Getting Started with After Effects CS4

Anyone wanting to create exceptional visual effects, extraordinary motion graphics, and exciting animated text will want to watch this course.

In this After Effects tutorial, we'll learn how to get started using the video editing software After Effects. Using After Effects we can quickly composite images, edit video, and create visual effects. We'll begin the tutorial by learning the basics of importing images and moving around the After Effects user interface. Then we'll do some basic compositing, masking, animation, and color correction. We'll finish with a project to composite a 3D render, create an interesting animated wipe, and render it into a video file. Software required: After Effects CS4 for project files.

• Course Overview 1min
• Introducing After Effects 29mins
• Starting a Project and Importing Assets 18mins
• Creating Comps and Adding Assets to Comps 27mins
• Modifying and Animating Layer Transform Properties 39mins
• Working with Text 21mins
• Working with Shapes 45mins
• Introducing Video Effects 41mins
• Using Some Specialized Effects and Layer Styles 47mins
• Working in “Classic” 3D Space 45mins
• Creating Specialized Text Animations 23mins
• Exporting (Rendering) a Comp 16mins