Getting Started with After Effects for the Non-Video Pro

3h 2mBeginner2020-09-15

Authors

Luisa Winters

Certified Instructor for Adobe and Apple

Course details

Adobe After Effects is the standard for motion graphics—a must for anyone who wants to create motion designs for the web, video, or any type of screen delivery. However, many nonvideo professionals feel intimidated by After Effects because it looks so different from what they’re used to. In this course, Luisa Winters covers the basics of After Effects in a nontechnical way. Explore the most essential component of animation—keyframes—and different keyframe interpolation techniques. Discover how to animate text and text properties such as opacity and color. Find out how to build and animate masks and use masks from other programs such as Illustrator and Photoshop. Finally, learn how to export your work for a variety of formats using the Render Queue and Adobe Media Encoder.

Topics include:
Importing files
Creating and modifying a composition
Creating and modifying keyframes
Keyframe interpolation
Using the Graph Editor
Animating text
Masking
Exporting your work

Skills covered

Motion GraphicsAfter EffectsRenderingMotion Graphics and VFXVisualization and Real-TimeAdobeAECProduct and ManufacturingLearningAnimation and Illustration

Concepts

Introduction

Welcome
What you should know before watching this course
Exercise files

Get Started in After Effects

After Effects preferences
Import files
About frame rate and frame size
Create and modify a composition

Keyframes

What is a keyframe
Create and modify keyframes
Keyframe interpolation - Spatial
Keyframe interpolation - Temporal
The graph editor

Introduction to Text Animation

Text in After Effects
Source text
Text on a path
Using animators and the range selector
Animating text position and rotation
Animating text opacity and color
Animating text tracking and character offset and value
Adding an additional range selector
Wiggly selector

Introduction to Masks

What is a mask
Mask properties
Mask modes
Animate a mask
Use a mask for position keyframing
Use masks from Illustrator and Photoshop
Incorporate masks into your work with logos

Exporting Your Work

Save Frame As
Pre-render
Render Queue
Adobe Media Encoder queue

Conclusion

Next steps