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After Effects Guru: Creating Presets and Controllers

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Learn how to build After Effects presets that you can use in future projects. Explore text presets and textures, discover ways to control multiple layers in a project, and more.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know before watching this course
  • Using the exercise files
1. Creating Text and Shape Presets for Kinetic Text Animations
  • Understanding how to work with text animators
  • Creating a text animation preset , part 1
  • Creating a text animation preset, part 2
  • Creating custom vignette presets
  • Creating fractal noise presets
  • Creating a custom texture library
  • Sharing presets
2. Understanding Control Layers
  • Using a null object to control layered graphics
  • Using a null object to control camera rotation
  • An overview of expression controls
  • Using the interpolation expression to link values
3. Control Layers in Action
  • Setting up a Universal Color Control
  • Using a checkbox control for visibility
  • Using slider controls for wiggling a light's intensity
  • Using prebuilt expressions to drive camera animation and depth of field
  • Animating fractal noise to control layer visibility
  • Creating a control layer to delay layer animation
  • Saving your control layers and expressions
Conclusion
  • Summary

Taught by

Nick Harauz

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