After Effects CS5 Introduction

Day one

1. Navigating the After Effects interface
Woking with panels, creating and using workspaces.

2. Creating a project.

Create a Composition, Import Media, Create Layers from Footage Items and Position Layers in Time

3. Animating Layers and Effects

Animate Transform Properties, Duplicate Properties, Control Appearance of Vector Graphic, Create Animated Text, Apply Effects to Motion Graphics, Apply Text Animation Presets, Set Blending Modes for Layers and Create Solids.

4. Working with Keyframes
Working with different types of keyframes.

5. Importing Layered photoshop and illustrator files, animating them with parenting techniques.

Day 2

Lesson

1. Sequencing Layers Precisely

Replace the Footage Within a Layer, Set a Layer's In and Out Points, Slip Edit Layers in Video Editing, Control a Layer's Playback Rate, Loop a Footage Item, Nest Compositions and Pre-compose Layers

2. Creating Transparency

Assign Track Mattes and Create Masks

3. Creating nested compositions
Nest one composition in another to create complex animations and editing them.

4. Apply effects - motion sketch, motion blur, animating with the puppet pin tools

6. Outputting Video Files

Create a Render Settings Template, Create an Output Module Template, Render a Composition and Export a Composition