Adobe After Effect

Adobe After Effects is a digital motion graphics and compositing software published by Adobe Systems, used in the post-production process of film-making and television production. Its main uses are the origination of 2D animation, visual effects compositing and finishing (image adjustment, color correction, etc…).

Course Outline:

Welcome to After Effects

• What is AE
• Project structure
• Interface and palettes
• Workspaces

Introducing animation

• Essential techniques and a first After Effects project

Animation techniques

• About key frames
• Anchor point essentials
• Composition basics
• Starting a project, creating folders
• Importing footage; alpha channels
• Creating a new composition
• Adding Layers to the Comp panel
• Changing property values
• Animating Position, the motion path
• Previewing the animation
• Navigating between keyframes
• Managing the comp view; zooming
• Applying Easy Ease In
• Adding the foreground layers
• Duplicating and replacing layers
• More precise placement; snapping and grids
• Adding solid layers
• Applying, copying, and pasting effects
• Dragging footage to the Timeline panel
• Editing motion paths, spatial keyframe types
• Animating scale, rotation, and opacity

Layer control

• Move, trim and slip
• Split and sequence
• Looping footage
• Image sequences
• Frame rate and time stretch
• Blending modes, effects and solids

Effects overview

• Finding and applying effects
• Effects animation and animation presets
• Adjustment layers
• Layer styles

Working with transparency

• Masks and mask animation
• Masking with the pen tool
• First vertex and path effects
• Multiple masks and opacity
• Rotobezier
• Track mattes and stencils

Type and type animation

• Working with type
• Text on a path
• Basic text animation
• Text animation presets

Rendering

• Render settings and the render queue
• Export options