Adobe After Effects 2022: The Comprehensive A-Z Course

Become an After Effects professional with fascinating project examples! Includes video material and handout.

What you'll learn
You'll learn and understand the After Effects user interface and features.
You'll discover the endless possibilities of Adobe After Effects through a variety of project examples in a way that makes the knowledge stick with you.
Among other things, you'll animate the beat of a song in a video and realistically recreate a car accident including shattered glass and dented hood.
You'll learn to animate text, use keyframes for your projects, and even code in After Effects with Expressions.
You'll discover many more effects and possibilities like keying, camera tracking, particle systems, fog, masks and overlay.
You'll learn to create images like YouTube thumbnails in After Effects as we develop the main course image and a Bitcoin t-shirt design together.
You'll highlight different import formats and render settings to get the most out of your projects depending on what you're willing to do.
You'll receive a handout with the most important keyboard shortcuts and useful expressions for quick and lasting use.
You'll have access to professional video footage for your own collaboration, which I have recorded by drone, among other things, especially for this course.
You'll learn about useful plug-ins and extras to take your video edits to the next level.
Requirements
You should have a relatively powerful PC or laptop with Internet access.
You should be aware that this course will give you all the tools and knowledge to get excited about the incredible possibilities of Adobe After Effects. To ensure that the knowledge gained from the theory is permanently stored in your memory, it is recommended that you use the material provided and take part in the projects!
Description
Are you interested in video editing, visual effects, and motion graphics? Then there's no getting around Adobe After Effects!This much in advance: This program is so incredibly powerful that it's impossible to cover every angle explicitly. So why am I still confidently calling this course a comprehensive A-Z Course? I am convinced that I will provide you with so much knowledge, tools and understanding of effects and contexts that you will be able to master your individual challenges of all kinds in a solution-oriented way.Of course, the content of this course deals with all theory, so you will be able to find your way around the user interface and the inexhaustible variety of parameters and possibilities. Apart from that, to put it bluntly, we'll go through impressively spectacular project examples that will encourage you to get involved and hopefully get you as excited about After Effects as I have been myself for more than 15 years.Among other things, we will look at the basic functions, effects, import and export settings. You will learn about keyframes, text animations and expressions. You'll simulate your own car accident, we'll extract music data so you can animate your videos to music, you'll integrate text into real landscapes, remove objects from filmed scenes, create a 3D cell phone model without additional plug-ins and much, much more.For you there is not only a handout with the most important shortcuts and expressions, but also downloadable video material, which I have recorded by drone and GoPro especially for this course.If you are passionate about video creation and want to learn and understand the best program on the global market, Adobe After Effects, then this course might be for you. If you are willing to apply your knowledge to projects through fascinating, action-packed examples in a way that will stick with you, then this course is definitely for you!Enroll today - I am confident that I can repay your trust in me with content and look forward to sharing my enthusiasm for AE with you!…Independently of this, I am always available for questions, comprehension problems or suggestions in the comment section or via private message.

Overview

Section 1: Initial information

Lecture 1 Welcome

Lecture 2 Who am I & Why am I an AE expert

Lecture 3 What you can expect from this course: structure & goals

Lecture 4 For you: video material & handout

Section 2: Getting to know After Effects

Lecture 5 Download and Installation

Lecture 6 First opening and our lifesaver: activating auto save

Lecture 7 User interface overview: Header area Part 1

Lecture 8 User interface overview: Header area Part 2

Lecture 9 User interface overview: Project area

Lecture 10 User interface overview: Preview area

Lecture 11 User interface overview: Right side Info and Audio

Lecture 12 User interface overview: Right side Preview

Lecture 13 User interface overview: Right side Effects, Paragraph and Character

Lecture 14 User interface overview: Composition area Part 1

Lecture 15 User interface overview: Composition area Part 2

Lecture 16 User interface overview: Timeline

Section 3: It's all about TEXT

Lecture 17 Create a text: Basic and transformation options

Lecture 18 Create a text: Getting to know keyframes

Lecture 19 Create a text: More keyframes and motion blur

Lecture 20 Apply effects to the text and use the mask to create a simple background

Lecture 21 Practical example: Create a Fly-By title sequence

Section 4: IMPORT & EXPORT

Lecture 22 Export video sequence via After Effects: AVI container format

Lecture 23 Export video sequence via After Effects: MOV container format

Lecture 24 Adobe Media Encoder and best export settings

Lecture 25 Digression: Video Format Converter

Lecture 26 Importing sources: Video, image sequences and more

Section 5: Practical example: 3D mobile phone model from scratch

Lecture 27 Our goal: 3-dimensional phone model with individual screen content

Lecture 28 Part 1: 3D mobile phone face

Lecture 29 Part 2: 3D mobile phone face additional information

Lecture 30 Part 3: 3D mobile phone back

Lecture 31 Part 4: Aligning phone face and back

Lecture 32 Part 5: Side area of the mobile phone

Lecture 33 Part 6: The composition

Lecture 34 Part 7: Further adjustments

Lecture 35 Part 8: Movement in space

Lecture 36 Part 9: Customizing the phone screen

Section 6: Practical example: Listen to the BEAT

Lecture 37 Our goal: Animating Music - Video2Music

Lecture 38 Part 1: The audio spectrum effect, polar coordinates and aligning on mask path

Lecture 39 Part 2: Introduction to Expressions

Lecture 40 Part 3: The Linear Expression

Lecture 41 Part 4: Link more parameters to the Music

Lecture 42 Part 5: Customizing the text content, Time and Wiggle Expression

Section 7: Using KEYING and ROTO BRUSH

Lecture 43 Using a Greenscreen to go on vacation from home

Lecture 44 The Roto Brush tool: Overview

Lecture 45 The Roto Brush tool: First example in detail

Lecture 46 The Roto Brush tool: Second example in fast forward

Lecture 47 Set up an interview with yourself

Section 8: Filling methods and blending modes using the example of IMAGE EDITING

Lecture 48 Introduction to Mode and Moving Mask as Structural Elements

Lecture 49 Fill methods and their function

Lecture 50 Practical example: Bitcoin Tshirt design

Lecture 51 After Effects Course Image Making Of

Section 9: Altering a SCENE: Add and remove objects

Lecture 52 What will happen in this section

Lecture 53 Practical example: Placing text in drone shot - The 3D camera tracker

Lecture 54 Practical example: Placing text in drone shot - light and shadow in space

Lecture 55 Practical example: Placing text in drone shot - Integrate additional text

Lecture 56 Addition to the topic of light in After Effects

Lecture 57 Practical example: removing objects by content-aware fill - beach

Lecture 58 Practical example: removing objects by content-aware fill - boat

Lecture 59 Practical example: levitating objects in real 3D space - Part 1

Lecture 60 Practical example: levitating objects in real 3D space - Part 2

Lecture 61 Practical example: levitating objects in real 3D space - Part 3

Section 10: Even more PRACTICE: Creating our own car accident

Lecture 62 Introduction

Lecture 63 Understanding time remapping

Lecture 64 Basic coordination of layers

Lecture 65 Cutting out a person

Lecture 66 Null object and advanced expressions

Lecture 67 Masking and alpha matte

Lecture 68 Shadow of the person

Lecture 69 Brake light and wheel traces

Lecture 70 Pieces of Glass via CC Particle World

Lecture 71 Smoke via Fractal Noise

Lecture 72 Adding damage to the hood

Section 11: Even more TOOLS

Lecture 73 All-inclusive package Envato Elements and Transition extension in After Effects

Section 12: Conclusion

Lecture 74 Thank you

After Effects newcomers who want to build comprehensive knowledge and understanding in a complete course.,After Effects advanced users who want to learn even more about techniques, effects and develop deeper knowledge.