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Duration 14 hours
Course Outline
After Effects User Interface and Animation
- Understanding project files and their contents
- Exploring tools and panels
- Creating a new composition
- Importing media assets into a project
Basic Animation
- Adding layers to a composition
- Navigating the timeline interface
- Understanding layer transform properties
- Applying keyframes to layer properties
- Utilising RAM preview
Intermediate Animation
- Advanced keyframe manipulation and interpolation
- Working with the Graph Editor
- Using Motion Sketch and Smoother
- Applying Auto-Orient and Motion Blur
- Implementing Roving Keyframes
- Managing Anchor Points and the Pan Behind Tool
Layer Control
- Techniques for trimming, moving, stacking, and splitting
- Sequencing layers effectively
- Looping footage
- Working with Image Sequences
- Frame Rate adjustments versus Time Stretch
- Applying Blending Modes
- Working with Effects and Solids
- Applying Blending Modes
- Configuring Layer Styles
- Creating and editing Masks
Transparency
- Adjusting Opacity
- Using Masks
- Modifying Shape
- Applying Feather
- Adjusting Expansion
- Masking with the Pen Tool
- Utilising Track Mattes
Effects
- Navigating the Effects and Presets panels
- Applying effects to layers
- Modifying effects via the Effects Control panel
- Animating effects
- Reordering effects
- Using Adjustment Layers
The Text Tool
- Utilising the text tool
- Animating text elements
- Applying text animation presets
Render Order
- Understanding how After Effects compiles the final output
- Exporting files
- Adding items to the Render Queue
- Adding items to the Adobe Media Encoder Queue
Requirements
This course is tailored for individuals seeking to professionally edit and manipulate video files, aiming to apply post-production effects to a high standard.
Participants should be comfortable using a computer for basic tasks such as copying, pasting, and opening files or applications. Additionally, having a foundational understanding of common video terminology is highly beneficial.
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