Mastering Adobe After Effects: From Beginner To Advanced

Mastering Adobe After Effects: From Beginner To Advanced
Published 7/2024
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920×1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz

Learn to Create Stunning Visual Effects and Motion Graphics with Adobe After Effects

What you’ll learn

Navigate the Adobe After Effects interface with confidence

Create and manage compositions and layers

Apply keyframe animations and understand advanced animation techniques

Utilize shapes, solids, and text layers to enhance video projects

Implement masks to edit and refine video elements

Employ track mattes, blend modes, and adjustment layers for complex effects

Animate in 3D space using cameras and null objects

Use expressions to automate animations and effects

Apply workflow tips to improve efficiency and productivity in After Effects

Requirements

No prerequisites

Description

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Use Cases of AE

Lecture 3 What to Expect

Lecture 4 How to use the course

Lecture 5 How to download Adobe AE

Section 2: AE Basics

Lecture 6 Know your way around AE

Lecture 7 Create a new composition

Lecture 8 Importing Media

Lecture 9 Important Tools

Lecture 10 Create a Perfect Square or Circle, change Stroke and Color

Lecture 11 The Timeline

Lecture 12 Layer Transformations

Section 3: Keyframes

Lecture 13 Animations – Adding and Editing Keyframes

Lecture 14 Mixing Keyframes and Animations

Lecture 15 Make Animations Better with Easy Ease and Motion Blur

Lecture 16 Advanced Animations with the Graph Editor

Lecture 17 Deep Dive: Controlling the speed and Value of a motion – Graphs

Lecture 18 Challenge: Bouncing Ball Animation

Lecture 19 Solution: Bouncing Ball Animation

Section 4: Shapes & Solids

Lecture 20 Working with Solid Layers

Lecture 21 Working with Shapes

Lecture 22 Layer Styles – Drop Shadows, Bevel & Emboss, and Gradients

Lecture 23 Shape Effects

Lecture 24 Deep Dive: Repeater

Lecture 25 Deep Dive: Trim Path

Lecture 26 Challenge: Lower Third

Lecture 27 Solution: Lower Third

Section 5: Text

Lecture 28 How to work with Text Layers

Lecture 29 How to Animate Text Layers

Lecture 30 How to combine & Animate Animator Properties

Lecture 31 How to animate Offset – Matrix Style

Lecture 32 How to Animate Text on Path

Lecture 33 How to use Shape layer as Path

Section 6: Masks

Lecture 34 How to create Masks – Masking Videos

Lecture 35 How to Edit Masks

Lecture 36 Overview of Mask Properties

Section 7: Important Skills

Lecture 37 Track Mattes: Make Layers Appear and Disappear

Lecture 38 Pre-Compositions: Grouping Layers Together

Lecture 39 Parentins: Grouping Layers Together

Lecture 40 Freeze Frames, Remapping, Reversing Time

Lecture 41 Blend Modes

Lecture 42 Adjustment Layer

Section 8: 3D in AE

Lecture 43 3D in After Effects + The Camera Tool and Views

Lecture 44 Camera Layer + Null Objects

Lecture 45 Animating in 3D Space

Lecture 46 Challenge: Dice Formation

Lecture 47 Solution: Dice Formation

Section 9: Mid Course Project

Lecture 48 Introduction

Lecture 49 Remove Green Screen with Keylight 1.2

Lecture 50 Effects and Effect Controls

Lecture 51 Some Effects for the Project

Lecture 52 Putting it Together

Lecture 53 Tweaking Audio

Lecture 54 Color Correction

Section 10: Expressions

Lecture 55 Adding an Expression

Lecture 56 How to Create Expressions with the Pick-Whip

Lecture 57 Replacing Source Text with Expressions

Lecture 58 How to add expressions manually – the loopOut() Expression

Lecture 59 The Wiggle Expression Demystified

Lecture 60 Interpolation : How to Transpose Property Values using Expressions

Section 11: Exporting

Lecture 61 Exporting H.264 Files

Lecture 62 Exporting with a Transparent Background

Lecture 63 Exporting Videos with Adobe Media Encoder

Section 12: Workflow Tips

Lecture 64 Keyframe Navigation

Lecture 65 How to use the Shy Switch

Lecture 66 Soloing a layer

Lecture 67 Work Area & The Preview Panel

Lecture 68 Colorizing Your Labels – Selecting and Grouping Layers

Lecture 69 Taking a Snapshot

Lecture 70 Separating X/Y Position