Adobe After Effects Introduction Training

UNIT 1: AFTER EFFECTS BASICS
· Launching After Effects, and creating new projects
· Understanding and navigating the After Effects interface
· Customizing settings, Preferences, and Workspaces
· Importing and organizing footage
· Creating Compositions
· Working with Layers: The art of compositing
· Understanding Layer types
· Animating Layers with the Transform properties
· Adding, editing, and animating effects
· Understanding the Timeline and SMPTE timecode
· Optimizing performance in After Effects
· Previewing, rendering, and exporting a Composition

UNIT 2: WORKING WITH MASKS
· Alpha channels, Masks, mattes, and keys - oh my!
· Creating Masks with the vector Shape and Pen Tools
· Creating Bezier Masks
· Editing corner and smooth points
· Feathering the edges of a Mask
· Adding Solids to create light reflections
· Applying Mask Modes and Blend Modes
· Creating vignettes
· Tips for creating masks

UNIT 3: ANIMATING SIMPLE 2D TEXT
· Title design: Understanding Text layers
· Using Typekit
· Creating and formatting point and area Text
· Using Text Animation Presets
· Property animation and keyframe interpolation in the Graph Editor
· Animating by Parenting
· Converting and animating Photoshop text
· Animating with Text Animator Groups
· Animating Text on a path
· Auto-orienting Layers on a motion path
· Working with Timeline Switches and Modes
· Maximizing Motion Blur options

UNIT 4: WORKING WITH SHAPE LAYERS
· Creating Shape layers
· Customizing Shapes
· Shape properties and animators
· Duplicating Shapes with Repeaters
· Creating logo and text effects with Shapes
· Advanced Shape Animation techniques

UNIT 5: AFTER EFFECTS DYNAMIC WORKFLOWS
· Packaging, prepping, and importing Illustrator files
· Working with Illustrator layers
· Packaging, prepping, and importing Photoshop files
· Managing Photoshop layers
· Dynamic Link: Integrating After Effects and Premiere Pro Projects
· MOGRT: Building Motion Graphics Templates in After Effects

UNIT 6: REAL-WORLD MOTION GRAPHICS
· Fundamentals of animation physics
· Bouncing, squashing/stretching, and more
· Leveraging velocity and speed in the Graph Editor
· Kinetic typography
· Simple Expressions: looping, conditionals, randoms
· Audio-powered animation with Expressions

UNIT 7: MOTION GRAPHICS FOR BROADCAST AND SOCIAL MEDIA
· Title/Action Safe Guides
· Creating luma and alpha Track Mattes
· Creating traveling mattes
· Adding Lower Thirds
· Animating opening titles and end credits
· Batch rendering social media exports in the Adobe Media Encoder: YouTube, Instagram, and more

UNIT 8: 3D MOTION GRAPHICS
· 2D Text and Layers in 3D Space
· Classic 3D, Ray-Traced 3D, and CINEMA 4D renderers
· Extruding, shading, and animating 3D text
· Applying Lights to 3D Layers
· Leveraging multiple 3D views
· Animating Light and shadow properties
· After Effects and Cinema 4D Lite
· Third-party After Effects plugin roulette

UNIT 9: BONUS TRACK - ADVANCED AFTER EFFECTS EXPORTS
· Wrappers vs Codecs
· Lossless vs Lossy Codecs
· Mezzanine Codecs
· File formats for Visual Effects
· File conversions for Raw Files
· Working with Raw Video + Re-Indexing color
· Working with and applying LUT files
· Metadata tagging for Virtual Reality
· Batching HFR Footage
· Exporting Offline and Online Editorial