After Effects Guru: Creating Presets and Controllers

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Free Online Course: After Effects Guru: Creating Presets and Controllers provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 1-2 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 Guru: Creating Presets and Controllers is taught by Nick Harauz.

Overview
  • Learn how to build After Effects presets that you can use in future projects. Explore text presets and textures, discover ways to control multiple layers in a project, and more.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Welcome
    • What you should know before watching this course
    • Using the exercise files
    1. Creating Text and Shape Presets for Kinetic Text Animations
    • Understanding how to work with text animators
    • Creating a text animation preset , part 1
    • Creating a text animation preset, part 2
    • Creating custom vignette presets
    • Creating fractal noise presets
    • Creating a custom texture library
    • Sharing presets
    2. Understanding Control Layers
    • Using a null object to control layered graphics
    • Using a null object to control camera rotation
    • An overview of expression controls
    • Using the interpolation expression to link values
    3. Control Layers in Action
    • Setting up a Universal Color Control
    • Using a checkbox control for visibility
    • Using slider controls for wiggling a light's intensity
    • Using prebuilt expressions to drive camera animation and depth of field
    • Animating fractal noise to control layer visibility
    • Creating a control layer to delay layer animation
    • Saving your control layers and expressions
    Conclusion
    • Summary