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After Effects Apprentice, 2nd Edition by Chris Trish Meyer

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Basic Animation

Building your first animation while you learn a typical After Effects workflow

In This Lesson

creating folders in the Project panel
creating a new composition
importing files and folders
interpreting alpha channels
adding layers to the Comp panel
changing the Background Color
scrubbing parameter values
interactively transforming layers
animating Position; RAM Preview
navigating between keyframes
adding a background layer
dragging footage to the Timeline panel
editing a keyframe’s Bezier handles
editing spatial keyframes; motion paths
animating Opacity, Scale, and Rotation
arranging and replacing layers
adding solid layers
applying, copying and pasting effects
rendering
understanding the comp’s alpha channel
importing layered ...

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