You’ve positioned the type and applied some effects to it. It’s time to add some animation! You will learn several ways to animate text in Lesson 3; for now, you’ll ... Read MoreRead More
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
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
You can work with others remotely using features in After Effects designed to enable collaboration. To create a shared project, choose File > New > New Team Project, and then ... Read MoreRead More
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
Use the Timeline panel to animate layer properties and set In and Out points for a layer. (In and Out points are the points at which a layer begins and ... Read MoreRead More
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
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
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
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