Adobe After Effects CC Classroom in a Book (2018 release), First Edition

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 project files for this lesson, following the instructions in the Getting Started section under “Accessing the lesson files and Web Edition,” if you haven’t already done so. As ...