Learn Adobe After Effects

Launching Adobe After Effects can be scary! But it doesn't have to be. In this course, I walk you through the most vital sections, tools, plugins and techniques in After Effects to help you create awesome visual effects, motion graphics and more.

The course starts at the beginning, creating a new project and composition, we then explore the user interface, import video footage, create shapes and solids then animate those layers using keyframe animation. After that we group multiple layers together and animate them at the same time with null objects and parenting. Motion blur, masking, text and generating a lower third come next. We then take that text and convert it to 3D text and explore 3D lights and virtual cameras before jumping into motion tracking with the 2D motion tracker and 3D camera tracker. We touch base with some effects in the effect and presets panel and learn how to adjust certain effects in After Effects. We're then removing backgrounds with green screen editing and rotoscoping. The puppet pin tool comes next, then colouring, animating with expressions and lastly, most importantly, how to export from After Effects.

So sit back, grab a coffee and let's jump into Adobe After Effects and make this intimidating piece of software more manageable.

In this lesson, we will dive into After Effects and create a new project then create a brand new composition. We will look at the best settings to use when creating your new composition.

In this lesson, we're exploring the user interface and having a look at the different menus, workspaces and buttons in After Effects.

In this lesson, you will learn how to import your footage into Adobe After Effects and get that into your composition.

In this lesson, you will create shapes and solids.

Keyframe animation is the backbone of After Effects, so this lesson will teach you everything you need to know in order to get started with animation in AE.

In this lesson, you will learn about the power of parenting layers to a null object.

Activate your motion blur in After Effects to help blend your animation.

In this lesson, you will learn how to mask your footage and effects in After Effects.

Learn how to create and style text in Adobe After Effects

In this lesson, you will combine what you have learned so far to create a lower third animation.

Convert your 2D text to 3D text in this lesson.

Whether you want to add text into a moving shots or add some footage into another video clip, motion tracking is the first step to that. This lesson walks through how to motion track your video footage.

In this lesson, we're taking things further and jumping into the 3D Camera Tracker, an advanced motion tracking tool in AE.

In this lesson, we will explore the user interface further and delve deep into the Effects & Presets panel.

In this lesson, you will learn how to remove the green from green screen footage and add in a new background.

When you need to remove a background but your footage was not filmed on a green screen, rotoscoping is your next best option.

Move onto a different style of animation with the puppet pin tool. You can create more natural animation with this tool and you can even create character animation with this tool.

In this lesson, you will learn about different colour correction, grading and colour matching tools are available in AE.

In this lesson, we're experimenting with animation by using expressions. We'll jump into the wiggle expression and a time/rotation expression.

In this lesson, you will learn how to export your project file from After Effects and turn that into a video file. This features a normal export, a compressed export, an export with a transparent background and batch exporting with media encoder.

...and you're done! Congratulations for completing the course.