Basics: Introduction to After Effects

Overview

“It’s been a lovely tour, but now you need to make something to cement these concepts in your mind. Follow along with the example and create the starting framework of a project. Imagine what you will be doing or creating, and setup your workspace and settings to fit. Play around and see what works for you. This is like getting comfortable in a new office or workspace. You’ll only get the muscle memory of knowing where things are by moving around the interface and touching everything. ”

In this video lesson Evan Abrams addresses the topic: Start Practicing, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 1: Understanding After Effects. Learn the fundamentals of motion design with Adobe After Effects in this comprehensive course taught by industry expert Evan Abrams, perfect for enhancing your skills in creating dynamic visual content.

Partial transcription of the video

“Let's apply everything we've learned in this course with a short exercise to cement the ideas that we've talked about. Let's get into it. All we're going to do is play around in here. We're going to set up a project, we're going to make some compositions, we're going to move things around, we're going to play around in the space. We have to have an amount of free play with something in order to really cement what it does in a casual way in our minds. I honestly believe that. So let's get started with a blank project. Step one, let's import some footage. We've covered how to do that. We coul...”

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Course summary for: Course 1: Understanding After Effects

• Level: Beginner
• 16 students
• 8 units
• 8 lessons (1h 0m)
• 6 downloads