After Effects CC 2018 Tutorial Series

Table of Contents:
– Introduction 
– New Features 
– Immersive Video: Work with VR 

After Effects CC 2018 Training: The Basics
If you need to learn Adobe After Effects for the first time, it helps to break the program down to the basics. This course is designed to help absolute beginners understand the basic concepts and techniques that make After Effects such a powerful motion graphics and compositing application. It’s a big-picture type of training course designed to inform and inspire. In chapter one, instructor Mark Christiansen covers the six foundations of After Effects: building compositions, working with layers, animating with the Timeline, adding effects, designing in 3D, and rendering. The second chapter presents a short motion project that shows how all the tools come together in a real-world workflow. – Six Foundations of After Effects – Setting up a composition

Topics include:

– Working with layers 
– Animating compositions 
– Applying effects, including lights 
– Working in 3D 
– Rendering projects 

After Effects CC 2018 Training: Motion Graphics
After Effects can do many things, but if you’re a motion designer, you’re into After Effects for its motion graphics capabilities. This course focuses on the tools and techniques you need to make amazing motion designs in Adobe After Effects CC 2018. First, explore the shape layers and paths, the foundation of effective vector based compositions. Then learn different methods of animation, including manually animating with keyframes, leveraging the Graph Editor, changing speed with time remapping, motion sketching, and looping with expressions. Next is compositing, which allows you to combine visual elements from separate sources, as well as mask out areas of an effect. Then learn how to set up and animate type, and get an introduction to 3D. The last step is rendering your project for your final destination.

Topics include:
– Working with shape layers and paths 
– Animating compositions 
– Compositing 
– Animating type 
– Animating 3D layers 
– Creating 3D text and geometry 
– Rendering your motion graphics 
– Following an efficient motion graphic workflow 

After Effects CC 2018: Editors and Post Training
In this course, Alan Demafiles covers the main aspects of Post Effects commonly used in editing and post production: masks, shapes, types, logos, stills, animating, rendering, and exporting. To begin, Alan compares After Effects to Premiere Pro so you can see similarities and differences. Then he dives into hands-on demonstrations of how to limit effects with masks, create elements with shape layers, use text templates, animate a logo, and create a 3D type extrusion. Next he shows you how to work with imported pictures, create a Z-space camera montage, change the speed of animations, and more. He wraps up by walking through the outputting steps and then kicks off a challenge exercise where you can put your skills into practice. 

Topics include:
– Linking Premiere Pro and After Effects dynamically
– Navigating timeline layers 
– Working with keyframes 
– Precomping elements 
– Animating mask reveals and tracking masks 
– Creating elements with shape layers 
– Animating shapes and text 
– Working with Illustrator files 
– Animating a logo 
– Creating a 3D type extrusions 
– Creating a simple camera in Z -space montage 
– Keying video with Keylight 
– Batch rendering and Dynamic Link rendering