Adobe After Effects for Beginners

Overview

“In this unit, I will start using the basic tools for creating animation and composition within After Effects. I will teach you the different ways to create a composition by understanding its settings, presets and characteristics. I will show you how to create some objects within the software and how to manage the layers within a composition. I will present the logic of the timeline and how the interpolation happens inside it.”

In this video lesson Manuel Neto addresses the topic: Timeline, Composition and Layers 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 1: First Steps. Navigate around the interface and explore the program's basic features.

Partial transcription of the video

“ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS / COURSE 1 LESSON 4 - Timeline, Composition and Layers Hello. In this unit, I'm going to show you how to create an animation using only the basic parameters. Before, I will teach you how to create a composition and how the timeline works in After Effects. Come on? There are several ways to create a project. You can come in File, New, New Project. Or the shortcut Cmd + Shift + N, or Ctrl + Shift + N. I'm going to click here on New Project, and we have here the project that will work in today's class. Before we start, we need to create a composition. There are several ways...”

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Course summary for: Course 1: First Steps

• Level: Beginner
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• 11 students
• 9 units
• 12 lessons (2h 50m)
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