Adobe After Effects CC

Course Overview

Workflow

• About the Work Area
• Creating a project and importing footage
• Creating a composition and arranging layers
• Adding effects and modifying layer properties
• Animating the composition
• About the Tools panel
• About timecode and duration
• About the timeline panel
• Previewing your work
• Optimizing performance in After Effects
• Rendering and exporting your composition
• Customizing workspaces
• Controlling the brightness of the user interface

Basic Animation using After Effects and Presets

• Importing footage using Adobe Bridge
• Creating a new composition
• Working with imported Illustrator layers
• Applying effects to a layer
• Applying and controlling effects
• Applying an animation preset
• Previewing the effects
• Adding transparency
• Rendering the composition

Animating Text

• About text layers
• Creating and formatting point text
• Using a text animation preset
• Animating with scale keyframes
• Animating using parenting
• About parent and child layers
• Animating imported Photoshop text
• Animating type tracking
• Animating text opacity
• Using a text animator group
• Animating a layer's position
• Timing layer animations
• Adding motion blur

Working with Shape Layers

• Adding a shape layer
• Creating custom shapes
• Duplicating shapes
• Duplicating and modifying a composition
• Positioning layers with snapping
• Adding compositions to a 3D project
• Adding the finishing touches

Animating a Multimedia Presentation

• 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

Animating Layers

• Preparing layered Photoshop files
• About Photoshop layer styles
• Simulating lighting changes
• Duplicating an animation using the pick whip
• About expressions
• Animating movement in the scenery
• Adjusting the layers and creating a track matte
• About track mattes and traveling mattes
• Animating the shadows
• Adding a lens flare effect
• Adding a video animation
• Rendering the animation
• Retiming the composition

Working with Masks

• 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
• Zooming and panning by touch
• Adding a reflection
• Creating a vignette
• Using the rectangle and ellipse tools
• Adjusting the timing
• Trimming the work area

Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools

• 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

Using the Roto Brush Tool

• About rotoscoping
• Creating a segmentation boundary
• Fine-tuning the matte
• Refine soft matte and refine hard matte effects
• Freezing your Roto Brush tool results
• Changing the background
• Adding animated text
• Outputting your project

Performing Color Correction

• Adjusting color balance
• Replacing the background
• Color-correcting using auto levels
• Motion tracking the clouds
• Replacing the sky in the second clip
• Color grading

Using 3D Features

• Creating 3D text
• Using 3D views
• Importing a background
• Adding 3D lights
• Adding a camera
• Repositioning layers
• Extruding text
• Working with Cinema 4D Lite

Working with 3D Camera Tracking

• About the 3D Camera Tracker effect
• Repairing rolling shutter distortions
• Tracking the footage
• Creating a ground plane, a camera, and the initial text
• Creating realistic shadows
• Adding ambient light
• Creating additional text elements
• Locking a layer to a plane with a null object
• Animating the text
• Adjusting the camera's depth of field
• Rendering the composition

Advanced Editing Techniques

• Using Warp Stabilizer VFX
• Bicubic scaling
• Warp Stabilizer VFX settings
• Using single-point motion tracking
• Checking for drift
• Moving and resizing the track points
• Using multipoint tracking
• Mocha for After Effects
• Creating a particle simulation
• Understanding Particle Systems II properties
• About high dynamic range (HDR) footage

Rendering and Outputting

• 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

Prerequisites

Photoshop CS6/CC Introduction or equivalent knowledge and experience.