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Getting Started with After Effects for the Non-Video Pro

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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

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know before watching this course
  • Exercise files
1. Get Started in After Effects
  • After Effects preferences
  • Import files
  • About frame rate and frame size
  • Create and modify a composition
2. Keyframes
  • What is a keyframe?
  • Create and modify keyframes
  • Keyframe interpolation: Spatial
  • Keyframe interpolation: Temporal
  • The graph editor
3. Introduction to Text Animation
  • 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
4. Introduction to Masks
  • 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
5. Exporting Your Work
  • Save Frame As
  • Pre-render
  • Render Queue
  • Adobe Media Encoder queue
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Luisa Winters

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