Contents
Installing After Effects, Bridge, and Media Encoder
Adobe Authorized Training Centers
1 Getting to Know the Workflow
About the After Effects work area
Creating a project and importing footage
Creating a composition and arranging layers
Adding effects and modifying layer properties
Optimizing performance in After Effects
Rendering and exporting your composition
Controlling the brightness of the user interface
Collaborating in After Effects
Finding resources for using After Effects
2 Creating a Basic Animation Using Effects and Presets
Working with imported Illustrator layers
Applying and controlling effects
Precomposing layers for a new animation
Installing a font using Adobe Fonts
Creating and formatting point text
Animating with scale keyframes
Animating imported Photoshop text
Animating an image to replace text
Creating a self-animating shape
Creating custom shapes with the Pen tool
Positioning layers with snapping
Animating layers to match audio
5 Animating a Multimedia Presentation
Using Creative Cloud Libraries in After Effects
Editing audio files in Adobe Audition
Preparing layered Photoshop files
Duplicating an animation using the pick whip
Using a track matte to confine animation
About track mattes and traveling mattes
Animating using the Corner Pin effect
Viewing render times for layers
Creating a mask with the Pen tool
Feathering the edges of a mask
Replacing the content of the mask
Using the Rectangle and Ellipse tools
8 Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools
Using the Puppet tools to animate video
Extra credit: Act it out with Adobe Character Animator
Creating a segmentation boundary
Editing Adobe Premiere Pro clips with After Effects
Refine Soft Matte and Refine Hard Matte effects
Freezing your Roto Brush tool results
10 Performing Color Correction
Previewing your project on a video monitor
Adjusting color balance with levels
Adjusting color with the Lumetri Color effect
Color-correcting using Auto Levels
Replacing the sky in the second clip
Extra credit: Cloning an object in a scene
11 Creating Motion Graphics Templates
Preparing a master composition
Adding properties to the Essential Graphics panel
Protecting the timing of a section
Extra credit: Using a Motion Graphics template in Adobe Premiere Pro
13 Working with the 3D Camera Tracker
About the 3D Camera Tracker effect
Repairing rolling shutter distortions
Creating a ground plane, a camera, and the initial text
Creating additional text elements
Locking an image to a plane with a solid layer
Adjusting the camera’s depth of field
14 Advanced Editing Techniques
Using single-point motion tracking
Moving and resizing the track points
Creating a particle simulation
Understanding Particle Systems II properties
About high dynamic range (HDR) footage
Retiming playback using the Timewarp effect
Exporting using the Render Queue
Preparing movies for mobile devices
Creating templates for the Render Queue
Rendering movies with Adobe Media Encoder