Adobe After Effects Essentials Training Course

After Effects User Interface and Animation

• Understanding project files and their contents
• Overview of tools and panels
• Process of creating a composition
• Importing media assets into a project

Basic Animation

• Adding layers within a composition
• Navigating the timeline interface
• Understanding layer transform properties
• Keyframing various layer properties
• Utilizing RAM previews

Intermediate Animation

• Detailed keyframe manipulation and interpolation
• Using the Graph Editor
• Applying Motion Sketch and Smoother
• Configuring Auto-Orient and Motion Blur
• Working with Roving Keyframes
• Adjusting Anchor Points and using the Pan Behind tool

Layer Control

• Techniques for trimming, moving, stacking, and splitting
• Sequencing layers effectively
• Looping footage seamlessly
• Working with image sequences
• Differentiating between frame rate and time stretch
• Applying blending modes
• Utilizing effects and solids
• Managing blending modes
• Applying layer styles
• Creating and editing masks

Transparency

• Adjusting opacity
• Using masks
• Working with shapes
• Applying feathering
• Utilizing expansion
• Masking techniques with the Pen Tool
• Configuring Track Mattes

Effects

• Exploring the Effects and Presets panels
• Applying effects to specific layers
• Modifying effects via the Effects Control Panel
• Animating effect parameters
• Reordering effects in the stack
• Leveraging Adjustment Layers

The Text Tool

• Techniques for using the text tool
• Methods for animating text
• Applying text animation presets

Render Order

• Understanding how After Effects compiles the final output
• Processes for exporting files
• Adding items to the Render Queue
• Adding items to the Adobe Media Encoder Queue