Course Outline
- Introduction
- Special effects and After Effects
- Overview of the post production process
- Working with the After Effects interface
- Creating Workspaces for various Effects flow
- Overview of Composition and Timeline
- Project and Composition Settings
- Using Composition and Custom presets
- Resolution and pixel aspect ratio settings
- Adjusting After Effects Preferences
- Managing media in the Project panel
- Using quick search
- Importing Assets
- Overview of video, audio, image and graphics formats
- Video, audio, image and graphics issues
- Importing Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator files
- Importing Adobe Premiere Pro projects
- Working with Adobe Dynamic Link
- Special Effects Fundamentals
- Overview of the timeline and composition
- Adding, removing and managing layers
- Basic trimming and editing tools
- Working with time controls
- Layer properties
- Duplicate and split layers
- Timeline switches
- Working with in points, out points and duration bar
- Effects and Transparency
- Working with alpha channels
- Introduction to layer blending mode
- Using track matte
- Applying filters to layers
- Creating layer masks
- Working with mask expansions and feather
- Working with the Roto Brush tool
- Introduction to the motion tracker and stabilizer
- Working with presets
- Using Keyframes
- Overview of keyframes and motion
- Using keyframes in layers
- Adding, removing and editing keyframes
- Working with the pen and vertex tools
- Modifying motion paths
- Adding keyframes to filters
- Keyframe assistance interpolation
- Introduction to the graph editor
- Working with Text
- Using the type tool
- Working with the character and paragraph panels
- Applying layer styles (shadow, glow, bevel, emboss, satin)
- Applying animation effects to text
- Creating 3D text
- Exporting and Rendering
- Working with the render queue
- Render settings
- Output module settings
- Export formats
