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Lesson 1

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 media

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

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