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Course Outline

After Effects User Interface and Animation

  • Understanding project files and their contents
  • Overview of tools and panels
  • Creating a composition
  • Importing media into a project

Basic Animation

  • Adding layers to a composition
  • Navigating the timeline
  • Layer transform properties
  • Keyframing layer properties
  • RAM preview

Intermediate Animation

  • In-depth keyframe manipulation and interpolation
  • Using the Graph Editor
  • Motion Sketch and Smoother tools
  • Auto-Orient and Motion Blur
  • Roving keyframes
  • Anchor Point and Pan Behind tool

Layer Control

  • Trim, move, stack, and split operations
  • Sequencing layers
  • Looping footage
  • Working with image sequences
  • Frame rate vs. time stretch
  • Blending modes
  • Effects and solids
  • Blending modes
  • Layer styles
  • Masks

Transparency

  • Opacity
  • Masks
  • Shape properties
  • Feathering
  • Expansion
  • Masking with the Pen Tool
  • Track mattes

Effects

  • Effects and presets panels
  • Applying effects to layers
  • Modifying effects using the Effects Control panel
  • Animating effects
  • Changing the order of effects
  • Using adjustment layers

The Text Tool

  • Using the text tool
  • Animating text
  • Text animation presets

Render Order

  • Understanding how After Effects composites elements
  • Exporting files
  • Adding to the Render Queue
  • Adding to the Adobe Media Encoder Queue

Requirements

This course is designed for individuals seeking to professionally edit and manipulate video files, applying post-production effects to a high standard.

Participants should be comfortable using a computer (e.g., copying and pasting, opening files and applications) and will benefit from a basic understanding of common video terminology.

 14 Hours

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