After Effects CS5 Getting Started

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After Effects CS5 Getting Started is a 2 day beginners course on using After Effects for compositing, animating, adding effects and exporting video.

Prerequisites

Course Overview

After Effects interface

  • Working with panels
  • Creating workspaces
  • Using workspaces

    • Creating a project.

  • Creating a Composition
  • Importing Media
  • Creating Layers from Footage Items
  • Positioning Layers in Time

    • Animating Layers and Effects

  • Animate Transform Properties
  • Duplicate Properties
  • Control Appearance of Vector Graphic
  • Create Animated Text
  • Apply Effects to Motion Graphics
  • Apply Text Animation Presets
  • Set Blending Modes for Layers
  • Create Solids.

    • Working with Keyframes

  • Working with different types of keyframes.

    • CS5 Files

  • Importing other CS5 file types
  • Animating files with parenting techniques

    • Sequencing Layers Precisely

  • Replacing Footage Within a Layer
  • Setting a Layer’s In and Out Points
  • Slip Edit Layers in Video Editing
  • Control a Layer’s Playback Rate
  • Loop a Footage Item
  • Nest Compositions and Pre-compose Layers

    • Creating Transparency

  • Assign Track Mattes
  • Create Masks

    • Nested compositions

  • Nesting compositions to create complex animations
  • Editing Nested compositions

    • Apply effects

  • Motion sketch
  • Motion blur
  • Animating with the puppet pin tools

    • Outputting Video Files

  • Create a Render Settings Template
  • Create an Output Module Template
  • Render a Composition
  • Export a Composition