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Class Updates & My Favorite CC 2020 Updates

Lesson 1 from: Adobe After Effects Fundamentals

Philip Ebiner

Class Updates & My Favorite CC 2020 Updates

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Philip Ebiner

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1. Class Updates & My Favorite CC 2020 Updates

Lessons

Class Trailer

Chapter 1: Introduction

1

Class Updates & My Favorite CC 2020 Updates

06:22

Chapter 2: After Effects Basics

2

Understand the After Effects Workspace

05:39
3

Starting a New Composition

08:15
4

CC 2018 Update - Starting a New Composition from Footage

01:55
5

Adding Media to Your Project and the Timeline

05:08
6

Using the Basic After Effects Tools

10:20
7

Create a Perfect Circle, Alignment, and Shape Colors

03:04
8

Working in the Timeline

10:59
9

Layer Properties

08:57
10

Quiz: After Effects Basics

Chapter 3: Animating with Keyframes

11

Animating in After Effects

07:35
12

Position, Scale, and Rotation Animations

05:17
13

Tips to Make Your Animations Look More Nautral

04:21
14

Using the Graph Editor

05:32
15

Challenge - Bouncing Ball

01:01
16

Solution - Bouncing Ball

13:00
17

Quiz: Animating with Keyframes

Chapter 4: Shapes and Solid Layers

18

Working with Solid Layers and the Ken Burns Effects

07:07
19

Working with Shape Layers, Strokes, and Paths

06:24
20

Adding Layer Styles like Drop Shadow, Bevel, and Gradients

03:44
21

Shape Effects - Trim Path Animations, Wiggle, and Zig Zag

05:54
22

Quiz: Shapes and Solid Layers

Chapter 5: Important After Effects Skills

23

Track Matte Animations - Make Layers Appear and Disappear

08:37
24

Using Pre-Compositions to Group Layers

05:34
25

Easily Reverse Complicated Animations

02:14
26

Playing with Time

05:54
27

Blend Modes

06:05
28

Stabilize Shaky Footage

04:04
29

CC 2018 Update - Previewing and Favoriting Fonts

00:46
30

CC 2019 Update - Responsive Design Time

03:36
31

CC 2019 Content Aware Fill

03:55
32

CC 2019 Create Motion Graphic Templates

08:37
33

Quiz: Important After Effects Skills

Chapter 6: Motion Graphics Projects

34

Intro to Motion Graphics Projects

00:53
35

Clean Lower Third

09:22
36

Logo Reveal Animation Bumper

13:25
37

Colorful Transition

16:59
38

Text with Mask Path Animation

10:05
39

Text Bubble Animation

13:39
40

Weather App 1

16:41
41

Weather App 2

08:21
42

Weather App 3

06:59
43

Quiz: Motion Graphics Projects

Chapter 7: Flat Animation Challenge

44

Flat Animation Challenge

02:47
45

Phil Designs his Flat Animation Scene

01:23
46

Animating Fireworks with the Repeater Effect

15:02

Chapter 8: Flat Animation Challenge

47

Removing Green Screen Background

06:46
48

Adding a Background that Matches the Foreground

07:55
49

Adding Motion to a Still Image with the Puppet Tool

06:26
50

Adding Movement with the Ripple Effect

06:07
51

Quiz: Flat Animation Challenge

Chapter 9: Green Screen (Chromakeying)

52

Intro to 3D

10:04
53

Swinging 3D Text Animation

12:11
54

Build Out Your 3D Composition

05:47
55

Animating Our 3D Scene

07:38
56

Create Stars in After Effects

05:11
57

Quiz: Green Screen (Chromakeying)

Chapter 10: 3D Animations and the Camera Tool

58

Using the Rotoscope Tool

06:55
59

Cleaning Up Your Edges

07:21
60

Finishing Our Rotobrush Animation

07:33
61

Quiz: 3D Animations and the Camera Tool

Chapter 11: Rotoscoping

62

Easy Screen Replacement with Masks

09:56
63

Replacing a Screen Version 2

13:49
64

Screen Replacement with Mocha

07:13
65

CC 2019 Update - Native Mocha AE Plugin

05:08
66

Quiz: Rotoscoping

Chapter 12: Screen Replacements

67

Using the Puppet Pin Tool

04:33
68

Animating Your Puppet Pins

03:04
69

Animated Blinking Eyes

08:21
70

Adding Perspective with Animated Clouds

07:10
71

CC 2018 Update - Advanced Puppet Pin Tool

02:08
72

Quiz: Screen Replacements

Chapter 13: Puppet Tool Animations

73

Applying Text Animation Presets

05:59
74

Create a Page Turn Effect with CC Page Turn

10:05
75

Radial and Linear Wipes

03:20
76

Color Correction in After Effects

03:33
77

CC 2019 Update - Selective Color Adjustments

03:25
78

Quiz: Puppet Tool Animations

Chapter 14: Motion Tracking

79

Motion Tracking Basics

09:51
80

Tracking Text and Visual Effects to Video Clip

06:21
81

Tracking Rotation and Scale

11:33
82

Adding Details to Our Text

04:04
83

Quiz: Motion Tracking

Chapter 15: Character Animations

84

Intro to Character Animations

01:31
85

Design Your Character

14:32
86

Rigging Your Character

02:50
87

Animating Our Character

09:55
88

Adding the Animated Background

09:12
89

Adding Details to Character Movement

06:46
90

Adding the Paper Cut Out Look

05:29
91

Quiz: Character Animations

Chapter 16: Exporting from After Effects

92

Exporting an H264 File from After Effects

07:03
93

Exporting from After Effects with a Transparent Background

04:03
94

Exporting from After Effects through Adobe Media Encoder

04:40
95

CC 2018 Update - Exporting an Animated GIF from Adobe Media Encoder

02:14
96

Create an Animated GIF from After Effects CC 2017

07:03

Chapter 17: After Effects Workflow & Tips

97

Audio Tips for After Effects

02:19
98

Working with Premiere Pro

05:54
99

Quiz: After Effects Workflow & Tips

Chapter 18: Expressions

100

Expressions Basics

07:24
101

Animate a Flickering Light with Expressions

17:35
102

Quiz: Expressions

Chapter 19: Conclusion

103

Conclusion

00:44

Final Quiz

104

Final Quiz

Lesson Info

Class Updates & My Favorite CC 2020 Updates

just a quick note every year, Adobe releases a handful of updates to adobe after effects and this usually takes place in the fall and when they do that, I will update this course. So since I've launched this course, I've added several lectures to the course that say update in the title and then the year that that update was released. And so those will be sort of bigger. Fuller tutorials about The updates also include later in this video. Just a brief rundown of some of the other updates that are more recent that don't require real tutorial on how to use it. If this anything we go over in this video is confusing to you um it's probably best just to continue with the course and you should be fine and maybe come back to this video if there's a specific thing you're wondering about or if there's something different in your version of after effects than what you're seeing In general though. What you do in after effects will be 99% the same whether you're using the 2016 version, the version...

or a version in the future. And if there are any major major changes to the application, I'll make sure to either have a new lesson or recreate the course from scratch. But for now I feel confident that no matter what version of creative cloud you are using, you should be able to be fine and you'll still be able to learn how to use after effects with this course. That being said there are some new releases for CC 2020 that I am excited about a lot has to do with just the performance of after effects. The speed at which you are working with in the program and I'm going to dive into my top ones right now. The first one is preview and playback. Performance improvements. Basically what this means is that you'll be able to play your video footage in real time before, especially if you're using higher resolution footage, like four K footage or even if you had a slower computer and you were using 10 80 p footage, if you just went to your timeline and you had some video footage on there and you press the space bar, it wouldn't really play back in real time and it might even just play a few seconds before it had to pause and render. Now, after effects should be able to play most footage just like any typical video editor you can watch and play back in real time. Now, of course, depending on how many effects you're adding and how fast your computer is, it might still be a little bit slower than a typical video editor. But this is definitely something that I'm super excited about. So, again, if you're watching this and you're like, well, I don't know how to add video to my foot. My project. I don't know what the timeline is. Don't worry, we're going to cover all of this in the actual course. My next favorite improvement is grouping in a shape layer. So this will just improve and speed up your workflow. Sometimes you're creating a shape and this is just my abstract art. But here we have this shape layer and it has six different shapes within it. Before you could create a very intricate shape and have all these layers and have no real way to organize. So now we can actually select multiple layers, right click and choose group shapes and we can do that again with the rectangles. And now when we twirl down our group options, we actually have a transformed property for the group. So now we can just move this entire group of shapes more easily and adjust anything we want scale opacity so that um it's just a better way of working with shape layers. So I think that's pretty cool but maybe I'm just an after effects nerd. the other major changes for the CC 2020 version include new enhancements to the templates, the graphic templates, editor or creator. You can now have drop down menu controls and multiple lines of text. There's a tutorial later in this course on how to create motion graphics templates, which you would then use in an application like adobe premiere pro. And you this is a great way that you can speed up your own workflow or create templates even to sell or if you are using templates. Uh this is a good skill to understand. So that's one update for CC 2020 and then another one is the content aware fill option which again we have a tutorial later on in this course about it but it just has improvements like speedy, it'll be a little bit faster and this is basically how you can remove unwanted objects from video itself. And as you can see here, I'm on the Adobe website and it's best if you follow adobe as well, especially in the fall, you'll notice that they release or whenever they release a new version of 2020 through the Creative cloud app or just by going to their website, you can see all of their improvements or updates. Uh Nothing super major here for 2020 except for the ones I mentioned earlier on which still aren't that big. But as always it's nice to have little improvements here and there, especially With improving the speed and performance. So like I mentioned, if you are in this class and you are using the 2020 version, great. If you're using an older or a new newer version, great. Uh if there are updates to things, you might see an updated lesson that says C C 20 20 update or CC 2019 update or whatever it was when that update was released. Alright, I hope you enjoyed this video and we'll see you Alright. I hope you enjoyed this video and we'll see you in another one

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