Adobe After Effects for Beginners

Overview

“In this unit, I will show you the deeper meaning of "Pre-composition" and "Nesting" of compositions (or nesting in English), how to apply them in After Effects and talk about how the use of these tools speed up the work process within the program. I will show each resource provided by the creation of "Pre-composition", the adjustments in the "Settings", the network of compositions and how to use the pre-render in favor of the creative process.”

In this video lesson Manuel Neto addresses the topic: Pre-composition, Nesting and Settings, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 2 - Basic Concepts I: Compositions, Motion Paths, Masks, and Shapes . Learn how to compose a basic animation and optimize your production performance.

Partial transcription of the video

“ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS / COURSE 2 CLASS 1 - Pre-composition, Nesting and Settings Hi guys, in this class I’m going to introduce you to create pre-compositions and how to nest one composition within the other. How the use of these tools can help the process in After Effects. Here, for example, I have a file created in Illustrator. I'll show you the Illustrator file. And how it is organized, my layers. You see that there are many layers in this scene, it could be that this number of layers was even greater and disrupt our organization process within After Effects. And working with compositions, ...”

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Course summary for: Course 2 - Basic Concepts I: Compositions, Motion Paths, Masks, and Shapes

• Level: Beginner
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