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After Effects Introduction Training Classes Course Outline - MD - DC - VA - Online Live

Introduction to After Effects Course Outline

LESSON 1

  • Basic Animation
  • Creating folders in the project panel
  • Creating a new composition
  • Importing files and folders
  • Adding layers to the Comp panel
  • Changing the background color
  • Animating position
  • Navigating between keyframes
  • Dragging footage to the Timeline panel
  • Aligning and distributing layers
  • Editing spatial keyframes, motion paths
  • Auto orientation
  • Adding effects
  • Importing layered Photoshop/Illustrator files
  • Rendering

LESSON 2

  • Advanced Animation
  • Working with Adobe Bridge
  • Template Projects
  • Viewing animated properties
  • Graph editor overview
  • Panning and zooming time
  • Editing graph curves
  • Easing animations
  • Editing multiple keyframes
  • Motion sketch
  • Using the smoother
  • Motion Blur
  • Roving Keyframes
  • Time-Reverse Keyframes
  • Anchor Point overview
  • Pan Behind tool
  • Motion control moves
  • Hold keyframes
  • Time display and timecode

LESSON 3

  • Layer Control
  • Layers and stacking order
  • Moving layers in time
  • Trimming layers
  • Slip editing
  • Sequence Layers assistant
  • Looping footage
  • Image sequences
  • Changing the frame rate
  • Time Stretch
  • Blending Modes
  • Effects and solids
  • Effect motion path
  • Effects & Presets panel
  • Searching for effects
  • Animation presets
  • Behavior presets
  • Adjustment Layers
  • Non-square pixels

LESSON 4

  • Creating Transparency
  • Rectangular Mask tool
  • Free Transform Points
  • Masking in the Layer panel
  • Mask Feather
  • Animating a Mask Shape
  • Masking with the Pen tool
  • Effecting a mask area
  • Mask Opacity
  • Audio Spectrum effect
  • Alpha Track Matte
  • Effects and track mattes
  • Luma Track Matte
  • Mask shapes

LESSON 5

  • Type and Music
  • Creating basic text
  • Creating Text Animators
  • Animating text properties
  • Creating cascading text
  • Animating by words
  • Title safe areas
  • Animating text Blur and Tracking
  • Text on a path
  • Rendering with an alpha channel
  • Field rendering
  • Adding sound to a comp
  • Add comp and layer markers
  • Customizing presets
  • Editing Photoshop Text Layers

LESSON 6

  • Parenting and Nesting
  • Parenting, Nesting, and Expressions
  • Assigning a parent
  • Parenting, opacity, and effects
  • Parenting with Null Objects
  • Using guides
  • Nesting comps
  • Editing precomps
  • Nesting a common source
  • Sizing precomps
  • Locking panels
  • Precompositing a group of layers
  • Render order explained
  • Using precompositing to re-order

LESSON 7

  • Expressions and Time
  • Using the pick whip to create expressions
  • Altering expressions
  • Stabilizing shadows
  • Looping keyframes
  • The wiggle expression
  • Creating a master controller
  • Converting sound to keyframes
  • Frame blending
  • Pixel motion
  • Stop motion tricks
  • Preserve Frame Rate
  • Creating freeze frames
  • Time Remapping

LESSON 8

  • 3D Space and Dimension
  • Enabling layers for 3D
  • Moving layers in 3D space
  • 3D rotation and orientation
  • 3D motion paths
  • Camera track and orbit tools
  • 3D lights and Vignettes
  • Animating lights
  • Casting shadows
  • Adding dimension to stills
  • Editing stills for 3D

LESSON 9

  • Track and Key
  • Creating track points
  • Important tracker options
  • Applying stabilization
  • Fixing bad tracks
  • Tracking interlaced footage
  • Motion tracking
  • Radio Waves effect
  • Applying tracks to effect points
  • Perspective corner pin tracking
  • Bezier Warp effect
  • Working with high-definition footage
  • Keying using the Keylight effect
  • Improving keyed composites
  • Creating garbage mattes

LESSON 10

  • Using Paint and Vector Paint
  • Basic painting
  • Erasing strokes
  • Paint Channels
  • Paint Blending Modes
  • Brush duration bar
  • Animating strokes
  • Revealing a layer
  • Creating organic textures
  • Tablet settings
  • Cloning
  • Transforming strokes
  • Vector Paint overview
  • Wiggle Control
  • Onion Skin mode
  • Playback modes

LESSON 11

  • Using Brainstorm
  • Brainstorm with keyframes
  • Puppet Pin tool
  • Animating Puppet pins
  • Puppet Overlap tool
  • Recording Puppet Animation
  • Creating a Shape layer
  • Shape Stroke and Fill settings
  • Editing shapes
  • Multiple shapes
  • Even-Odd Fill
  • Shape Effects
  • Shape Repeater
  • Compound Paths
  • Shape Gradients
  • Shape Pen Paths
  • Advanced Strokes
  • Animating a Stroke

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