After Effects Introduction

After Effects Introduction

Projects

• Creating and saving Projects
• Time Display
• Importing Files
• Photoshop and Illustrator Files
• Alpha Channels
• Adobe Bridge
• Interlaced Footage
• Pixel Aspect Ratio (PAR)

Managing Footage

• The Project Panel
• Organising the Project Panel
• Proxies and Placeholders
• Viewing Footage
• The Footage Panel
• Cueing Motion Footage
• Safe Zones
• Viewing Transparency

Compositions

• Brain Storm ( creative Compositions)
• Creating Compositions
• Composition Settings
• Presets
• Advanced Composition Settings
• Background Colour
• Composition and Timeline Panels
• Setting The Time
• Adding Footage
• Insert and Overlay Commands
• Solid Layers
• Adjustment Layers
• Nesting Compositions
• Photoshop CS3 Integration

Keyframe Interpolation

• Interpolation Types
• Spatial Interpolation
• Motion Paths
• Graph Editor (overview)
• Value and Speed Graphs
• Temporal Interpolation Types
• Keyframe Assistants
• Roving Keyframes

Masks

• Viewing Masks
• Mask Paths
• Targeting Masks
• Creation Methods
• Closed and Open Masks
• Mask Shapes
• Rotobezier Masks
• Converting Masks
• Masks from Photoshop and Illustrator
• Mask Modes
• Keying With Keylight

Effects Fundamentals

• Effect Categories
• Preset Panel
• Applying Effects
• Effect Property Controls
• Effect Control Panel
• Effects to an Adjustment Layer
• Compound Effects
• Animating Effects
• Keying Options

Creating and Animating Text

• Creating Type
• Editing Type
• Formatting Characters
• Blending Characters
• Text Paths
• Animating Text
• Text Animation Pressed
• Per Character 3D Text Animation
• Animator Groups
• Range Selector
• Multiple Selectors and Selector Modes
• Wiggly Selector Options

Layer Basics

• Selecting Layers
• Stacking Order
• Naming
• Layer Commands
• Continuously Rasterizing a Layer
• Quality Settings

Layer Editing

• Layer Panels
• The Time Graph
• Trimming Layers
• Numerical Editing Controls
• Layers Speed
• Slip Edit
• Sequencing and Overlapping Layers
• Splitting Layers
• Markers

Properties and Keyframes

• Layer Property Types
• Global and animated Properties
• Spatial Controls
• Audio Waveform
• Audio Panel
• Animating Layer Properties
• Animation Presets

Playback, Previews and RAM

• Rendering and RAM
• Region of Interest
• Time Controls
• Live Update
• Fast Preview Option
• Open GL
• The Work Area
• Previewing Audio
• Rendering RAM Previews
• Purging The RAM Cache

Painting on a Layer

• Paint and Brush Tip Panels
• Stroke Options
• Brush Dynamics
• Animating Strokes
• Clone Stamp Tool

Advanced Layer Techniques

• Shape Layers (Vector Objects)
• Frame Blending
• Motion Blur
• Time Remapping
• Blending Modes
• Track Mattes
• The Puppet Tool

Complex Projects

• Nesting
• Flowchart
• Precomposing
• Collapsing Transformations
• Pre-rendering
• Using Null Objects

3D Layers

• Using 3D
• Camera Views
• Comp Panel Layouts
• Axis Modes
• 3D Position
• 3D material Options
• Lights
• Previewing 3D
• 3D Layer Order
• Photoshop Vanishing Point in After Effects

Output

• The Render Queue
• Making a Movie
• Multiple Output Modes
• Templates
• Single Frames
• Exporting to swf and flv
• Adobe Media Encoder
• Flash Integration
• Setting Flash Control Points
• Clip Notes (Client interaction Function)
• Video for Mobile phones