including timing to music.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Overview
    • Software versions and exercise files
    1. Creating Type
    • Setting up
    • Entering, editing, and styling type
    • Using strokes
    • Working with paragraph text
    2. Animating Type
    • Setting a title
    • Creating a text animator
    • Selecting by character vs. percent
    • Animating position
    • Animating more properties
    • Exploring text transitions
    • Randomizing order
    3. Cascading Type
    • The Cascade recipe
    • Exploring offset plus selection shapes
    • Working with ramp selection shapes
    • Using character anchor points
    • Further refinements
    4. Animating by Words
    • Working with selections based on words
    • Anchor point grouping
    • Multiple ranger selectors
    5. Flowing Text
    • Using a vertical blur treatment
    • Animated tracking
    • Working with text on a path
    6. Per-Character 3D
    • Per-character 3D overview
    • Enabling per-character 3D
    • Exploring per-character 3D
    • Ease high and Ease low
    7. The Wiggly Selector (and More)
    • Separating fields
    • Exploring wiggly options
    • Animating wiggles
    • Rendering with alpha channels
    • Multiple animators
    8. Working With Audio
    • Adding audio
    • Audio levels
    • Spotting hit points
    • Timing to audio
    • Spotting dialogue
    • Timing dialogue to music
    • Mixing audio
    • Exploring audio refinements
    9. Using Text Presets
    • Applying text presets
    • Browsing presets in Bridge
    • Editing presets
    • Saving presets
    10. Sidebars
    • Working with Photoshop text
    • Keyframing source text
    • The Buzz Words preset
    • Rendering with alpha channels
    11. Typesetting Tips
    • Exploring faux styling options
    • Tracking and kerning
    • Using smart quotes
    • Using hyphens and dashes