Introduction

• About After Effects
• Knowing about the system requirements
• Understanding the After Effects workflow
• Organising & managing asset files

About the Workspace

• Getting familiar with the workspace
• Customising After Effects preferences

Project Set-up

• Creating a new After Effects project file
• Learning about compositions and layers
• Navigating in the composition panel
• Adding effects and modifying layer properties
• Animating compositions
• Previewing your work

Basic Animations

• Working with imported Illustrator files and layers
• Applying and controlling effects to a layer
• Using animation presets
• Learning how to precompose layers

Animating Text

• Understanding text layers
• Creating and formatting point text
• Learning to use the character and paragraph panels
• Animating using keyframes
• Knowing and using the easy ease command
• Browsing animation presets
• Customising animation presets
• Working with Photoshop files in After Effects
• Animating type tracking and opacity
• Learning and using text animator group

Animating Multimedia Presentations

• Keyframing motion paths
• Duplicating keyframes to repeat an animation
• Learning about supported audio file formats
• Adding audio tracks to your After Effects project

Working With Shape Layers

• Setting anchor points of a shape
• Adding shape layers
• Learning about the basics of working with a shape layer
• Creating a custom and self-animating shape
• Positioning layers with the snapping feature
• Animating using path, position and scale
• Learning to animate using parenting
• Working with parent and child layers
  
  

Working With Masks

• Introduction to masking
• Learning how to create a mask
• Editing and inverting a mask
• Feathering a mask to make its edges softer
• Replacing the content of a mask
• Applying blending modes

Working With The Puppet Tools

• Learning about the different puppet tools
• Defining areas of overlap
• Using position pins
• Adding advanced and bend pins
• Stiffening an area
• Animating pin positions

Using 3D Features

• Creating 3D text
• Learning how to use the 3D views
• Adding 3D lights and positioning them
• Using spotlight and fill light
• Adding camera for better effects
• Extruding text to create 3D effects
• Animating 3D text

The 3D Camera Tracker

• Learning about the 3D camera tracker effect
• Tracking your footage
• Working with ground planes, cameras and solid layers
• Locking an image to a plane

Additional Editing Techniques

• Learning to stabilise a shot
• Using the warp stabilizer VFX
• Removing unwanted objects in your video
• Using the timewarp effect to speed up or down your video footage
• Understanding single-point motion tracking

Using The Roto Brush Tool

• Introduction to rotoscoping
• Creating a segmentation boundary
• Adjusting the roto brush & refine edge effect
• Learning how to use the refine edge tool
• Changing backgrounds

Rendering & Final Output

• Rendering the composition
• Exporting using the render queue