Graphics Motion and After Effect Course

THE INTERFACE 

• Project Structure 
• Main Application window 
• Tools panel; Project panel 
• Importing footage 
• Footage panel 
• Transparency and alpha channels 
• Composition panel 
• Timeline panel 
• Layer panel 
• Info, Preview, Audio panels 
• Effects & Presets; Effect Controls; other panels 
• workspaces; stacked panels 
• Previewing 
• Work area 
• Preview behaviors 

BASIC ANIMATION 

• • Composition basics 
  • Starting a project, creating folders 
  • Importing footage; alpha channels 
  • Creating a new composition 
  • Adding Layers to the Comp panel 
  • Changing property values 
  • Animating Position, the motion path 
  • Previewing the animation 
  • Navigating between keyframes 
  • Managing the comp view; zooming 
  • Applying Easy Ease In 
  • Adding the foreground layers 
  • Duplicating and replacing layers 
  • More precise placement; snapping and grids 
  • Adding solid layers 
  • Applying, copying, and pasting effects 
  • Dragging footage to the Timeline panel 
  • Editing motion paths, spatial keyframe types 
  • Animating scale, rotation, and opacity 
  • Rendering 
  • Importing Layered Photoshop and Illustrator files 

ADVANCED ANIMATION 

• • Graph Editor Sets 
  • Keyframe basics 
  • Anchor Point overview 
  • Anchor Point tool 
  • Motion control moves 
  • Graph Editor 
  • Speed versus value graphs 
  • Panning and zooming time 
  • Editing graph curves 
  • Easing animations 
  • Improving the timing; Graph Editor Sets 
  • Separate Dimensions 
  • Motion Sketch 
  • Smoothing keyframes 
  • Auto-Orient 
  • Motion Blur 
  • Roving keyframes 
  • Time-Reverse Keyframes 
  • Hold keyframes 
  • Time display and time timecode 

 EDITING LAYERS AND EFFECTS 

• • Layers and stacking order 
  • Moving layers in time 
  • Trimming layers 
  • Trimming in the Layer and Footage panels 
  • Slip Editing 
  • Sequence layers keyframe assistant 
  • Looping footage 
  • Image sequences 
  • Changing the frame rate; Time Stretch 
  • Applying Effects 
  • Blending modes 
  • Effects and solids 
  • Effect motion path 
  • Effects & Presets; searching for effects 
  • Animation presets 
  • Behavior presets 
  • Layer styles 
  • Adjustment layers 
  • Filmic glow trick 
  • Property links with effects 
  • Third-party effects 
  • Higher-quality scaling 

CREATING TRANSPARENCY 

• • Masking tools; creating mask shapes 
  • Free Transform Points 
  • Masking in the Layer panel; Ellipse tool 
  • Makes feather 
  • Animating a mask path 
  • Creating a vignette; Mask Expansion 
  • Masking with the Pen tool 
  • Effecting a masked area 
  • Mask path interpolation; First vertex 
  • Mask Interpolation keyframe assistant 
  • Effects that can use the mask path; Scribble effect 
  • Mask Modes and multiple masks 
  • Mask Opacity 
  • Creating and editing Roto Bezier masks 
  • Audio Spectrum effect 
  • Rigid Mask Tracker 
  • Face Tracking 
  • Variable mask feathering 
  • Alpha Track Matte 
  • Nesting a track matte composite 
  • Luma Track Matte 
  • Animating matte layers 
  • Stencil Luma and Stencil Alpha 
  • Color Keying; Keylight; greenscreen 
  • Key Cleaner and Advanced Spill Suppressor 
  • Effects with track mattes and stencils 

TYPE AND MUSIC 

• • Creating basic text 
  • Creating text Animators; Range Selectors 
  • Animating text Position, Rotation, and Opacity 
  • Randomizong the order of characters 
  • Creating Cascading text; working with selection Shapes 
  • Setting the text Anchor Point 
  • Animating by words 
  • Title safe areas 
  • Animating text Blur and Tracking 
  • Text on a path 
  • Adding the Wiggly Selector 
  • Rendering with an alpha channel 
  • Multiple selectors and animators 
  • Using text animation presets 
  • Saving text animations as presets 
  • Editing photoshop text layers 
  • Adding audio to a comp 
  • Spotting audio 
  • Mixing and enhancing audio 

RENDERING 

• • Rendering under the hood 
  • Render templates 
  • Adobe Media Encoder 
  • Rendering movies 
  • Rendering sequences 
  • Issues that affect image quality 
  • Flickering 
  • Fields and interlacing