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Adobe® After Effects® CC® Quick Start

 

Adobe® After Effects® CC® Quick Start

 

Class Description

Knowing how to utilize the tools and opportunities in After Effects® can take your video from amateur to professional. Award-winning filmmaker and author Chad Perkins will help you get started with utilizing this motion software. This course covers the basics of starting a project and how to make the most of the many ways to bring life to a video. You’ll learn:

  • How to start a project and create a composition
  • Working with layers
  • Creating text
  • Understanding animation
  • Working with textures and shapes
  • Creating 3D motion with lighting and camera
  • Compositing techniques

Learn to enhance your video projects by animating text or creating transitional effects with this quick start into Adobe® After Effects® CC®.

Software used: Adobe® After Effects® CC®

Lessons

  1. Class Introduction & What is After Effects
  2. Workflow Overview
  3. Importing Assets
  4. Creating Compositions
  5. Working with Layers
  6. The 5 Basic Properties
  7. Creating Text
  8. Understanding Animation
  9. Getting Efficient
  10. Adjusting Keyframes & Improving Animation
  11. Parenting Layers
  12. Using the Puppet Tool
  13. Animating Text
  14. Creating Shape Layers
  15. Adding Path Operations
  16. Using Effects
  17. Working in 3D
  18. Adding 3D Lights
  19. Working with 3D Cameras
  20. Nesting Compositions
  21. Masks and Track Mattes
  22. Camera Tracking
  23. Render Queue and Adobe Media Encoder

Reviews

a Creativelive Student
 

If you want to get into learning AE. Watch this video first. I've watched many AE tutorials and I still had many 'why' questions. Chad is great and explaining things and even uses great analogies​ so you understand what is going on. I highly recommend it. Thank you.

Chaka Akbar
 

Excellent introduction to After Effects. Definitely delivers on being a quick start to the features and capabilities of the software. Chad's passion and enthusiasm really shines through.

Nicholas Jacobson
 

Chad is an incredible teacher. He makes what would seem like daunting projects and tasks to the common person become both possible and even simple! He keeps his audience engaged by taping into one's inner child of creativity. Keep your hand hovering over the pause button because this presentation is crammed full of incredible information. Thanks again, Chad and all the folks at CreativeLive in Seattle!