Overview
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Get a quick start guide to After Effects, designed specifically for non-video professionals. Learn how to work with keyframes, animate text, create masks, and export your work.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Exercise files
- After Effects preferences
- Import files
- About frame rate and frame size
- Create and modify a composition
- What is a keyframe?
- Create and modify keyframes
- Keyframe interpolation: Spatial
- Keyframe interpolation: Temporal
- The graph editor
- Text in After Effects
- Source text
- Text on a path
- Using animators and the range selector
- Animating text position and rotation
- Animating text opacity and color
- Animating text tracking and character offset and value
- Adding an additional range selector
- Wiggly selector
- What is a mask?
- Mask properties
- Mask modes
- Animate a mask
- Use a mask for position keyframing
- Use masks from Illustrator and Photoshop
- Incorporate masks into your work with logos
- Save Frame As
- Pre-render
- Render Queue
- Adobe Media Encoder queue
- Next steps
