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After Effects Guru: Effects and Preset Management

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Overview

Learn how to use existing presets, design custom effects, and save time with the prebuilt animations in After Effects.

In video, saving time on the simple tasks means you've got more energy left for the hard ones. Luckily, many effects and animations can be automated in After Effects, thanks to its robust effects and presets engine. In this course, you'll learn how to use existing presets, design custom effects and save them as presets, and save time with a variety of built-in animations that most users miss. Author Rich Harrington also shows how to install third-party presets, share and back up your presets, and organize them on your hard drive.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know before watching this course
  • Using the exercise files
1. Applying and Viewing Presets
  • Browsing and applying built-in presets
  • Viewing only modified properties to refine the effect
  • Viewing only keyframed properties to change the animation
2. The Technical Details of Presets
  • Where are presets stored?
  • Downloading and installing additional presets from Adobe
  • Downloading and installing additional presets from third parties
  • How to create your own preset
  • Organizing and saving your own presets
3. Mastering the Effects Panel and Timeline Controls
  • Filtering results in the Effects & Presets panel
  • Reusing recent presets or effects
  • Deleting or disabling effects and animation presets
  • Adding randomness and random seeds
4. Animation Presets in Action
  • Creating and customizing a background using presets
  • Using behavior presets to add core animation
  • Processing images creatively with presets
  • Adding special effects with presets
  • Quick utility presets to solve common problems
  • Creating shapes and elements with presets
  • Designing lower thirds with presets
  • Adding and populating After Effects lower-third templates in Premiere Pro
  • Accessing custom symbol families with presets
  • Creating sound effects with presets
  • Adding synthetic textures with presets
  • Creating animated transitions with presets
5. Text Animation Presets Essentials
  • Accessing built-in text presets
  • Modifying and saving text presets
  • Creating custom text animation
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Richard Harrington

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