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Motion graphics are an essential part of video creation and editing. This ’Become a Motion Graphics Designer Using After Effects’ tutorial will help at every step of the way, without leaving you drowning in details.
Project files included
Length: 4 hrs 50 min
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In this Become a Motion Graphics Designer Using After Effects® course, expert instructor Daniel Scott will take you one manageable step at a time through motion graphics in a series of small practical projects that come together to unlock Adobe® After Effects CC, animation, and infographics.
With nearly 5 hours of high-quality training content, you’ll discover how to create beautiful motion graphics, fix shaky video footage, add 3D type, render video for YouTube™, and so much more!
Learn the principles and the specifics of producing content, in a way that you’ll understand and remember. By the time you’ve completed this course, you will have a complete foundation that you can build on for years to come.
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BECOME A MOTION GRAPHICS DESIGNER USING AFTER EFFECTS
Overview
1. Introduction to Motion Graphics
2. Exercise Files
3. Live Chat forums
4. Relinking missing footage
Industry overview
5. Projects vs. Compositions
6. What’s the right composition settings?
7. Changing the length of your composition
8. Matching composition to video size
9. Create type animation in After Effects
10. Easing your animation
11. Blurring your text while it moves
12. How to render or export your After Effects animation
My computer isn’t good enough & I keep getting lost
13. My computer isn’t good enough – help
14. Empty your disk cache to clear hard drive space
15. I’ve lost my timeline in After Effects
Title overlays, lower thirds & watermarks
16. Lower thirds type animation
17. Creating a watermark in After Effects
18. Rules of motion graphics – anticipation
19. Custom easing using the graph editor in After Effects
20. Adding audio & music to your video
Inspiration
21. Inspiration for you motion graphics
Fixing/Cleaning up your video
22. Trimming the length of a video
23. Color correction, exposure & adjustment layers
24. Creating a vignette in After Effects
25. Fixing shaky footage with warp stabilizer
Camera tracking + Time Remapping
26. Add text to live action video
27. Matrix effect using time remapping
28. Text to follow live action
Animating illustrations
29. Working with Illustrator® in After Effects
30. Looping your animation
31. Grouping is called a pre-comp
32. How to make a motion path
Masking & green screen
33. Green screen Keying
34. Basic Masking
35. Object & mask animate separately – Track Mattes
36. Rotoscoping & faking depth of field
37. Rotobrush – putting type behind video objects
Infographics
38. Animated infographic line chart
39. Pie chart infographic in After Effects
Cameras
40. Using cameras in After Effects
41. Animating a screen capture or screencast
Animated static images
42. Animating static images using parallax
43. Add fake lights with CC Light Rays
44. Creating dust particles in After Effects
Swinging text
45. Swinging text in After Effects
Puppet tool
46. Character animation using the Puppet pin tool
Effects & presets
47. Spinning globe & star effects
Exporting advanced
48. Making your video file size really small
49. Put all your files in one place – collect files
What now?
50. End
Extra
51. Motion Graphic Cheat Sheet for After Effects
Daniel Scott is an expert designer and teacher. He is an Adobe® Certified Instructor for Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver, Premiere Pro and After Effects. He prides himself on delivering the best service to his clients and making sure all his students learn to their fullest potential. He is currently the lead trainer at Bring Your Own Laptop Training Center in New Zealand.
