After Effects Hidden Gems

Chris and Trish Meyer reveal hidden gems they've accumulated in their 20+ years of working with After Effects. Learn useful tricks, shortcuts, and features.

Introduction

• Welcome

Gems from June 2016

• Preserve transparency

Gems from May 2016

• Illustrator artboards
• Understanding image resampling
• Retiming Sequences
• Collapsed adjustment layers

Gems from April 2016

• Browsing presets in Bridge
• Adjustment layers: The basics
• Adjustment layers: Beyond the basics
• Converting footage to comps

Gems from March 2016

• Divide mode
• Difference mode
• Adding comments to projects
• Edit this; look at that
• Tricks with keyframes

Gems from February 2016

• Smoother
• Linear expression
• Expression controls
• 3D camera shake

Gems from January 2016

• Puppet overlaps
• Puppets and multiple shapes
• Slip editing
• Adobe Typekit

Gems from December 2015

• Hold keyframes
• Color palettes
• Comp proxies
• Rendering at a higher bit depth

Gems from November 2015

• Automatic fades
• Wiggle behaviors
• Layer styles
• Roving keyframes

Gems from October 2015

• Pixel Motion Blur
• Fading multiple layers
• Transforming the render order
• Basic behaviors

Gems from September 2015

• Wiggle Paths
• Preserve Frame Rate
• Stereo Mixer

Gems from August 2015

• Stopping previews
• Swarming shapes
• Revealing curved shapes
• Write-on
• Dashed lines

Gems from July 2015

• Cleaning up projects
• Illuminating dark layers
• Adjustment lights
• Motion paths for effect points

Gems from June 2015

• Conform frame rate
• Working color space
• Grow Bounds
• Replace source
• Sequence layers

Gems from May 2015

• Temporary tools
• Guide Layers
• Set first vertex
• Cropping on output

Gems from April 2015

• Alpha Add mode
• Effects instancing
• Null objects and tracking