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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Applying effects to a layer – Creating a Basic Animation Using Effects and Presets

Now you’ll return to the main composition, Explore Hawaii, and apply an effect to the BlueCrabLogo layer. This will apply the effect to all of the layers nested in the ... Read MoreRead More

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Getting started – Creating a Basic Animation Using Effects and Presets

Lesson overview In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following: This lesson will take about an hour to complete. If you haven’t already done so, download the project ... Read MoreRead More

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Collaborating in After Effects – Getting to Know the Workflow

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

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Using the Properties panel – Getting to Know the Workflow

The Properties panel provides quick access to properties for the selected layer. It displays Transform properties for all layers, and additional properties for text or shape layers. You can also ... 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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Editing text – Getting to Know the Workflow

You’ll start by replacing the placeholder text with real text. Then you’ll format it to fit the space better.  Note After Effects offers robust character and paragraph formatting controls, but ... Read MoreRead More

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Changing Transform properties – Getting to Know the Workflow

The title is currently in the center of the screen, obscuring the dog and distracting from the action. You’ll move it to the lower left corner, where it will remain ... 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-1

A basic After Effects workflow follows six steps: importing and organizing footage, creating compositions and arranging layers, adding effects, animating elements, previewing your work, and rendering and outputting the final ... Read MoreRead More

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