After Effects Guru: Mastering the Timeline

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Free Online Course: After Effects Guru: Mastering the Timeline 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: Mastering the Timeline is taught by Richard Harrington.

Overview
  • Learn about time-saving features for navigating to specific timecodes, adjusting keyframes, changing layer behavior, and other tips for mastering the timeline panel in After Effects.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Welcome
    • Exercise files
    1. Navigating the Timeline
    • Using workspaces
    • Scrolling the timeline
    • Going to a specific time
    • Defining the work area
    • Advancing frames
    • Finding items in the timeline
    • Controlling playback in the timeline
    • Navigating your photo organization
    2. Adjusting the Timeline
    • Hiding, showing, and rearranging columns
    • Using shy layers to simplify the timeline
    • Controlling your timeline view by soloing layers
    • Organizing with labels
    • Controlling audio playback in the timeline
    3. Working with Keyframes
    • Essential animation shortcuts
    • Viewing all keyframes
    • Showing only audio levels and audio waveforms
    • Viewing only effects properties
    • Retiming keyframes
    • Using the graph editor to refine keyframes
    • Using animation assistants to refine keyframes
    • Navigating keyframes in the timeline
    • How to nudge keyframes
    • Keyframing with motion sketch
    4. Switches Revealed
    • Improving playback with Draft 3D
    • Smoothing movement with motion blur
    • Scaling vector objects with the continuously rasterize switch
    • The collapse transformations switch
    • Smoother speed changes with frame blending
    • Working with adjustment layers
    • The effect of the layer quality and sampling switch
    5. Controlling Layers
    • Choosing a specific layer
    • Moving a layer's in and out points
    • Trimming a layer's duration with in and out points
    • Nudging a layer in the timeline
    • Changing the stacking order for a layer
    • Splitting a layer
    • Renaming layers
    • Locking layers in After Effects
    • Controlling layers with a numeric keypad
    • Animating with the Sequence Layers command
    6. Working with Layer Modes
    • Getting results with blending modes
    • Preserving underlying transparency
    • Using track mattes
    • Animating with parenting
    7. Using Composition and Layer Markers
    • Composition markers
    • Setting a duration for markers
    • Tapping out the beat
    Conclusion
    • What's next?