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After Effects CC For Beginners: How To Use Adobe After Effects CC - Intro to Intermediate!

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About After Effects CC For Beginners: How To Use Adobe After Effects CC - Intro to Intermediate!

00 AE Promo Video

01 Introduction

1 Creating a new Composition

2 Importing Files posted

3 Creating a layer

4 Understanding layers in the project panel

5 Creating and Editing Text Layers

6 Transforming a text layer

7 Understanding Key Frame Animations

8 Animating a Text Layer

9 Settings for smooth playback

10 Creating a solid layer

11 Working With Masks

12 Animating Masks

13 Creating a Solid With Bezier Points

14 Parenting Layers

15 Optiming AE preferences

16 Media and Disk Cache

17 Setting up Auto Save

18 Setting up Memory Usage

19 Creating 1080p preset Composition

20 Creating 4k Preset Composition

21 Creating 720p Preset Composition

22 Creating SD Preset Composition

23 Exporting Projects

24 Creating a 1080p export preset

25 Creating an alpha export preset

26 Using Drop Shadow on Text

27 3D Text Effects

28 Fast Blur Text Effect

29 Creating Lower Third Titles

30 Creating smooth transitions with easy ease keyframes

31 Exporting an alpha channel

32 Creating a Motion Graphic Title

33 Making The Motion Graphic look great

34 Fixing Banding in your Motion Graphic

35 Working with Pre Compositions

36 Using Effects on a Pre Composition

37 Using Masks to reveal your motion graphic

38 Working with Shape Layers posted

39 Introduction to 3d layers and cameras posted

40 Exporting SD files posted

41Exporting 4K files posted

42YT How To Add 3D Tracked Text To Footage In After Effects CC

43 Conclusion

What You Will Learn?

  • Welcome to our Adobe After Effects CC For Beginners class!.
  • This class is an introduction to Adobe After Effects CC.  It will get you started with opening the application for the first time, setting up the panel windows, creating your first project to teaching you all of the main features of After Effects and more!.
  • In this class you will learn how to:.
  • Start new projects in After Effects.
  • Navigate through the various panel windows.
  • Optimize After Effects for your specific computer.
  • Creating custom compositions.
  • Create and work with text files.
  • The basics to keyframe animating.
  • Understand motion graphics basics.
  • Apply effects.
  • Work with shapes.
  • Work with layers in the composition.
  • Create and use 3d layers and cameras.
  • Export 1080 and 4k video.
  • Create custom export presets.
  • and much more!.
  • Your instructor for this course is Will Bartlett.  He has been using After Effects since 2006 for commercials, feature films, and animated creative projects. He is the founder of an established video production company in Toronto, runs an online brand that's trained over 200,000 people in a wide range of educational content, has a filmmaking YouTube channel called Alli and Will, and has been the Visual Effects Supervisor and Lead Visual Effects Artist on hundreds of projects including feature films and television commercials..
  • Our team will be available to answer any questions and help you with any issues you may come across while making your way through the course..
  • Even if you don’t have After Effects you can still take advantage of this course by downloading a free trial from Adobe's website.  All you need is an account with them, which is free to sign up for!.
  • You will also get a 30-day money-back guarantee on this course, so you have nothing to lose!  Get started with Adobe After Effects CC today to create visually stunning and professional animations, titles, and motion graphics..