Beginners After Effect Basics Course, Live Class, Tutorials

• RGB Color Model
• Frame size
• Resolution
• Pixel aspect ratio
• Alpha channels
• Frame rate
• Time code
• Interpreting footage

• About the After Effects work area
• Creating a project and importing footage
• Creating a composition and arranging layers
• About layers
• Adding effects and modifying layer properties
• Animating the composition
• About the Tools panel
• About timecode and duration
• About the Timeline panel
• Precomposing
• Previewing your work
• Optimizing performance in After Effects
• Rendering and exporting your composition
• Customizing workspaces
• Controlling the brightness of the user interface
• Finding resources for using After Effects

• Importing footage using Adobe Bridge
• Creating a new composition
• Importing video clips
• Importing a sequence of stills -Importing multilayered photoshop and illustrator files
• Pan Behind tool for layers
• Creating a new composition
• Applying effects to a layer
• Applying and controlling effects
• Applying an animation preset
• Changing parameters globally
• Creating keyframes
• Temporal and spatial Interpolation
• Roving in time for spatial properties
• Previewing the effects
• Adding transparency
• Rendering the composition

• About text layers
• Installing a font using Typekit
• Creating and formatting point text
• Creating and formatting paragraph text
• Using a text animation preset
• Animating with scale keyframes
• Animating imported Photoshop text
• Animating type tracking
• Animating text opacity
• Using a text animator group
• About text animator groups
• Animating a layer's position
• Animating a range
• Adding motion blur

• Adding a shape layer
• Creating custom shapes
• Creating stars
• Default properties of shape layers
• Add properties
• Creating Groups
• Stack your shapes & properties

• Using Creative Cloud Libraries in After Effects
• Adjusting anchor points
• Parenting layers
• Precomposing layers
• Keyframing a motion path
• Animating additional elements
• Applying an effect
• About solid-color layers
• Animating precomposed layers
• Animating the background
• Adding an audio track
• Supported audio file formats

• About masks
• Creating a mask with the Pen tool
• Editing a mask
• About mask modes
• Creating a Bezier mask
• Feathering the edges of a mask
• Replacing the content of the mask
• Using masks from Illustrator and Photoshop
• Masks for spatial keyframes
• Pan Behind tool for masks
• Zooming and panning by touch
• Adding a reflection
• Creating a vignette
• Using the Rectangle and Ellipse tools
• Adjusting the timing
• Tips for creating masks
• Trimming the work area

• About the Puppet tools
• Adding Deform pins
• Defining areas of overlap
• Stiffening an area
• Animating pin positions
• Squash and stretch
• Recording animation
• Act it out with Adobe Character Animator

• Time remapping
• Motion sketch
• The smoother
• The wiggler
• Auto orient
• Splitting a layer
• Adjustment layers
• Time remapping

• Creating templates for the Render Queue
• About compression
• Exporting using the Render Queue
• Preparing movies for mobile devices
• Rendering movies with Adobe Media Encoder
• Preparing a movie for broadcast output