Getting to Know the Workflow
o Creating a project and importing footage
o Creating a composition and arranging layers
o Adding effects and modifying layer properties
o Animating the composition
o Previewing your work
o Optimizing performance in After Effects
o Rendering and exporting your composition
o Customizing workspaces
o Controlling the brightness of the user interface
o Finding resources for using After Effects
Creating a Basic Animation Using Effects and Presets
o Importing footage using Adobe Bridge
o Creating a new composition
o Working with imported Illustrator layers
o Applying effects to a layer
o Applying an animation preset Previewing the effects
o Adding transparency
o Rendering the composition
Animating Text
o About text layers
o Creating and formatting point text Using a text animation preset
o Animating with scale keyframes
o Animating using parenting
o Animating imported Photoshop text
o Animating text using a path animation preset
o Animating type tracking
o Animating text opacity
o Using a text animator group
o Cleaning up the path animation
o Animating a nontext layer along a motion path
o Adding motion blur
Working with Shape Layers
o Adding a shape layer Creating custom shapes
o Creating custom shapes
o Positioning layers with snapping
o Incorporating video and audio layers
o Applying a Cartoon effect
o Adding a title bar
o Using Brainstorm to experiment
Animating a Multimedia Presentation
o Animating the scenery using parenting
o Adjusting an anchor point
o Masking video using vector shapes
o Keyframing a motion path
o Animating additional elements
o Applying an effect
o Creating an animated slide show
o Adding an audio track
o Zooming in for a final close-up
Animating Layers
o Getting started
o Simulating lighting changes
o Duplicating an animation using the pick whip
o Animating movement in the scenery
o Adjusting the layers and creating a track matte
o Animating the shadows
o Adding a lens flare effect
o Animating the clock
o Retiming the composition
Working with Masks
o Getting started
o Creating a mask with the Pen tool
o Editing a mask
o Feathering the edges of a mask
o Replacing the content of the mask
o Adding a reflection
o Creating a vignette
o Adjusting the color
Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools
o About the Puppet tools
o Adding Deform pins
o Defining areas of overlap
o Stiffening an area
o Animating pin positions
o Recording animation
Using the Roto Brush Tool
o About rotoscoping
o Creating a segmentation boundary
o Fine-tuning the matte
o Freezing your Roto Brush tool results
o Changing the background
o Adding animated text
o Outputting your project
Performing Color Correction
o Adjusting color balance
o Replacing the background
o Removing unwanted elements
o Correcting a range of colors
o Warming colors with the Photo Filter effect
Using 3D Features
o Creating 3D Text
o Using 3D Views
o Importing a background
o Adding 3D Lights
o Adding a camera
o Repositioning layers
o Adding a text layer
o Working with Cinema 4D Lite
Working with the 3D Camera Tracker
o About the 3D Camera Tracker effect
o Tracking the footage
o Creating a ground plane, a camera, and the initial text
o Creating realistic shadows
o Adding ambient light
o Creating additional text elements
o Locking a layer to a plane with a null object
o Animating the text
o Adjusting the camera’s depth of field
o Rendering the composition
Advanced Editing Techniques
o Using Warp Stabilizer VFX
o Using single-point motion tracking
o Using multipoint tracking
o Creating a particle simulation
o Retiming playback using the Timewarp effect
Rendering and Outputting
o Creating templates for the Render Queue
o Exporting using the Render Queue
o Rendering movies with Adobe Media Encoder
