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.

  • Add color labels to keyframes.

  • Fade out audio.

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This lesson will take about an hour to complete. If you haven’t already done so, download the project files for this lesson from adobepress.com/AfterEffectsCIB2023, following the instructions in the Getting ...

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