Chris and Trish Meyer reveal hidden gems they've accumulated in their 20+ years of working with After Effects. Learn useful tricks, shortcuts, and features.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- Preserve transparency
- Illustrator artboards
- Understanding image resampling
- Retiming Sequences
- Collapsed adjustment layers
- Browsing presets in Bridge
- Adjustment layers: The basics
- Adjustment layers: Beyond the basics
- Converting footage to comps
- Divide mode
- Difference mode
- Adding comments to projects
- Edit this; look at that
- Tricks with keyframes
- Smoother
- Linear expression
- Expression controls
- 3D camera shake
- Puppet overlaps
- Puppets and multiple shapes
- Slip editing
- Adobe Typekit
- Hold keyframes
- Color palettes
- Comp proxies
- Rendering at a higher bit depth
- Automatic fades
- Wiggle behaviors
- Layer styles
- Roving keyframes
- Pixel Motion Blur
- Fading multiple layers
- Transforming the render order
- Basic behaviors
- Wiggle Paths
- Preserve Frame Rate
- Stereo Mixer
- Stopping previews
- Swarming shapes
- Revealing curved shapes
- Write-on
- Dashed lines
- Cleaning up projects
- Illuminating dark layers
- Adjustment lights
- Motion paths for effect points
- Conform frame rate
- Working color space
- Grow Bounds
- Replace source
- Sequence layers
- Temporary tools
- Guide Layers
- Set first vertex
- Cropping on output
- Alpha Add mode
- Effects instancing
- Null objects and tracking
Taught by
Chris Meyer and Trish Meyer
