After Effects Apprentice: 10 Time Games

Learn how to manipulate time (stop, slow, and speed up footage) in After Effects.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Software versions and exercise files

1. Frame Blending for Slow Motion

• Frame Mix mode
• Pixel Motion mode
• Pixel Motion Blue effect

2. Stop Motion and Freeze Frames

• The Preserve Frame Rate option
• Calming overactive effects
• Creating hold and freeze frames

3. Time Remapping

• Spotting hit points in time
• Keyframing time
• Refining speed changes with the Graph Editor

4. Quizzler

• Quizzler challenge: Looping a composition
• Quizzler solution

5. Idea Corners

• Idea corner one: Crossfading stop motion frames
• Idea corner two: Multiple playback speeds