Previewing the effects – Creating a Basic Animation Using Effects and Presets

It’s time to preview all of the effects together. Adding transparency The logo should appear semitransparently in the corner of the frame during the presentation. You’ll reduce the opacity of ... Read MoreRead More

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Working with imported Illustrator layers – Creating a Basic Animation Using Effects and Presets

The BlueCrabLogo graphic was created in Illustrator; your job in After Effects is to add text and animate it. To work with the layers of the Illustrator file independently of ... Read MoreRead More

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Importing a background image – Creating a Basic Animation Using Effects and Presets

You’ll import the background image first. Creating an empty compositionFirst, you’ll create the composition itself, without any layers. After Effects displays an empty composition named Explore Hawaii in the Composition ... Read MoreRead More

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Using predefined workspaces – Getting to Know the Workflow

Take a minute to explore the predefined workspaces in After Effects. After Effects opens the panels that you would commonly use for animation tasks, including Motion Sketch, Wiggler, and Smoother. ... Read MoreRead More

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Optimizing performance in After Effects – Getting to Know the Workflow

How you configure After Effects and your computer determines how quickly After Effects renders projects. Complex compositions can require a large amount of memory to render, and the rendered movies ... Read MoreRead More

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Animating effects using keyframes – Getting to Know the Workflow

You’ll add an effect to the type layer, but this time, you’ll animate its settings using keyframes. 9. Manually preview the effect by moving the current-time indicator from 0 to ... Read MoreRead More

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Preparing the text composition – Getting to Know the Workflow

In this exercise, you’ll work with a separate composition—the one you imported from a layered Photoshop file. At the top of the Composition panel is the Composition Navigator bar, which ... Read MoreRead More

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Adding a stylistic effect – Getting to Know the Workflow

After Effects also includes many stylistic effects. You’ll add a beam of light to the clip to add an artistic touch. You’ll change the settings of this effect to modify ... Read MoreRead More

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Creating a composition and arranging layers – Getting to Know the Workflow

The next step of the workflow is to create a composition. You create all animation, layering, and effects in a composition. An After Effects composition has both spatial dimensions and ... Read MoreRead More

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Getting started – Getting to Know the Workflow-2

Because one of the footage items for this project is a multilayer Photoshop file, you’ll import it separately as a composition.TipYou can also choose File > Import > Multiple Files ... Read MoreRead More

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