After Effects Guru: Creating Presets and Controllers

Learn how to build After Effects presets that you can use in future projects. Explore text presets and textures, discover ways to control multiple layers in a project, and more.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files

1. Creating Text and Shape Presets for Kinetic Text Animations

• Understanding how to work with text animators
• Creating a text animation preset , part 1
• Creating a text animation preset, part 2
• Creating custom vignette presets
• Creating fractal noise presets
• Creating a custom texture library
• Sharing presets

2. Understanding Control Layers

• Using a null object to control layered graphics
• Using a null object to control camera rotation
• An overview of expression controls
• Using the interpolation expression to link values

3. Control Layers in Action

• Setting up a Universal Color Control
• Using a checkbox control for visibility
• Using slider controls for wiggling a light's intensity
• Using prebuilt expressions to drive camera animation and depth of field
• Animating fractal noise to control layer visibility
• Creating a control layer to delay layer animation
• Saving your control layers and expressions

Conclusion

• Summary