After Effect CC

GETTING TO KNOW THE WORKFLOW

• Getting started
• Creating a project and importing footage
• Creating a composition and arranging layers
• Adding effects and modifying layer properties
• Animating the composition
• Previewing your work
• Optimizing performance in After Effects
• Rendering and exporting your composition
• Customizing workspaces
• Controlling the brightness of the user interfac

CREATING A BASIC ANIMATION USING EFFECTS AND PRESETS

• Getting started
• Importing footage using Adobe Bridge
• Creating a new composition
• Working with imported Illustrator layers
• Applying effects to a layer
• Applying an animation preset
• Previewing the effects
• Adding transparency
• Rendering the composition

ANIMATING TEXT

• Getting started
• About text layers
• Installing a font using Adobe Fonts
• Creating and formatting point text
• Using a text animation preset
• Animating with scale keyframes
• Animating using parenting
• Animating imported Photoshop text
• Animating type tracking
• Animating text opacity
• Using a text animator group
• Animating a layer’s position
• Timing layer animations
• Adding motion blur

WORKING WITH SHAPE LAYERS

• Getting started
• Creating the composition
• Adding a shape layer
• Creating a self-animating shape
• Duplicating a shape
• Creating custom shapes
• Positioning layers with snapping
• Animating a shape
• Creating nulls from paths
• Previewing the composition

ANIMATING A MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION

• Getting started
• Adjusting anchor points
• Parenting layers
• Precomposing layers
• Keyframing a motion path
• Animating additional elements
• Applying an effect
• Animating precomposed layers
• Animating the background
• Adding an audio track

ANIMATING LAYERS

• Getting started
• Simulating lighting changes
• Duplicating an animation using the pick whip
• Animating movement in the scenery
• Adjusting the layers and creating a track matte
• Animating the shadows
• Adding a lens flare effect
• Adding a video animation
• Rendering the animation
• Retiming the composition

WORKING WITH MASKS

• About masks
• Getting started
• Creating a mask with the Pen tool
• Editing a mask
• Feathering the edges of a mask
• Replacing the content of the mask
• Adding a reflection
• Creating a vignette
• Adjusting the timing
• Trimming the work area

DISTORTING OBJECTS WITH THE PUPPET TOOLS

• Getting started
• About the Puppet tools
• Adding Position pins
• Adding Advanced and Bend pins
• Stiffening an area
• Animating pin positions
• Using the Puppet tools to animate video
• Recording animation

WORKING WITH THE 3D CAMERA TRACKER

• About the 3D Camera Tracker effect
• Getting started
• Tracking the footage
• Creating a ground plane, a camera, and the initial text
• Creating additional text elements
• Locking an image to a plane with a solid layer
• Tidying the composition .
• Adding a final object
• Creating realistic shadows
• Adding ambient light
• Adding an effect
• Previewing the composition

RENDERING AND OUTPUTTING

• Getting started
• About rendering and output
• Exporting using the Render Queue
• Creating templates for the Render Queue

USING THE ROTO BRUSH TOOL

• About rotoscoping
• Creating a segmentation boundary
• Fine-tuning the matte
• Freezing your Roto Brush tool results
• Changing the background
• Adding animated text
• Outputting your project
• Review questions and answers

CREATING MOTION GRAPHICS TEMPLATES

• Preparing a master composition
• Setting up a template
• Adding properties to the Essential Graphics panel
• Providing image options
• Protecting the timing of a section
• Exporting the template
• Review questions and answers

USING 3D FEATURES

• Creating 3D text
• Using 3D views
• Importing a background
• Adding 3D lights
• Adding a camera
• Extruding text in After Effects
• Working with Cinema 4D Lite
• Integrating the C4D layer in After Effects
• Finishing the project
• Review questions and answers

WORKING WITH THE 3D CAMERA TRACKER

• About the 3D Camera Tracker effect
• Tracking the footage
• Creating a ground plane, a camera, and the initial text
• Creating additional text elements
• Locking an image to a plane with a solid layer
• Tidying the composition
• Adding a final object
• Creating realistic shadows.
• Adding ambient light
• Adding an effect
• Previewing the composition

ADVANCED EDITING TECHNIQUES

• Getting started
• Stabilizing a shot
• Using single-point motion tracking
• Using multipoint tracking
• Creating a particle simulation
• Retiming playback using the Timewarp effect

RENDERING AND OUTPUTTING

• Getting started
• About rendering and output
• Exporting using the Render Queue
• Creating templates for the Render Queue
• Rendering movies with Adobe Media Encoder