- Overview of using After Effects
- Setting up a new project
- Setting Video preferences
- Using the scrubbable hot text controls
- Importing files from different sources – Photoshop,
Premiere and Illustrator
- Setting Still Images durations
- Setting Frame Rate and Pixel Aspect Ratios
- Managing footage and creating folders
- Creating compositions
- Adding compositions to the Timeline
- Creating solid and adjustment layers
- Working with layers
- Switching video and audio on and off
- The Time Graph
- Trimming and overlapping layers
- Working with In and Out points
- Using markers
- Working with the Transform properties
- Using the Audio Waveform properties
- Using the Audio Waveform effect
- Using the Stereo Mixer
- RAM previews and regions of interest
- Working with masks, including drawing, scaling and
editing
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- Setting an effect point
- Feathering mask edges
- Adding effects - including Time and Echo
- Saving an effect as a Favourite
- Blending, distorting and perspective effects
- Advanced effects, such as gradient wipe
- Layer modes and frame blending
- The motion blur
- Using the Speed and Velocity graph – and temporal
interpolation
- Bezier curve interpolation
- Using 3D in After Effects
- Orientation and rotation of a 3D object
- Moving Lights through 3D
- Moving a camera view through 3D
- Depth of field
- Nesting layers and Parenting layers
- Exporting to Quicktime and SWF
- Understanding codecs for exporting
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