General

Adobe Course

Course Overview

This course is ideal for beginners to intermediate users of Adobe After Effects and contains the following modules:-

Getting Started

  • Preferences and Settings

The User Interface

  • The Project Window
  • The Composition Window
  • The Timeline
  • Time Controls

Simple Compositions

  • Importing Footage
  • Importing Graphics
  • Frame Size & Levels
  • Interpreting Footage
  • Creating a Composition
  • Adding Media to a Comp
  • Moving & Trimming Clips in a Comp

Keyframing Layers

  • Keyframing Parameters
  • Keyframes & Interpolation
  • Temporal Interpolation
  • Roving Keyframes
  • The Keyframe Assitant and Easy Ease
  • Motion Sketch
  • Using The Smoother
  • The Wiggler

Adjustment layers and 3D Layers

  • 3D Layers
  • Orientation and Rotation
  • Lights and Shadows
  • Properties of the Light

Advanced Layering

  • Editing Layers
  • Splitting a Layer
  • Frame Blending
  • Masking
  • Track Matte
  • Creating a Mask on a Layer
  • Feathering Mask Edges
  • Mask Opacity
  • Layer Compositing Modes
  • Applying Layer Modes
  • Nesting Compositions
  • Collapsing Transformations

Text layers

  • Creating a Basic Text Layer
  • Numbers
  • Path Text

Output and Rendering

  • The Make Movie Command
  • Render Settings
  • The Output Module
  • Rendering
  • The Export Command