After Effects Apprentice, 2nd Edition

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 ...