After Effects Training
After Effects
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Lesson 1 – The After Effects Interface
Project Structure
Application Window
Tools Panel
Project Panel
Importing Footage
Composition Panel
Timeline Panel
Layer Panel
Info, Time Controls, Audio Panels
Effects and Presets, Effect Controls, and Other Panels
Workspaces
Lesson 2 – Basic Animation
Creating Folders in the Project Panel
Creating New Compositions
Importing Files and Folders
Interpreting Alpha Channels
Adding Layers to the Comp panel
Changing the Background Color
Scrubbing Parameter Values
Interactively Transforming Layers
Animating Position
Navigating Between Keyframes
Editing a Keyframes Bezier Handles
Dragging Footage to the Timeline Panel
Animating Opacity, Scale, and Rotation
Aligning and Distributing Layers
Editing Spatial Keyframes, Motion Paths
Auto Orientation
Adding Solids
Adding Effects
Copying and Pasting Effects
Importing Layers Photoshop and Illustrator Files
Rendering
Lesson 3 – Advanced Animation
Adobe Bridge
Template Projects
Viewing Animated Properties
Graph Editor Overview
Panning and Zooming Time
Editing Graph Curves
Easing Animations
Editing Multiple Keyframes
The Work Area
Speed vs. Value Graphs
Motion Sketch
The Smoother
Auto-Orient
Motion-Blur
Roving Keyframes
Time-Reverse Keyframes
Anchor Point Overview
Pan Behind Tool
Motion Control Movies
Hold Keyframes
Copying and Pasting Keyframes
Time Display and Timecode
Lesson 4 – Layer Control
Layers and Stacking Order
Moving Layers in Time
Trimming Layers
Trimming in the Layer and Footage Panels
Slip Editing
Sequence Layer Assistant
Looping Footage
Image Sequences
Changing the Frame Rate
Time Stretch
Blending Modes
Effects and Solids
Effect Motion Path
Effects & Presets Panel
Searching for Effects
Animation Presets
Behavior Presets
Adjustment Layers
Non-square Pixels
Lesson 5 – Creating Transparency
Rectangular Mask Tool
Free Transform Points
Masking in the Layer Panel
Mask Feather
Animating Mask Shape
Creating a Vignette; Mask Expansion
Masking with the Pen Tool
Creating and Editing Bezier Masks
Effecting a Mask Area
Controlling a Mask Shape Interpolation
Using Effects with the Mask Path
Mask Modes and Multiple Masks
Mask Opacity
Creating and Editing RotoBezeier Masks
Audio Spectrum Effect
Alpha Track Matte
Nesting a Track Matte Composite
Effects and Track Mattes
Luma Track Matte
Animating Matte Layers
Stencil Alpha and Stencil Luma
Mask Shapes in CS3
Lesson 6 – Type and Music
Creating Basic Text
Creating Text Animators, Range Selectors
Animating Text Properties
Randomizing the Order of Characters
Creating Cascading Text
Working With Selection Shapes
Setting the Text Anchor Point
Animating by Words
Title Safe Areas
Animating Text Blur and Tracking
Text on a Path
Separating Fields
Adding the Wiggly Selector
Rendering with the Alpha Channel
Field Rendering
Adding Sound to a Comp
Add Comp and Layer Markers
Applying Text Animation Presets
Customizing Presets
Saving Text Animators as Presets
Editing Photoshop Text Layers
Per-character 3D Animators in CS3
Lesson 7 – Parenting and Nesting
Parenting, Nesting, and Expressions Defined
Assigning a Parent
Parenting, Opacity, and Effects
Parenting with Null Objects
Using Guides
Nesting Comps
Editing Precomps
Nesting a Common Source
Sizing Precomps
Locking Panels
Precomposing a Group of Layers
Precomposing a Single Layer
Render Order Explained
Splitting Work Between Comps
Using Precomposing to Re-order
Continuously Rasterized Layers
Lesson 8– Expressions and Time Games
Using the Pick Whip to Create Expressions
Altering Expressions
Stabilizing Shadows
Matching Value Ranges (the Linear Expression)
Looping Keyframes
Expression Tips
The Wiggle Expression
Expression Controllers
Keyframing the Wiggle Expression
Creating a Master Controller
Converting Sound to Keyframes
Frame Blending
Pixel Motion
Stop Motion Tricks
Preserve Frame Rates
Creating Freeze Frames
Time Remapping
Lesson 9 – 3D Space
Enabling Layers for 3d
Moving Layers in 3D Space
How Layers Stack in 3D
3D Rotation and Orientation
Multiplanning Effects
3D Motion Paths
Multiple Views
Camera Settings
Customizing 3D Views
Camera Track and Orbit Tools
Moving and Animating Cameras
Layer and Camera Auto-Orientation
3D Lights
Vignettes
Animating Lights
Casting Shadows
OpenGL and Fast Previews
Adding Dimension to Stills
Editing Stills for 3D
Lesson 10 – Track and Key
Creating Track Points
Important Tracker Options
Applying Stabilization
Compensating for Stabilized Footage
Fixing Bad Tracks
Tracking Interlaced Footage
Motion Tracking
Applying a Motion Track
Radio Wave Effect
Applying Tracks to Effect Points
Perspective Corner Pin Tracking
Bezier Warp Effect
Stabilizing Position, Rotation, and Scale
Interpolating Obscured Tracks
Working with High-Definition Footage
Keying Using a Keylight Effect
Improving Keyed Composites
Creating Garbage Mattes
Lesson 11 – Paint and Clone
Basic Painting
Erasing Strokes
Paint Channels
Paint Blending Modes
Brush Duration Bar
Animating Strokes
Revealing a Layer
Creating Organic Textures
Tablet Settings
Cloning
Transforming Strokes
Vector Paint Overview
Wiggle Control
Onion Skin Mode
Playback Modes
Lesson 12 – Exploring Brainstorm, the Puppet Tool, and Shape Layers
Using Brainstorm
Brainstorm and Keyframes
Puppet Pin Tool
Animating Puppet Pins
Puppet Overlap tool
Recording Puppet Animation
Puppet Starch Tool
Creating Shape Layers
Shape Stroke and Fill Settings
Editing Shapes
Multiple Shapes
Even-Odd Fill
Shape Effects
Shape Repeater
Compound Paths
Shape Gradients
Shape Pen Paths
Advanced Strokes
Animating a Stroke
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