A Quick Start to Enable Your After Effects Skills
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How to Start Motion Graphics Now!
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How to Download Your Project Files
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Download your Project and Footage Files for this section
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Tutorial Request: Submit Your Idea
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Getting ready to start your first Animation (Preference)
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Dive In for beginners: Design and Animate your first Lower Third
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How about Visual Effects?
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Dive In for novices: Change colors in a defined video area
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Practice Activity - Challenge
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Practice Activity - Tutorial
Working in After Effects CC: A overview of the Interface and Keyboard Shortcuts
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Introduction to this section
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Download your Project and Footage Files for this section
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After Effects Interface - Workspaces
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How to Adjust and Move the Panels
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How to Create a New composition from Footage
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How to Create a Blank Composition
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When the Footage goes Missing
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The Visual Keyboard Shortcuts' Editor
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After Effects Keyboard Shortcuts - Documentation and Adobe Reference
Introduction to Simple Shapes and Text Layers
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Introduction to this section
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How to Create and Edit Text Layers
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Inside the Shape Layer - Simple Overview
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How to Create and Edit Shape Layers
How to Create Motion (Animate) - Create Your First Motion Graphics Projects
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How to Acquire Top Animation Skills
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Download your Project and Footage Files for this section
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Setting the Anchor Point Preference
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Creating Motion : Concepts and detailed overview
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How to Create a full Motion Projects - Concepts & Methods
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First Project: Design the Layout
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First Project: Animate the Layers
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First Project: Sequence your Animation
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Second Project - Flood News : Design
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Second Project - Flood News : Animate
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Second Project - Flood News : Sequence
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Introduction to the YouTube Project
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The YouTube Project: Design/Animate/Sequence
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The YouTube Project: Reversing the Animation
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Your Challenge & Practice Activity - A full Motion Graphics Project
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Challenge & Practice Activity: Design your graphics
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Challenge & Practice Activity: Animate your layers
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Challenge & Practice Activity: Sequencing your layers
Create and Publish your Videos to YouTube/Vimeo/Facebook...
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Your Learning Take away from this Section
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Download your Project and Footage Files for this section
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First things first: Few things to take care of
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Create Video using the Add to Render Queue Option
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Create Pro Videos using the Adobe Media Encoder (Recommended)
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When Adobe Media Encoder does not Pop Up
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Reducing the Video file size
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Practice Activity: Upload your work
Working with Compositions - Layers, Videos and Composition's Editing Techniques
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Introduction to this section
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Download Your Project file for this Practice Activity
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Create a Composition from Multiple Footage
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Create a Composition in CC 2018
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Dropping / Trimming your Videos
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Shifting Layer Content - Using the Pan Behind tool
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Trim Comp to a define Work Area
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Creating Slide Shows: Sequencing layers
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Extracting & Lifting Work Area
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How to use the Source (Footage) Panel
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How to Use the Layer Panel
Spatial and Temporal Interpolation - Motion Path and Speed Control
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Your Learning Take away from this Section
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Download the Practice Activity Project File
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Motion Path - Overview and definitions
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The Spatial Interpolation
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The Temporal Interpolation
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How to use the Speed Graph Editor
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How to use the Value Graph Editor
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Upgrading Motion Path Preferences
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Practice Activity (Apply what you learnt)
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Practice Activity Tutorial
Essential Reveal Techniques with Track Mattes and Pre-Comps
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Your Learning Take away from this Section
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Download your Project and Footage Files for this section
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Revealing Layers with Track Mattes
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How to use the Alpha Inverted Track Mattes
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How to use the Luma Track Mattes
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How to use the Luma Inverted Track Mattes
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Animating Track Mattes - Another way to reveal Layers
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Pre-Comp Techniques to Reveal Layers
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Pre-Comps Region of Interest
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Create Track Matte from Pre-Comps
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Create Track Matte from Text Layers
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Practice Activity: The Luma Matte Challenge
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Practice Activity: The Luma Matte Challenge
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Practice Activity: Rabbit out of the Hat and The Magician Show
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Practice Activity Tutorial: Rabbit out of the Hat
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Practice Activity Tutorial: The Magician Show
Complex, Compound and Bezier Shapes - Properties & Animation Techniques
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You Learning Take Away from this Section
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Download Your Project file for this Section