Overview
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Understand essential After Effects tools and techniques and learn how to create motion graphics, visual effects, and more
Syllabus
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Introduction
- After Effects essential training
- Before we start
- Using the exercise files
- Shape layer overview
- Transformation levels
- Shape layers vs. masks
- Repeating elements
- Path operators
- Precomposing and nesting
- Collapse transformations
- Blending modes
- Understanding keyframe interpolations
- Adding and adjusting keys
- Using the Graph Editor: Speed
- Using the Graph Editor: Value
- Altering speeds with time remapping
- Anchor point fundamentals
- Parenting
- Using expressions to loop animation
- Essential Graphics panel
- Essential properties
- Creating and animating masks
- Using track mattes
- Using the Roto Brush tool
- Mocha AE crash course
- Keylight 101
- Activating Adobe fonts
- Using the type tool
- Using text animators
- Working with effects
- Introducing the Puppet tool
- Limiting effects with mask references
- Content-Aware Fill
- Intro concepts to 3D in After Effects
- 3D navigation
- Cameras and lights
- 3D layer properties
- Intro to Cinema4D renderer
- Creating extruded 3D text
- Creating extruded 3D shapes
- Cinema4D Lite overview
- Using Cineware
- Point tracking
- Warp Stabilizer
- Mocha AE planar tracking
- Camera tracking
- Export to disk using the Render Queue
- Rendering with Media Encoder
- Next steps
