Adobe After Effects CC Quick Start

Knowing how to utilize the tools and opportunities in Adobe® After Effects® can take your video from amateur to professional. Award-winning filmmaker and author Chad Perkins will help you get started with utilizing this motion software. This course covers the basics of starting a project and how to make the most of the many ways to bring life to a video. You’ll learn:

• How to start a project and create a composition
• Working with layers
• Creating text
• Understanding animation
• Working with textures and shapes
• Creating 3D motion with lighting and camera
• Compositing techniques

Learn to enhance your video projects by animating text or creating transitional effects with this quick start into Adobe After Effects CC.

SOFTWARE USED:

Adobe After Effects CC 2018

• Class Introduction & What is After Effects
• Workflow Overview
• Importing Assets
• Creating Compositions
• Working with Layers
• The 5 Basic Properties
• Creating Text
• Understanding Animation
• Getting Efficient
• Adjusting Keyframes & Improving Animation
• Parenting Layers
• Using the Puppet Tool
• Animating Text
• Creating Shape Layers
• Adding Path Operations
• Using Effects
• Working in 3D
• Adding 3D Lights
• Working with 3D Cameras
• Nesting Compositions
• Masks and Track Mattes
• Camera Tracking
• Render Queue and Adobe Media Encoder