Learning After Effects

Introduction

• Adobe After Effects puts design into motion
• Using the exercise files and relinking the footage

1. The Six Foundations of After Effects

• Start with the composition, where everything happens
• Layers are the building blocks of After Effects
• After Effects keyframe animation is a superpower
• 3D adds more than depth
• Effects: Right there in the name
• Render or it didn't happen

2. The Timeline Puts Ideas in Motion

• Create a new After Effects project
• Standardize and customize your After Effects UI
• Use the power of compositions wisely
• Take control of the After Effects viewers
• Explore After Effects layer controls
• Get creative combining layers
• Bring layers to life with keyframes
• Refine motion with timing and keyframe controls

3. Add Effects, 3D, and Output

• Enter the third dimension
• Create 3D within After Effects
• Freely experiment with effects
• Three basic effects types
• Add an adjustment layer
• Get those Render Queue settings right

4. Use Automated Tools to Integrate Text and Video

• Import a Premiere Pro edit
• Create cloudy skywriting text using Fractal Noise
• Pre-compose to solve timing and workflow blockers
• Create a complex moving matte automatically with Roto Brush
• Use layer styles to integrate text
• Match 2D motion with the Tracker
• Ramp speed with Time Remapping and Easy Ease
• Camera track a shot in 3D to match motion
• Integrate graphics into a 3D camera-matched scene
• Add a logo image sequence

5. Add Motion Graphics Animation with Shapes

• Block in motion with hold keyframes
• Create motion graphics with vector shape layers
• Extract a moving holdout matte from the sky
• Draw in a shape with Trim Paths
• Design a dynamic animation with a single shape
• Animate a displacement map to organically glitch graphics
• Publish the master composition to YouTube