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Adobe Aftereffects Lesson 1: Fundamentals of Motion Graphics

This document outlines the topics that will be covered in 12 lessons on using Adobe After Effects. The lessons cover fundamentals like color, frame rate and resolution. They also cover the workflow, importing footage, creating compositions and animations. Specific lessons teach how to work with masks, animate text and shape layers, use effects like puppet tools and motion sketch. Other lessons cover rendering output, parenting layers and advanced topics like displacement maps and transfer controls.

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Adobe Aftereffects Lesson 1: Fundamentals of Motion Graphics

This document outlines the topics that will be covered in 12 lessons on using Adobe After Effects. The lessons cover fundamentals like color, frame rate and resolution. They also cover the workflow, importing footage, creating compositions and animations. Specific lessons teach how to work with masks, animate text and shape layers, use effects like puppet tools and motion sketch. Other lessons cover rendering output, parenting layers and advanced topics like displacement maps and transfer controls.

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Adobe Aftereffects

Lesson 1: Fundamentals of Motion Graphics


■ RGB Color Model
■ Frame Size
■ Resolution
■ Pixel Aspect Ratio
■ Alpha Channels
■ Frame Rate
■ Time Code
■ Interpreting Footage
Lesson 2: 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
■ Finding resources for using After Effects
Lesson 3: Creating a Basic Animation Using Effects and
Presets
■ Importing footage using Adobe Bridge
■ Importing video clips
■ Importing stills
■ Importing a sequence of stills (interpreting)
■ Importing multi-layered photoshop and illustrator files
■ Creating a new composition
■ Applying effects to a layer
■ Changing parameters globally
■ Creating key frames
■ Key frame 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
Lesson 4: 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 key frames
Lesson 5: Animating Text
■ About text layers
■ Creating and formatting point text vs. paragraph text
■ Using a text animation preset
■ Text on a path
■ Animating imported Photoshop text
■ Animating text using a path animation preset
■ Using a text animators
■ Adding properties
■ Adding a range selector
■ Using a text animator group
Lesson 6: 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
Lesson 7: Other Effects
■ Time remapping
■ Motion sketch
■ The smoother
■ The wiggler
■ Auto orient
■ Splitting a layer
■ Adjustment layers
■ The effects and Presets panel
Lesson 8: Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools
■ About the Puppet tools
■ Adding Deform pins
■ Defining areas of overlap
■ Stiffening an area
■ Animating pin positions
■ Recording animation
Lesson 9: Rendering and Output
■ Creating templates for the Render Queue
■ Exporting using the Render Queue
■ Rendering movies with Adobe Media Encoder
Lesson 10: Parenting
■ Understanding Parenting
■ Simple Pick whipping
■Parenting to a null
■ Using Parenting for positioning
■ Using Parenting in Special Effects
Lesson 11: Other Effects
■ Time remapping
■ Understanding Compound Effects
■ Gradient Wipe
■ Displacement Map
Lesson 12: Transfer Controls
■ Understanding Layer Blending Modes and how to change
those using shortcuts
■ Using Track Mattes
■ Understanding precomposing and nesting
■ Stencil and Silhouette
■ Preserve Transparency

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