The After Effects Advanced course covers all the basic skills needed in the post production of professional quality video content.
After Effects Advanced - Course Topics
Animating text layers
- Animating text along a path
- Text Animators
- Animating individual characters
- Range selectors
- Advanced Range Selector features
Nesting and Dependancies
- Precomps
- Editing precomps
- Locking panels
- Using Null objects
Animation and Keyframes
- Different types of Keyframe
- Velocity
- Keyframe shortcuts
- Keyframe graph editor
- Proportional Adjustment
- Snapping to keyframes
- Keyframe Assistants
- Easy Ease
- Time revers Keyframes
- Animation and behaviour presets
- Keyframe Interpolation
Masks and Shapes
- Creating masks
- Importing masks from Illustrator
- Animating masks
- Shape layers
- Shape layer modifiers
- Repeater
Path Animation
- Animating along a vector path
- Auto orient to the path
- Creating a path from a nomination path
- Stroke a path
- Scribble in a path
- Other path effects
Effects
- Radio Waves
- Particle Effects
- Compound effects
Keying
- Using Keylight
- Using the Roto Brush
- Simple Wire Removal
Time and Tracking
- Time re-mapping
- Time warp
- Motion Tracking
- Tracking faces
- Perspective Corner pinning
- 3D Camera Tracking
Working with 3D
- Understanding 3D
- 3D Layers
- The 3D Axis
- Cameras
- Lights
- The Unified Camera tool
- Integration with Cinema 4D
Using Photoshop and Illustrator
- Working with Photoshop
- Working with Illustrator
Project Management
- Collect Files
- Consolidate Footage
- Remove Unused Footage
- Reducing your project