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Fundamentals of Motion Graphics

• RGB Color Model
• Frame Size & Frame Rate Settings
• Resolution with Pixel Aspect Ratio and Alpha Channel
• Time Code & Interpreting Footage

Getting to Know the Workflow

• How After Effects Works
• Overview of panels
• 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
• Customizing workspaces
• Controlling the brightness of the user interface

Creating a Basic Animation Using Effects and Presets

• Importing footage using Adobe Bridge
• Importing video clips and Importing stills
• Importing a sequence of stills (interpreting)
• Importing multilayered photoshop and illustrator files
• Creating a new composition
• Applying effects to a layer
• Creating keyframes
• Keyframe interpolation: auto, continuous, and bezier interpolation
• Temporal and spatial Interpolation
• Roving in time for spatial properties
• Creating and applying an animation preset
• Previewing your work

Working With Masks

• About masks
• Creating a mask with the Pen tool & Editing a mask
• Feathering the edges of a mask
• Replacing the content of the mask
• Mask interpolation
• Using masks from Illustrator and Photoshop
• Masks for spatial keyframes

Animating Text

• About text layers
• Creating and formatting point text vs paragraph text
• Using a text animation preset & using a text animator
• Text on a path
• Animating imported Photoshop text
• Animating text using a path animation preset
• Adding properties, Adding a range selector
• Using a text animator group

Working with Shape Layers

• Adding a shape layer
• Creating custom shapes
• Creating stars
• Default properties of shape layers
• Add properties
• Creating Groups
• Stack your shapes & properties
• Using Brainstorm to experiment

Other Effects

• Time remapping
• Motion sketch
• Auto orient
• Splitting a layer &
• Adjustment layers
• The effects and presets panel

Distorting Object

• About the Puppet tools
• Adding Deform pins
• Defining areas of overlap
• Stiffening an area
• Animating pin positions
• Recording animation

Rendering and Output

• Creating templates for the Render Queue
• Exporting using the Render Queue
• Rendering movies with Adobe Media Encoder

Parenting

• Understanding Parenting
• Simple Pick whipping
• Parenting to a null
• Using Parenting for positioning
• Using Parenting in Special Effects

Other Effects

• Time remapping
• Understanding Compound Effects
• Gradient Wipe
• Displacement Map

Transfer Controls

• Understanding Layer Blending Modes and how to change those using shortcuts
• Using Track Mattes
• Understanding pre composing and nesting
• Stencil and Silhouette
• Preserve Transparency

INTRODUCTION TO THE 3D ENGINE

• Introduction to Camera Angles & Monitor Views
• Creating 3D Text with Lights & Shadows
• Setting Up a 3D Scene
• Animating a 3D Scene
• Working with Vanishing Point.

AUDIO EDITING AND MIXING Audio Clips

• Tracks and Master Volume
• Adjusting Audio Clip Levels in the Timeline
• Essential Sound Panel
• Auto Ducking Music to Dialogue

SPEED CHANGE

• Changing Speed
• Reverse Speed
• Time Stretch Tool
• Variable Time Remapping

ADVANCED EDITING

• Arranging a Storyboard and Automating to the Timeline Shuffle Edits
• Advanced Editing Tools Introduction to Nesting J/L edits (Separate Audio and Video)
• Replacing Clips and Retaining FX Attributes Picture in a Picture

WORKING WITH EFFECTS - INBUILT AND EXTERNAL

• Applying Effects Effect Controls Panel
• 'Fixed' Effects vs 'Added' Effects
• Saving and Re-using Effects
• Basic Introduction to the Lumetric Color Panel
• Copying FX vs Copying Attributes
• Frequently Used Effects Adjustment Layers

ADVANCED TRANSITIONS

• Adding Transitions
• Editing Transitions
• Applying Video Transitions to Multiple Clips
• Changing Default Transitions
• Replacing Transitions
• Changing Default Duration of Transitions Audio transitions

SETTING UP A RECORDING-AREA

• Voicing professional narrations
• Examining audio characteristics
• Adjusting audio volume
• Adding J-cuts and L-cuts

IMPORTING ASSETS

• Techniques for Importing Assets
• Importing Video and Audio Formats (Assets)
• Importing Photoshop,
• Illustrator Files &Images Organizing Footage

Vector Layouts & the Graph Editor

• Using the Invert effect to swap black & white
• Using the Graph Editor to customize easing speed
• Animating vector shapes using the Trim Paths feature
• More null objects: animating the three pay television content descriptors

RENDERING & EXPORTING

• Using the Render Queue
• Working with Adobe Clip Notes
• Exporting files In Video and Animation