Adobe After Effects

3-Day Outline

Workflow

• Creating a project & importing footage
• Creating a composition & arranging layers
• Adding effects & modifying layer properties
• Animating the composition
• Previewing work & Optimizing performance
• Rendering & exporting your composition
• Customizing the workspace
• Controlling the brightness of user interface
• Using Dynamic Link with Premiere Pro

Basic animation

• Importing footage using Adobe Bridge
• Creating the composition
• Working with imported Illustrator layers
• Applying effects to a layer
• Applying an animation preset
• Previewing the effects
• Adding transparency
• Rendering the composition

Animating text

• About text layers
• Creating & formatting point text
• Using text animation preset
• Animating with scale keyframes
• Animating using parenting
• Animating imported Photoshop text
• Animating text using a path animation preset
• Animating type tracking
• Animating text opacity
• Using a text animator group
• Cleaning up the path animation
• Animating a nontext layer along a motion path
• Adding motion blur
• Exporting as template for Premiere Pro

Shape layers

• Adding a shape layer
• Creating custom shapes
• Incorporating video & audio layers
• Applying a Cartoon effect
• Adding a title bar
• Using Brainstorm to experiment

Animating a multimedia presentation

• Animating scenery using parenting
• Anchor point adjustments
• Masking video using vector shapes
• Keyframing a motion path
• Animating additional elements
• Applying an effect
• Creating an animated slide show
• Adding an audio track

Animating Layers

• Simulating lighting changes
• Duplicating an animation using the pick whip
• Animating movement in scenery
• Adjusting the layers and creating a track matte
• Animating the shadows
• Adding a lens flare effect
• Animating the clock
• Retiming the composition

Working with masks

• Creating a mask with the Pen tool
• Editing a mask
• Feathering the edges of a mask
• Replacing the content of a mask
• Adding a reflection
• Creating a vignette
• Adjusting the color

Animating with Puppet tools and Character Animator

• Deform pins
• Defining areas of overlap
• Stiffening an area
• Animating pin positions
• Character Animator layer naming conventions
• Recording animation

Performing Color Correction

• Adjusting color balance
• Replacing the background
• Removing unwanted elements
• Correcting a range of color
• Warming colors with the Photo Filter effect

Using 3D Features

• Animating 3D objects
• Adding reflections to 3D objects
• Animating a camera
• Adjusting a layer timing
• Using 3D lights
• Adding effects
• Adding a motion blur
• Previewing the entire animation
• Using Cinema 4D with AE

Working with 3D Camera Tracking

• 3D Camera tracker effect
• Tracking footage
• Creating a camera and the initial text
• Creating realistic shadows
• Adding ambient light
• Creating additional text elements
• Locking a layer to a plane with a null object
• Animating the text
• Adjusting the camera’s depth of field

Advanced editing techniques

• Using motion stabilization
• Using single-point motion tracking
• Using multipoint tracking
• Creating a particle simulation
• Retiming playback using the Timewarp effect

Using Expressions

• Creating expressions to link settings
• Creating looping and ping-pong animations

Rendering and outputting

• Creating templates for the rendering process
• Creating templates for output modules
• Exporting to different output media