After Effects

Getting to Know the Workflow

• Creating a project and importing footage.
• Creating a composition and arranging layers.
• Adding Effects and modifying layer properties.
• Animating the composition.
• Previewing your work Rendering and exporting your composition.
• Customizing workspaces.
• Controlling the brightness of the user interface.
• Finding resources for using After Effects.
• Optimizing performance in After Effects.

Creating a Basic Animation Using Effects and Presets

• Importing footage using Adobe Bridge.
• Creating a new composition.
• Working with imported Illustrator layers.
• Applying Effects to a layer.
• Applying an animation preset.
• Previewing the Effects.
• Adding transparency.
• Precomposing layers for a new animation.

Animating Text

• About text, layers.
• Installing a font using Adobe Fonts.
• Creating and formatting point text.
• Animating with scale keyframes.
• Using a text animation preset.
• Animating imported Photoshop text.
• Animating type tracking and opacity.
• Animating an image to replace text.
• Animating a layer’s position.
• Using a text animator group.
• Adding motion blur.

Animating a Multimedia Presentation

• Applying an effect.
• Animating the background.
• Adding an audio track.
• Adjusting anchor points.
• Parenting layers.
• Precomposing layers.
• Animating precomposed layers.
• Keyframing a motion path.
• Animating additional elements.

Animating Layers

• Simulating lighting changes.
• Duplicating an animation using the pick whip.
• Simulating a darkening sky.
• Using a track matte to confine animation.
• Animating using the Corner Pin effect.
• Retiming the composition.

Working with Masks

• About masks.
• Creating a mask with the Pen tool.
• Editing a mask.
• Feathering the edges of a mask.
• Adding a reflection.
• Creating a vignette.
• Trimming the work area.
• Adjusting the timing.
• Replacing the content of the mask.

Working with Shape Layers

• Creating the composition.
• Adding a shape layer.
• Animating a shape.
• Creating a self-animating shape.
• Duplicating a shape.
• Creating custom shapes.
• Positioning layers with snapping.
• Animating using parenting.
• Using nulls to connect points

Performing Colour Correction

• Replacing the background.
• Colour-correcting using Auto Levels.
• Replacing the sky in the second clip.
• Adjusting color balance with levels.
• Adjusting color with the Lumetri Colour effect.
• Motion tracking the clouds.
• Colour grading.

Creating Motion Graphics Templates

• Adding properties to the Essential Graphics panel.
• Providing image options.
• Preparing a master composition.
• Setting up a template.
• Protecting the timing of a section.
• Exporting the template.

Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools

• About the Puppet, tools.
• Adding Position pins.
• Animating pin positions.
• Recording animation.
• Adding Advanced and Bend pins.
• Stiffening an area.
• Using the Puppet tools to animate the video.

Using the Roto Brush Tool

• About rotoscoping.
• Creating a segmentation boundary.
• Changing the background.
• Adding animated text.
• Fine-tuning the matte.
• Freezing your Roto Brush tool results.

Using 3D Features

• Importing a background.
• Extruding text in After Effects.
• Creating 3D text.
• Using 3D views Adding 3D lights.
• Adding a camera.
• Animating 3D text.

Working with the 3D Camera Tracker

• About the 3D Camera Tracker effect.
• Adding an effect.
• Previewing the composition.
• Tracking the footage.
• Creating additional text elements.
• Adding a final object.
• Creating a ground plane, a camera, and the initial text.
• Locking an image to a plane with a solid layer.
• Tidying the composition.
• Creating realistic shadows.
• Adding ambient light.

Advanced Editing Techniques

• Stabilizing a shot.
• Using single-point motion tracking.
• Removing unwanted objects.
• Creating a particle simulation.
• Retiming playback using the Timewarp effect.