Adobe After Effects CC Classroom in a Book (2015 release)

5. Animating a Multimedia Presentation

Lesson overview

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Create a complex animation with multiple layers.

• Adjust the duration of a layer.

• Animate with Position, Scale, and Rotation keyframes.

• Use parenting to sync the animation of layers.

• Use Bezier curves to smooth a motion path.

• Animate a precomposed layer.

• Apply effects to a solid layer.

• Fade out audio.

This lesson will take about an hour to complete. Download the Lesson05 project files from the Lesson & Update Files tab on your Account page at www.peachpit.com, if you haven’t already done so. As you work on this lesson, you’ll ...