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

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

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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.

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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.

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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!