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1. Trailer: Welcome to Adobe After Effects, Back To School Class one
Overview of the software. The Adobe After Effects
Back To School Course, is designed to guide users through the essentials of one of the most powerful
software programs in the film and video industry,
Adobe After Effects. This comprehensive
course is ideal for anyone who is
new to After Effects and wants to learn how to create professional-quality motion
graphics and visual effects. The course covers everything
from the basics of the interface to more
advanced concepts such as keyframe animation, compositing, and
special effects. By the end of the course, learners will have a
deep understanding of how to navigate the software, create complex compositions, and export their work for
use in other software. The first class begins with
an overview of the software, including terminology,
interface, and basic tools. Learners will gain an
understanding of how to create and organize
compositions, how to work with layers
and blending modes. The class covers the basics
of keyframe animation and how to create
motion graphics using presets and paths, learners will explore how to apply and customize a wide range of effects and filters to
create stunning visual effects. Throughout the course, learners will have the opportunity to put their skills into practice with hands-on exercises and projects. By the end of the course, they will have created
a portfolio of work to showcase their
newfound skills. The Adobe After Effects, Back To School Course is suitable for anyone
who is interested in creating high-quality motion graphics and visual effects. Whether you are a
freelance designer, filmmaker, or video editor, this course will equip
you with the skills and knowledge needed to take
your work to the next level.
2. Instalation: Okay, So our training, we will start from
downloading After Effects and install it on
our PC so we can download the software from
adobe.com and on the website, we need to search
for After Effects. In this course, I will use
the After Effects, say 2019. And from the link
you can download it. When you entered the website, you have the Free Trial button
on the top-right corner, and we can click on it. After that will be redirect to the new website with
two possibility. On the left side you
can see that you can instantly start to download
only After Effect. And on the right side, you have option to download
Creative Cloud all apps. The left side, you have
also information world. These include it,
step-by-step tutorials, 100, Cloud Store on profile
website and premium fonts. On the right side, you
have information that in Creative Clouds you
also get After Effects. Premiere, Photoshop,
audition, Premier Pro and Character Animation
and more. What's more? On the bottom side, you have the price that
you can pay by month. The $21 is only
for After Effects. And 52 point 1990s for
Hall Creative Clouds. Here we start with
one After Effects. You need to insert here
your email address, and from the right site
you need to select what's to be your plan for. Pay. You have monthly monthly plan where you can pay each month. I know our plan where you
by every three or 4 mol. And the last one is
if you want to pay the whole price for
the whole year. So it depends what
you are interesting. You can choose some of this because it depends from your company
or from your needs. Okay, and the resource
information that the first week is for free. So After that, we
need to click to continue to download
the software. There is also one more option. You can download the
offline installer from, in from adobe.com and you can download it to
if you're installer. So here we need to
choose the language and delocalization of
our instalation. I recommend to use the
default delocalization. And after that, you need
to click to continue on this blue button
on the bottom. And in the next lesson, we will start with working
with After Effects
3. Introducton: So welcome one more
time in After Effects. And this time I would
like to make you some presentation
about this software. So After Effects is the software to create this mostly special
effects for your movie. From 2019. This software belong to huge package which is called
Adobe Creative Cloud. At the beginning
After Effects was developed by the compounding
of Science and Art. And we have some
versioning history. And the first one was developed by company
of Science and Art. And diversion tool was
developed by aldose. And from the version free, it's instantly
developing by Adobe. And what is more before 2012, the full name was After
Effects CS and from to Todd. From 2012, the new name
is After Effects CC, which is mean a Creative Cloud. So Adobe Creative Cloud offer four buckets if we talk
about the software. So there is the
photograph in fact that include Photoshop CC
and Lightroom CC. For those people who don't know, Lightroom is poor version of
Photoshop and it's of course much cheaper and it's do not
require so many knowledge. There is also
single application. So it's mean that we can, by each of applications
separately. Unfortunately, we don't have possibility to, by its lifetime, we need to pay in a few
different possibility, which I showed you
in the video before. There is also Creative Cloud, which mean all in one, we by all the package at once. There is also the
package which is called or UPS plus Adobe Stock. And in this packet, to understand that we
get Creative Cloud and access to the service
which offer Adobe, which is called Adobe Stock. In the Adobe Stock service, we can find lots of
useful image presets, footage that we can
buy it and we can use normally in our work. Adobe Creative Cloud offer
a few different categories. The first one is still image. So mostly we work here with
the image and the race. Photoshop, Lightroom,
Lightroom, Classic, Illustrator, InDesign,
and dimension. Next we have the
package for video, and there is Premiere
Pro After Effects. And Premiere Rush. There is also package for web, which is called Acrobat Pro and DreamWeaver and Spark In
respected for animation. So the call for this
software is Animator, Character and Animator fuse. There is also some software to convert a video
to other formats, or for example,
to organize work. So we have the bridge which can help us in
organize our files. Media Encoder, which is used to convert media from
different format to other. And there is also pro route that we can insert in our videos. So some metadata that we allow us in the future to better
work with our footage. There is also one software which is very well-known
and very good to create or to edit our audio. And the software is
called audition. About this audition, it's work mostly like Premiere
Pro for footage. We don't create,
hear the music from the beginning because this is not software to
develop the music, but it's rather software
to assembly the music And there is one more
section which is for copywriters and the software
is called Inc copy. Okay, so very often
there is one question. What are the different between After Effects
and Premier Pro? So After Effects
is the software to create Effects and Premier Pro is software to
assembly everything. So for example, if
you would like to add text for our footage, of course we can do it in both in After Effects
and Premier Pro, but it's easier and it gives you more possibility to create very nice looking text
in After Effects. The same is with
assembly the clips. So for example, we can
make some assembly in After Effects and
also in Premier Pro. But in Premier Pro will do
it much better, much faster, and there is much more
user-friendly interface about the competitors
for After Effects. So the biggest competitor on the market for the
After Effects is new, created by their founder. New can't After Effects. They are both software
which are treated as a standard in industry and some company
use After Effects, after use, Nuke After Effects is mostly use for agency that specializes in some
advertisement. The new keys rather use. For movie industry. There is also final cut. Davinci Resolve, Sony Vegas Pro, apple motion or blender? Yes, I know that blender is mostly used for
modelling for D, but it has also possibility to create some Effects
for 2D video. So what are the base difference between After
Effects and the nuc? So for After Effects, after Effects work
as a layer based. So it's mean that you create the layers
like in Photoshop. And the layer that
is on the top. It will be visible and
all the layers that are under our became invisible. And this is mostly how
After Effects work. So you can assembly
everything by adding, masking or other options that
you will see in the course. There is also one huge
advantage for After Effects. There is a lot of plug-ins, plug-ins that we can divide
into two different category. One, plugins are used to
make your work faster. And other category are
the plug-ins that are used to create
additional effects. That will be very hard
to do it with vow, without it, with the standards
tools in After Effects. So plugins you can also
buy in internet or you can find some of them as a free, because some plugins
are free to use, some you need to buy. And of course, some
of the plug-ins are very, very expensive. The New York is
not based system, so it means that you create different nodes and after that, you connect those nodes
together, refer Footage. So it means that for example, if you create some
color correction, then you need, you can just connect this note
with different footage. And you can then control, for example, color
effects only in one node. And this will have impact for all the footage that are
connected with After Effects. To come to control,
for example, color, you need to copy the layer
to the different footage. For example, After duct is very hard to control all of them we for once buttons
or when f1 settings. What is more important? The new book is very
spit in his work, you can create really
amazing footage with a lot of different Effects. And this work is very
fluent and very, very fast. So this is why it's mostly
used in movie industry. Okay, So I also prepared some
screen on the left sides, you can see the layers
from After Effects. So as you can see, there
is a lot of layers and layers that are
on top are visible. Everything that is
under are invisible. With the new condo right side, you can see that we have
the notes and those nodes are connected together. And thanks to that, you can, for example, control with one nodes a
lot of Footage at once. So this is also very
interesting and useful. So it depends. Some people like to work
on Layers, other nodes. And of course the
price is different. So I remember
correct the new keys more expensive than
After Effects. So thank you for
attention and we can start to work
with After Effects
4. Interface: Okay, This time we
start with interface. When you first start
After Effects, you will get the
home popup window. This window we're on
the left side too, can start your home
or in settings. If you have the account
on Adobe Cloud, you can, since it here. There is also possible to
start the new project open. You're exiting project
under-resource. So option two, new team
project and opened in project. The team project also
work if you have the R console on adobe clouds, can you can exchange the
information from your file between other people
that you cooperate with. This window will
open every time you will start your After Effects. Okay, so now we will close it. And this you can
see here we have the mind window of our
After Effects software. So in the center, you have to mine button to
start in composition or new composition from footage. This is also new option
and this is hole. All the window that you can
see are set as default. So every time you will
start After Effects on other PC or as a fresh install, this localisation of window
will be your default. So every time if you change
something in the window, you can Back to the beginning and ordering those
will be setting again in the same localization
as you can see right now. So you can see that
this is called default. On the left side, we have the main window which
is called project. Into this window, we loaded
or our footage or image. On the bottom line
we have timeline where we can switching time on our footage that we
can learn from our project. And these two windows, timeline and project will be or mania and you will
mostly use all of them. Everything that will appear, will appear in
this center window where you can start
your composition. On the right side, you
can see that there are a lot of bookmarks or shortcuts. You will use it to start
with some effects. On the top you can
see or standards, many like file edit, Composition layer and many out there that you will also
use during your work. Below is the first
and mine toolbar. And here we have most
common function that will also use in state
of default option. We can also switch to other workspace that are
dedicated to some work. So for example, the
first one is learn. When we switch to learn, you can see that we have in new windows settings
and on the left side, we have some basic information
for our After Effects. The next one is
the standard one. So the standard is little
difference from default. This will set your window
in different position. Next we have small screen. This is mostly
used, for example, for laptops because laptops as smaller screen and there
is also libraries. With the libraries you
have fast taxes or to all your file or composition
that are located. Adobe Stock or an Adobe account. If you have it. When you click on this arrow, you have more workspace
like all panels. So right now you can see all the panels from
the right side, you have workspace dedicated one in four, create animations. So we have all the
unnecessary windows open for animations,
essential graphics. So this is mostly when you
will work with some graphic. There is also other workspace. But mostly for this course, I will use the default here. For example, we have Lumetri Scopes that are
used to correct the colors. The next star for
FX, the minimal, if you only need all
the necessary windows. The paint, for example, to draw something and
for creating text. And there is also one more
motion tracking to track or the animation on our Footage. So we have also workspace
dedicated only for these works. And we have also edit
workspace where we can make some modification in
existing workspace. And we can add or remove some windows Back
to our default. And as you might noticed, we can change the
localization of each window by ourselves, which is very easy
and intuitive. Everything will do
just with the mouse. So when we left-click
on our windows, for example, that we select, for example, the project
and will hold the mouse. You can see that we can
change the position. And when we hit the mouse
and we thought we can switch it to different or
snap it to different edges. So for example here,
and as you can see, we have project in
the middle one and the rest of the Windows has
been automatically resize. We have also
possibly to reset to saved layout, our workspace. Save changes to this workspace, or save as a new workspace or also edit existing workspace. For example, I will save
this workspace as a new one, and I will set it as a one. Click. Okay? And every time
I'm go to Windows workspace, I will get the one. And if I will switch
to other workspace, I have always
possibility to Back to my saved workspace
that for example, I prepared to my work every time you can raise
it to your default. Personally, I don't switch
match between workspace. I don't use my Safed. I mostly use the default. And the same will be
for holiday cards
5. What the Composition is: Okay, This time I'm
going to talk about the composition
in After Effects. So every time you
would like to add or insert any of your
Footage image or five, you need to first
create the composition. So to rot any file you
can use the import or you can use drag and
drop from your Windows. You can move the mouse. You can input all your files
directly into the project. The project is the one window. You can insert
anything from your PC. When you right-click
in projects, you have also option to create new composition
about this function. I will talk in the next lesson. But there is also possibility
to create a new folder. So for example, if you
create new folder, it's working the same way
as in your PC computer. You can, for example, change
the name and the folder, insert any other file. You can also create new
Adobe Photoshop file. Because After
Effects, very good. Cooperate with Adobe Photoshop. And there is also possible to create the Maxon Cinema
4D file because cinema is also varying
software to cooperate with After Effects
in a few modes. Also, the model
will be added here, but this is still not
confirm information. But if you know seen
MIT's very good because they work
really awesome. You can also import a
single file, multiple file. You can also import
anything from your libraries from
Adobe account. So for example, from this
bookmark on the right side, there is also possible
to import any file from Adobe Premier Pro project, very likely into After Effects and after you make any
changes in Premier Pro, it will automatically
appear in After Effects. You can also import
other project that has been my thing After Effects, this is also very useful. You can also lot
vanishing point. Vanishing points you can
create, for example, in Photoshop to
create, for example, surface that will be in the same positions
as, for example, war on the building
can After that, you can wrap this vanishing
point into After Effects. And this is very good if
you want to place anything, for example, on building. You can also create
the placeholder. Placeholder is something which is called missing
name or missing file. And dismissing file is
created specially because now you can use this file into your footage,
into your project. And when you are done, you can replace
this missing name, this missing file with
your final project. For example, there
could be situation that you create the project
but you don't have. Finally, for example, record some project with the
physical camera so you can start to work with
your existing. And at the end you can also
lot your final footage. There is also possible
to create a solid. Solids are the frame or it's the still image
with some colors. So very often you will
need some background, then you will use
this solid because a solid color to
create some image. And as you can see, you can also drag and drop any file from your computer Windows
directly into the projects. You need to wait for few seconds until it will
be incorrectly loaded. Now I will select all of
them and I will removed. So now we have footage. The footage is a straight clip that will be used
to our final work. After Effects can lot, a lot of different type of
extension like Mp4 way. For many, many, there is
really a lot of possibility. And we can drag this footage
directly into our timeline. And when I drag it and
drop it with my most, it will appear on
the right side. So this means that we are
in the mind composition. And this compositions right
now has only one file. This file is directly
from the GoPro, as you can see in
state off my Footage, there has been also
created the composition. As you can see, the Composition
is with different icon. And this composition right
now include only one file. And I can a lot, also a lot of different. When I double-click
on my footage, you can see that
right now I am in the Footage GoPro editor. So this means that I
can make some edits and some modification for my footage before I will use it
in my final work, for example, I can just reduce
the time or many other. So I just remove right
now my composition. And as you can see,
I can also create the composition from
this to mine bottom. There are two difference
between create new composition and create
Composition From Footage. So when I hit the
new composition, I get the new Windows Popup where I need to set every
frame from the beginning. So it means that I need
to set some resolution, background color
firmer at frame rates. Timecode. I can also set some
advanced options. But if I select my Footage and when I drag and drop it directly
into the timeline, them It's mean that my
composition has been created from the footage. I will just remove
the sound right now. And as you can see
when I hit the plate, there is the green
progressive bar that will render my Footage. To have the real time preview, you need to have a
lot of RAM in your PC because After Effect is the software data is
very ramp consumptive. It will use also your CPU. The GPU is in the bathtub taste. You can also use the GPU, but mostly After Effects, use RAM and CPU to work
6. Create Composition: Okay, So this time I
will explain you how to create a new composition
in a correct way. So we click on the
new composition and we have some setting. The first one is the
composition name. This is straight,
easy because you need to put here some name. I advise to put
their name that will exactly describe what this
composition is about. Because when you have
a lot of composition, it is hard to find,
which is what? We have some tabs, basic advance and 3D render. We started with the basic. So the first thing that we need to select these the presets, and we have preset divided
in to the few category. The first one is
possibly to choose between an DSC and pile. It depends what system you use. The next one, our
standards, one, like 720 or ten. At the next we have
some foolhardy with four K resolution or even eight K. So for
this resolution, you need to have really good
computer at the end to have some Cinema Composition data are used to create the movie. So as you can see
in a very fast way, you can choose
between many presets. If you don't want
to use the presets, you can manually set
the width and height. There is also a possibility
to look the aspect ratio. So if you, for example, have this option to none, and by changing only
the one dimension, the second will be
automatically calculated to get the proper ratio
between the dimension. And of course, when you
manually switch them, the preset will be
also change to custom. The pixel aspect ratio. Here we have possibly to
choose the different systems, so it depends which
one we need them. We need to select
the correct one. Then we have the frame rate,
very important option. We set how many frame rate we want to have for
our composition. And we have two systems, drop frame and non drop frame. The frame is not a current. So this means that, for example, one minutes will not be
the same on our timeline. So this is when we use
drop frame and this system is use the probability United States and we
have non drop frame. This is very accurate. So it means that
we've one minutes, we have exactly 1 min
on our timeline and non-drug frame we will
use in this course and also advise to use only non and drop frame resolution
for this composition, we can switch between different
quality of our preview. If we switch to the full, then we of course need
a lot of RAM to get the whole quality
preview on our timeline. Of course, this option, we can also switch on
our timeline every time. Then we have the
start time code we can set here when our
composition will start on, on our timeline and duration, how long it will work
on our timeline. So we can also set the
duration of our Composition, and there is also
background color. So we can choose it
manually or from the, from this color selection. Or we can use the color picker. Color picker. We can select the color from
other composition. In the adverse tab, we have set the anchor point
about the anchor points. I will talk about this later. We have also two
option preserves frame rate and preserves
resolution when niece that those options are
mostly used when you import some footage with different resolution or
with different frame rates. So it is good to tune it on only if you lot footage
with different value, the motion blur, you can
set the motion blur here, but about the motion
blue regular talked about this lighter and
3D render because we can also at the camera to our footage or the objects them, we sometimes need to switch the render engine me because the classic 3D render
are limited in some way. And for example, we need
to switch it to other if you want to get some
different results. A, the problem with
their renders engines is that when you
switch to other, sometimes you will
get a new option, new possibility, but
you can lose some Other one from the
previous engine. So the engines are
different will give you different possibility and they also have different limitations. So you must remember about this. For example, if you
switch to Cinema 4D, you can see on the bottom box what you
will get the enable, but what will be disabled. So this means that you will lose some of the opsin
and possibility. So it must be very careful about this and choose
only this one that you are sure that
you will need to for your presentation
or for your work. Okay, here we have
also the shortcut, a shortcut to create a new
folder in a very fast way, we can rename it, for example, I will set it to come
and we'll drag and drop. I can select some
Footage and drop it to my further to get
better organization. What's more? I can
change the color for my folder and for my footage. I can add some comments. I can check what type is it, what is the size, also the Footage
and the duration, and the file path
for where it is localisation on my PC when
you select your footage, you can also check the
properties of this clip. So for example, by selecting your Footage and
click on the first option, and then you would get
the new window pop up, which is called
interpret footage. Mostly what you
can do here is to switch the frame rate
because you must know that or the Footage should has
the same frame rate to get the better
results and to avoid any issue and problem
in the future. We can also create a new
composition from footage. When you choose this
option, them After Effects, automatically take
the resolution and frame rate from
the ordinal Footage. Don't need to put it
manually on your work. So for example, here we have
Composition From Footage, and as you can see, we have our composition, we for K resolution
because After Effects automatically
take it from footage. And you can see that
there is with 3,840. But for example, if we
select the comp one, this is composition that
we make manually and I will insert my GoPro clip. You will see that the
Composition is too small for my clip because clip is
in for K resolution. So you can see the difference between them if I will, switch. So we must remember that
two different resolution. You need to scale clip into
your composition settings. So for example, I have
one Composition Settings. We've higher resorption
and the second one, with the lower one. What is more important for the video editor or personal
who specializes in video, it is much better to have
all the footage in poor guy, because as you can see now I can change the position
and I still see the footage on my screen
is why for K is very good, reasonable resolution and that should be use every time
you create your work. The problem with the four K
resolution is that when you buy the footage with this
resolution, very expensive, there is not marked
hardware like camera that you can create that video in for K if they are also very expensive
and they're for K, you need to have really good computer PC
with many, many rum. Because without amount of RAM, you will notice that
this green progress bar will render very, very low and you will not
see Realtime Rendering. Okay, So this is
everything about the creating composition
in After Effects
7. Missing footage: There will be a lot of time that you will just try to open some project from other computer or when you just switch
localization of Fahrenheit. And when you open the project, you will see that for
Footage will get this icon. This means that the fight with your footage has been moved
to add localisation or jazz has been delayed or many other as there
could be situation. It means that the link
between the final end After Effects has been broken
and we need to fix it. There is a lot of
possibility to fix it. One of the most easiest is to right-click on your Footage. And there is often
to reload Footage. Sometimes there could be
situation that After Effects in the wrong way to write to the Footage so you
can reload it again. If this won't help them, there is replaced footage. And After, click Replace
Footage and select the file, you will see the
Explorer Windows Popup. And from here you can
select your file. As you can see, the
missing file is 1991, so I you selected and there
is information that After FX also found the rest of the missing file and
we'll replace it. So this is very good
situation because you don't need to individually select each of the missing file. Even if they are all in
the same localisation, After Effects will do
it by himself and we'll replace or your file just
in a blink overnight. So this is a very
useful and very good. When we reload our Footage. It is recommended
to save your file. You can say with
different names, you can just save it as
a copy or as XML file. Or there is also possibility to save the lower version
of After Effects. So you can save it to 2015 or 2014 because there
is other encryption of the file and you
cannot directly lot the file from upper version
into the lower one. So to save it, okay, So this is everything
about missing file
8. Keyboard shortcuts: This time we will focus
on keyboard shortcuts because the software like
After Effects or for example, Premier Pro have a lot of
different keyboard shortcuts. And keyboard shortcuts
are very important to speed up your work or sometimes to find
the correct options. If you don't find it
in standard toolbar. We're going to keyboard
shortcuts from edit. In the new window, you will see that there is the keyboard. On the right side.
You can switch to your language if English
is not your default. And at the beginning, we always start too, if After Effects
defaults keyboards, if you want to use our own, we first we need to save it. So here we just put some name
for our keyboard shortcuts. And the first thing that
we need to do there is also switched to
the correct command that we are interesting. For example, I will show you the timeline
panel, timeline panel. And this is the
window on the bottom that you can use to
move or near footage. And here you can see are the shortcut will go
back to the application. For example, if
you want to check all the shortcuts connected
to control buttons. So you select the
control and how you can see all the shortcuts in After Effects that
are connected with the control keyboard button. And when, for
example, select the, see them, you can see
some more information. For example, if you
select only see, then you will tune on the
camera in After Effects. If you hold Control plus C, Then it's mean that there
is the copy common. So this is standard copied
that we know from windows. In the below you can see all other combination
with the C keyboard. For example, when you
hit the Alt plus C, There is nothing will happen with the
shift and C then you also switch to camera and many other
functions that you see. You can also see in
the listed below. If you were Example,
want to search for some common to just put
it in the search bar. And here you can see
that we have the open and the standard
is Control plus, oh, this is standard shortcuts
that is use only for open. So right now I will click
on it and I will add, for example, space button. So this means that right now to run the command open project, we need to heat space
and control class. Oh, if you want to end-all, you can do it on the right side or you
can select the clear and to set default option for
your function or comments. So as you can see, the comma and keyboard
shortcuts are very useful and they interface here
is very user-friendly. So I recommend to use the
Text more as you can. And sometimes if you
will use some function very often than it is good to
attach it to some shortcut
9. Setup Preferences: Okay, So right now we will
talk about the Preferences. Preferences you can find
tin Edit preference and to start with General
tab because as you can see, there is a lot of
tapping After Effects. So when we hit the general
will get the new popup window. And in general, we mostly use option connected,
for example, with timeline or with some option that would
use it during our work. The next on the left side, we have the preview. The preview tab is
connected to if our preview in real time. So we can choose, for example, the quality of our view and to what would be used to generate
it this view in real time, we have to option, we have CPU and GPU at the
beginning, who we see that? How many total and memory
we have them there is OpenGL and CUDA. Cuda is use for
generate real time. And we have also the ray
tracing and we can use CPU processor from
our computer or GPU. This mean that
graphic card bills. As you can see, the GPU is much faster, but it is untested and sometimes on support
for some graphic cards. And this can also generate you some issue or errors
during real time because GPU is still in beta
test or something like this. So mainly for your final image, you should use CPU for preview. You can switch sometimes
to GPU Display. And this is mostly to set
some options for keyframe, motion path, how they
should look on our project. Import, how our footage
will be imported, output, how to save our project. We can set Here's some option, a Grids and Guides. This is very useful
during our project. If you, for example,
want to add shape, then we can use grid or guides. And we can set here
the dimension, the colors, and all the options
connected to that labels. If we want to have better
organization for our files, we can add the labels
and here we can set the name and
color for our labels. So later we can in a very
fast way switch between them. Media and this sketch. Here we can set the information
how many storage from our disk on PC we can
reserve for After Effects. Right now you can see
that I have almost 40 gb. I also recommend
use this amount. There is also localization or
I can set the empty sketch. So for example, if I have
a lot of information, I can delete them, but it is not
recommend to delight it until your project is ended. Because sometimes to speed
up our work After Effects, just save everything
on the media. Video preview. This is mostly use if you
have more than one monitor, then you can change how
the Adobe will work. For example, for two
monitors, for one appearance. This is, for example,
for brighteners darker. So you can change the view
of your After Effects here. New project. So for example, if you want to add some templates for your, every new project, have
the same and options. Autosave it is due to
have autosave for me it's 20 min because sometimes could happen that After
Effects will crash because we use sometimes footage we
for K For example, memory. Here we have information, how many RAM we have installed, and how many RAM
will be reserved for other applications like
Photoshop, BI Premium. It is good to add as many RAM as possible
for After Effects, because After Effects is huge
amount of RAM concepting. So for the Adobe, After Effects should as possible to get as small
as it only possible. For example, I have most phone After Effects
and sampling for Premiere Pro or audition because I use in the same time
together maybe with Photoshop. So this is why I reduce
the RAM reserved for the application only to 6 gb. So it depends how many
RAM you have installed. But for example, if
you have something about 42 like on
the screen here, than it is good to
have 6 gb result for other application to work
quite smooth audio hardware. So we set here are the hardware information about
our audio, audio output. It's also connected with
the audio settings. Since settings, what you want to synchronize with
our Adobe clouds. A Type about the text and gene forms and scripting
and expression. Because in After
Effects we can also just write some scripts and expression in language
which is used in After FX. See JavaScript. And we
can adjust some colors, fonts for this expression here. Okay, So I shown you
all the options. And we can also switch to exactly some bookmarks by
going to prefer us and SELEX, each of these sub
many individual. So this is everything
about the Preferences
10. Timeline: In this part I'm going
to talk about timeline, one of the most important
tool window that you can find exactly here. Okay? So as you can see now, I have empty space, so I will just drag
and drop my movie from my library directly
to the timeline. And as you can see, it will automatically
generate new item. And we have the timeline
here in this window. And as you can see
with this slider, I can move on my footage. I will also change the duration and that will
change it into reframe. But about this, I
will speak later. Okay, So as you can see, when you move this
slider to the right, and then you also change the position in your
time in your footage. When you hit the
plus middle mouse, you will just zoom
in or zoom out. ****, it is easier, for example, to move just in few frame
to the forward or backward. So, and this shortcut will be use very often
in this course. And the next one, we can always use page up just to move by one
frame a backward, or with the page down
with one frame forward. So with the shift and patch up, you will just jump by
ten frames backward. And we've achieved
and page down, you will go by ten
frames forward. So this is most useful when you criticize,
modify some footage. As I told him many
times before, Dr. Effects is layer base, so it's mean that the
footage that will be on the top in our timeline
window will be visible. So you can see that
my footage that I added is with a
smaller resolution. And if I just use the
middle mouse button, I will also zoom in and zoom out also in this view window. To fix the resolution
of my footage. I can do it in many
different way. So for example, I can use this rectangle that you
can see in each corner. And we've done mouse, I can just try to fit
it into my composition. Of course, I increase
the size of my footage and it will also reduce
the quality of the video. So this is very
important and try not to increase the size of footage if you don't have
and if you don't have to. For example, if you need
to reduce the size, you can do it
without any problem. But if you need to do it, but to increase the
size, you must. Always remember
about this quality. And with the slider, I can just jump into
different time of my footage. This you can see
every time you will hit the spacebar on keyboard. And After Effects, we'll
start a render this. So now we will just discuss all the function
that we have here. So the first option is to make
some layer visible or not. So if we want to show it, we need to tune it on. And then we have the option to, to know or to know the
sounds from the clip. So this is very useful,
especially for example, if you record something, Can I want to show
you the footage? Next, we have option
to, to nano solo. So for example, if my layer, which is under, I can isolate
and work only with it, then I have the log. So I can look at some layer. So this means that I can
do any modification. Next I have arrow, which show me two option
transform for creating different movement affect
and to adjust the audio. Audio we can set, for example, the audio levels are, see how the waveforms look like. Next we have the
color selection, so it is here to
display on timeline. Then we have the number, which layer we have the name of the layer
and demoed in the mouth. We have the blending options, so people who use Photoshop, they probably know
it how to use them. I will talk about the blend
mode in other lessons. And I can only show you that This option is used to
blend, for example, a few clips hit together
to make some transparency. The different options
work in a different way. And every time it depends
how our footage look like. If it has, for example, a lot of different color, for example, one black and
white. About the blend point. We'll talk later. Here you can to know not
enough transparency. There is also track
might Parent Link, how to connect. Fuel layers together. About the cyber
also speak lighter. And we have option to more
options like comments, switches, keys, and
many, many more. So for example, right now
I turn on other columns. This means switches. They can also use this button below to two non-tone
of more switches. And those switches we use
also in a different way. For example, for to run
motion blur to create the color correction or to convert our to delay or into 3D. Because After Effects also offered to work with 3D objects. So every time if you want to reduce the options
because they, for example, take
too much place, you can tune it on and turn
it off. In this sub menu. With the in, we can see where our layer starts on our
timeline and when it's, and there is also duration, how long it's take
the stretch. Stretch. We can increase the
speed or decrease it. There is also option to expand or in the function
with this free buttons. So if we don't, of all of them, then we have only the
minimum size of our window. In the bottom. You have also the slider that you can
zoom in or zoom out. So this work in the same way, F Art on keyboard plus a middle mouse at
this will give you to work more with more
precision on the timeline. So if you need to change, for example, your
speed by frame. Together with
tailwind, will also use the preview window
that you can see. It's looked like this. And on the top we have some
button that we can use, for example, to move to the first frame of
our composition. We can go back by one frame. There is also option to go
to the next frame by one, by one and just jump to the
last frame in our preview. And we can just play
or stop our footage. We can also change and the shortcut for the play
standard spacebar, but we can, for example, change it into other keyboard button
that would like to use. We can also include the view of layer sounds and to non
guidelines for example, or mask during the preview. We can also run the loop. So it's mean that if we go
to the end of our Footage, them After Effects will start to play it
from the beginning. This is mostly used if we have very short clip catch
before payback. So every time you will
start to play your footage, you will see this green line. This mean that After Effect, Generate or render your footage. If you have very speed
computer, of course, this green line will
appear in render time, but sometimes if you add a lot of different effects there
under will be very slow. So if we want to have
whole render before Play, you can use sketch
before payback. So this means that After Effects first will try to render or the Footage and it will
play it in real time. The next option is to set
how much we want to render. So we can use early
only work area. So this means that the render will be where my blue slider Standing, there could be work area extend and
by current time. So this means that After
Effects will render few frames that are forward
before it starts to play. Hold the footage, or we
can set entire duration. So does it mean that
hold the scene, hold the footage or hold the composition will
be first render. And After it will
be finished them, it will be polite. So then we will get
the real time preview. And the next function
we have play from, we can start from, for example, different range, or we can start to play
from current time. So from Quran tie, its mean that it will start from our blue slider that you
will set on your timeline. So this is mostly use option. We can also change
the frame rates. We can, for example, skip some frame to
speed up the rendering. And we can set the resolution, but normally it will
be set to auto. We can also apply the preview
with the full screen, but this will be also worry, memory consumption
for our computer. And the last option if
catching, play catches friends. So this mean if
the After Effects will render some of the frame, it will start to play it and
move time to preview time. So this means that when
we just stop playing, the slider will be moved to
the place where we just. And so this is also very useful when you work
in After Effects. There are two shortcuts. So when you want
to start to play, you hit the space. But if you want to start
render from the beginning, you need to hit zero
or new or keyboard. So this time, After Effects will render your footage
directly from the beginning. So from my experience, I can tell you that if
you have very short clip, it is better to use
entire duration. So this means that every
time you will hit Space, After Effects will render
your clip from the beginning. But if you have a little slower
computer or for example, we have a lot of effects
it is worth to use War korea extended
by current time. So this means that
we said the slider directly in some
time on timeline. And after heat run space, After Effects will start to
render it and we'll plate. This is everything about
timeline in After Effects
11. Anchor Point: Okay, So if any footage or anything directly
into After Effects, you will see that there are nine different shades,
small shape elements, like for example, a rectangle in each corner and this
small circle inside. So when you with the mouse
select the rectangle, you can see that
we've the shift. By pressing Shift,
you can change the size with keeping the ratio. Without the shift, you will have it but without the
ratio with the Art first, you set the size
of this rectangle. And after that,
After Effects will try to fit your composition
into your selected rectangle. With the left rectangle, you can change the
size the same with the upper and lower bar. You change the size of the footage we've
keeping the ratio. If you, for example, your footage and you don't
want to manually fit this, you can do it with
After Effects. So you need to
right-click on it, go to Transform and
select Fit to Comp. Now After Effects automatically fit the size to
your composition. And the last point is
called anchor point. This is the center
of our footage. Before I will start to talk
how to modify enter point, I will start with this toolbar, the first one, the first
button is the home. After to return, you will
see the home screen. The next one is the
Selection tool. And if you select it and select the Footage
and move your mouse, you change the position
in your composition. So it means that you also move this footage
in your camera. The next one is the hand tool. The hand tool is used
to change the position, but it's, you can see footage
is still at the same place. Because you can, for example, outside your screen at a lot of other Effects and you can move it directly
to your camera. The next one is option
to create the Zoom. So if you want to zoom
in into your Footage and by holding Alt, you can zoom out. The next one is rotation tool. As you can see, your
footage is rotated in accordance to your anchor point. So this means that
anchor point is the middle point
of your Footage. And order modification
will be always made according to the place where is your anchor
point with the shift, you can rotate by 45 degree. At the next option
is for the camera. But about this, I
will talk later. And here we have the option to change position
of anchor Point. To change place of anchor Point, I recommend to use snapping
without the snapping. As you can see, we can change the position
of anchor Point, but it is hard to
put it, for example, in some unnecessary position. For example, if I rotate, you can see that rotation is in accordance
to anchor point. So if I want to place
it, for example, in this rectangle
or in the middle, it is impossible without the snapping,
snapping turned on. You can see that now I
have some guidelines that helped me to choose
the correct position. It is also snap to the
corner of my footage. So it is good advice to use position of anchor Point
together with debt snapping. Ok. This time I
have, for example, two different composition
and I would like to change the position
of my anchor point. You can see that
it is quite hard, so I will turn on
snap along edges. And right now I have some guidelines that
helped me, for example, to snap anchor points to
one edges and for example, to others center of
the second footage. So this could be also
sometimes very useful. There is also option to change the default position
of your anchor points. So for example, I will
create the new shape layer. Shape layer is used to
add some basic shapes. For example, I will
select Rectangle Tool and I will add some shape. Because you can see right now, if I select with why
my anchor point, you can see that anchor
point is as a default set in the center of
my whole composition, not in my shapes. So menu I have to
change their position. But there is also
option that we can go to edit preferences general. And we'll get the pop-up window. There is option in the general, which is called center anchor
point in new shape layer. This time we will turn
it on and we'll click. Okay. And every time you will
create the new shape. For example, rectangle, anchor point will
be automatically added to the center of this
shape and the second shape. And there is also
the anchor point. So this is very useful because if you
make any modification, you will do this
modification based on your anchor point
from each site. So sometimes it is work to use, sometimes nodes is depends. And now this is everything about the anchor point
in After Effects
12. Transformation: Okay, so every time you will add any footage or any elements
into After Effects, you have two possibility,
Mike, modification. When you hit this arrow, you will see that
there is option for transform and for audio. So it means that you can make some modification we've placed of your footage in
your composition, or you can tweak or
change the audio. So I will start with
audio because here we have only audio
levels and waveforms. And as you can see
with the audio levels, if you don't have
feasible all the options, there is no possibility to change any audio levels options, so we need to
expand our options. Then we can see that there is
the value for audio levels. The zero is the
standard default value. If you want, for example,
increase the sounds. You can also use the expression
because After Effects also offer some language that Java that you
can use to create some expression or more
advanced modification. So the standards with
the alveolar levels, you can increase or decrease it by changing to
the higher value or row it. So for example, I will also bent waveform to see how
the sounds look like. Now as you can see by
changing this value, also, you change the waveform. Graph visualization. This is about the audio and
now we have the transform. So the first one is
transfer for anchor point. So this means that anchor point stay in the same position, but we change the position
of our footage in according to our position
of anchor points. So this could be
sometimes useful. But if you want to
change position of ***** footage together
with anchor points, you need to use position and
you change it in X and Y. This Kyle, if you want
to scale your footage, there is also chain that you can see if you
turn it off them, you scale only in one exit. So this means that
you don't have the ratio was set at the
beginning of fewer footage. There is also rotation. So you can rotate your footage. Of course, with the plus
you rotate into right-side, with the minus, rotate
into opposite direction. There is also opacity
if you want to make your footage
more transparency, so you can change the
opacity in percentage them. 100 is the highest value. Okay, so for example, if I add more footage to my composition and
I would like to modify all of them
at the same time. I need to select them. And I need to use, for example, from my keyboard
to show me the position. And right now I can
modify the position. And as you can see,
this modification will be for all my layers. A is for anchor Point, as is for scale. And the same is with T opacity. So now I can change the transparency for
all my footage at once. And the last one
is R for rotation. So every time you will hate one of those keyboard shortcuts, you will get the modification. After Effects also offered a
lot of other transformation. So when we just click the right mouse and
go to the transform, there is the rosette, so it will recipe to our default position. Then we can flip
horizontal, our footage. We can do the same by flip
our Footage vertical. This could be also very useful. There is also center in view, so our clip will be center. There is also possibly to
center anchor point in layers. So this means that
our anchor point who will be set to the center. If our footage is too small, we can just go to the transform and tried
to use Fit to Comp. So After Effects will
automatically resize our footage to our
composition settings. There is also Fit to
Comp width or height. So this means that only in
one direction it will be fit. So sometimes, maybe you
need only to fit it. For example, in one axis, outer orient, this is how
to orient is set to off. This will help you, for example, to automatically set
correctly your Footage. Okay, So this is everything about the modification and
transforming After Effects
13. Clip lenght: Okay, so now there will
mean less than about the move through
length of the clip. So you can see in this
composition I have three different layer with
three different footage. To compare with
Adobe Premiere Pro. Changing the length in After
Effect is quite harder. This is because in Premier
Pro we treat each footage as a clip and we can just change the length of the clip
in a very simple way. Unfortunately, in After Effects, we work with layers. So this V To
complicate our work. So right now I will change the color of each
footage so it will be easier to see how they are
look like in our timeline. So right now, you can see that I have some length
of my composition. I have three different
footage here. Now I'm going to the
Composition Settings. I can also go here to the Composition Settings
from top money. And I will just changed
the drop frame and I will set the composition length. So it will be from a start
time code from zero. And I will set it to
2 min. I will hit OK. And now every time I'm
go on my timeline, you can see that there
is only one Footage, this one which is on
the top position. So I need to make
some modifications, transition that give me possibility to present all
the footage one by one. So here we will need some modification for
length of our footage. There is also one line
you can see on the top of my timeline that can also
use to zoom in or zoom out. There is also the lower line, which can give me possibility to set the length of my work area. If I will set this, for example, to one minutes, the store don't mean that my footage will end
only in this time. This is only use to mark my
work area on the timeline. If you want to
change the position of your layer of your footage, this is quite easy. You can first
select your Footage and on the timeline by
holding the mouse button, you can the position to
the left or to the right, the same with the longest
clip and to the smaller one. So in this situation, you can see that my
first clip will start from 5 s. So this means
that before this, I will get black screen. This is because black
screen is set as a default color in my
composition settings. If I hit Spacebar, you will see that from the
beginning they will be black. Of course, you need to disable catch before Payback. Okay? And now you can see in the beginning I
have the black screen. Then I will get the
footage with the car. I will have the sounds. Many times. There will be situation that
you will need to jump to beginning or to the end of
your footage or of your layer. This is possible with holding shift on keyboard and
there is snapping. Of course, this snapping don't have any connection
with for this one. This one on the top is only for any elements
in your footage. This is not snapping
for your timeline, so they are not connected. So this is only as information. So when you hold the shift them, your slider will be automatically
snap to the next layer, which is really useful and
very speed up your work. There is also possible
that you will first select your layer. And by holding eye
on the keyboard, you are going to the beginning. And by holding 0, you are going to the end
of your selected layer. So for example, we select
the middle layer and we hit a and 0 to
change the position. So this is very important
and very interesting. Of course. There will be In a situation
that, for example, some of your footage has the beginning that you don't
want to show to audience. There is very often that you input the After
Effect hold footage, but there is something, for example, at the
beginning or at the end. So in this one, I would like, for example, to remove the beginning. Can I want to show when
this balloon just start up? To remove the beginning, I need to set the position
of Slider and hit Alt plus left bracket. And you can see that a retina After Effect is
removed the beginning. Make some modification. And After Effects just
remove the parts. And for example, if you
hit Alt and right brackets and the rest that is outside the slider
will be also removed. And my clip is now
shorter than normally, which is also very useful to change the
length of the layer. If you don't like to use
the keyboard shortcuts, you can also use the
mouse and this arrow to re-size length of your footage with the holding the
Shift on the keyboard, you can automatically snap
it to your blue slider. So this is also very
interesting, okay, but as you can see
from the beginning, I have still the black screen. This is because I don't
have any footage here. So I can change the
position of my Footage and put it directly
on the beginning. Or I can use the
left bracket to tell After Effects to
automatically move my layer. So as you can see,
the balloons go up. And for example, I
will manually reduce the length to the slider. And now we can see
that later I get the black screen
because I don't have any footage or just here. So I can manually with
the Shift holding, move the position of my middle layer to get the
continuum of my movie. Or I can select my first layer, hit the 0 to go to the
end of my footage. Then I can select the middle
one and hit Left Bracket. So I'll After Effects will
automatically trying to position to my blue slider. And this will also give me
the continuity of my video. As you can see,
using the keyboard, shortcuts are very useful and will vary speed up your work
14. Cutting clips and Markers: We can change also
the length of the key by using different
methods of cutting. So for example, I will
select my footage, I will use the edit and
we have some options. The first one is duplicate. You can hit Control plus
D. And now our layer has been duplicated and you can do any modification
on the second layer, and the first one
will stay the same. So this is very useful. You can also duplicate into many and different
numbers of each layer. There is also the split layer. So for example, I have
selected my Footage, Now I will hit Split
layer and as you can see, those two layer are
secreted and I can do some modification on the first one and other
modification on the second one. And in the middle you can
see that I have still continue between two
different footage. Some person like
when they split it, layer is a bottom. So you can go to the
preference Generale and I'll select Create Split
layer above orginal layer. So when we turn this
option off and we hit, Okay, and I will remove my one layer and I
will again split it. You can see that
the second layer, which was splitted, is this
time put on the bottom. Personally, I don't
like this solution because in After Effects, everything that is
above is visible. So I have this option
always set to. And now every time
I'm split something, the next layer will
be on the top. We can select all. We can use the Control plus a on keyboard or we can
deselect everything. So sometimes you will
also use those option, for example, to
select everything. There is also work area. So for example, I will select the work area and you can see that the work area is
shorter than my whole clip. So right now when I
hit the spacebar, only the work area
will be rendered. I can also set B on
my keyboard or N to cut my work area
to the slider. This is very useful shortcut. There is also option to
trim comp to work area. So After hit this option, you will see that my
layer is shorter and only everything that was inside the work area has been
right now on my timeline. So if you want to change
the length of your clip, you can use or so work area. Okay, the next option
with the word area, we have selected
some work Korea. I will select layer and then
I will hit lift work area. And this is what happened. Every thing that was inside my work area
has been removed. My layer has been split
into two different and everything that was outside the work area stay
as it was before. So everything that was inside who was removed and
now we have the black screen. And there was some clip
also outside our work area. And it stay the same. So right now you can
add anything inside. So the next one is we select layer and extract work are real and this
is what happened. Our ray has been splitted
into two different one, everything that was
inside work area has been removed and they clip that
was on the right side. That was outside. Our work area has been automatically move
to the left sides so we still have the continuity and we don't
see the black screen. The last option is create a protected area from work area. So we have selected
for Korea and we set that this area
will be protected. So this means that if I make
any modification every time, I will have this work area
visible on my timeline. And this is useful, for example, if you need to remember that in this place you need to
at the end at something or this part is very
important for your footage. Of course, you can
change the position of this protected work
area with the markers. So After Effects also
offer Add to add markers. Right now, I will remove them. So I will do like this. Markers. Markers are very useful and you will
probably use them for more advanced project that has
a lot of different layers. To add Markers, you
need to hit the star on your keyboard and you
will add the marker. There is also possibility to
go to Markers, Add marker, Markers you can move or you're timeline without any problems. You can also change some parameters of Markers
when you double hit on it. You can set time when the markers will
appear on timeline. You can also set the duration of your marker how long it will
be visible on your timeline. So now you can see that Markers are for some
period of time, you can add the comments
that will be also displayed. You can add the specific color. And you can also set the Markers to be as
a protective aria. And for example, right now you
can see that in this time, something happened
on your Footage and this would be easier for
you to remember about this. So this is arithmetic
about the cutting clips, layers and at the Markers
15. Modify Footage: Okay guys, right
now I'll talk about the modification
and how to prepare the footage for most
of the time before you will add your footage to your final and I final assembly, you will probably need to
make some modification tweak lamp or something more. So as you can see right now, I have footage edit
to my assembly, and then I have also opened the window directly from my
library on the left sides. And I have the Footage
also open this window. So this is my mind composition. And here I can do all the
modification for my assembly. When I add the footage to my composition and if
I double-click on it, I get the new icon. And there is also new tab open. And so you can see that there is Composition window where I can make any modification
for my whole assembly. Footage modification that
comes from my library and layer modification
that games from my modification
in the composition. So as you can see, we have three different way
to edit any footage. And you must be careful which
you have open right now, and which you modify
the present time. And now I will show
you how to add some of the fight clip into
your assembly. So right now I have the
footage, we've the car. And what I can do is to set when this footage
we'll start because, for example, the
original clip for me, it's too long and I
don't need all of them. So I said the beginning
where it would be with the slider and I click on this icon with the
bracket left and right. Right. Now you can see that my
Footage start from 505 hour. This is because I
recorded this with GoPro. Gopro. So put some information
from the beginning, how long it takes to
record this Footage. And After Effects
also add this option. Here we have the duration, how long could this
footage will be? And now I'm going, for example, on my assembly to this time and I hit ripple, insert, edit. And this is what happened. My, my alt clip has been
divided into two separate file. And in sight, the race
clip with the car. It has been added
to my assembly. And what is more if
I remove the car, you can see that
there is the gap right now with the black screen. This is because my
car has been added. Insight. And there is
the second option. And it's work like overlap. So this means that the car
has been added to assembly. And if I remove it, I still have my old clip
without any black screen. Okay, now we are talking about the icon that we have in
the modification window. So the first one
is always preview the zoo if we turn this on. So it's not important in which window we are every
time we hit the spacebar, render will be only this footage with this option to none. So every time you want to get any preview and renders
After Effects will only show you this clip. The next one is primary viewer. This work with the camera if we have the camera
added to our sin. So with this option to non, always this Footage,
who will be random. The next option that
is used if you want to use some preview or render
for the glass if you use it. Next, we have Fit to Comp so
we can zoom, for example, our footage or use option
to fit to our window size. Mostly you will
use fit up to 100. Next, we can add the title. Them can then take
great guidelines. All these options are
useful if you want to, for example, be more precise
with adding some shapes. And you want to Put it exactly in
some dimension. So then you can
use those options. Next, if you want
to jump exactly To some time on our Footage
and take a snapshot. Take a snapshot is the function. So for example, we might
the snapshots they meet. And when I'm go to some time and when I
hit Show snapshot, I can compare the
difference frame, RGB. This is for onto know of
different RGB colors. The next option is to only
view some part of the renders. The next we have to switch
on or off the transparency. This is mostly use
if we have PNG file, then we can tune on or turn off transparencies
depends what we need. Next, we have the option to
aspect ratio correction. Sometimes when we look at
some footage, for example, from Adobe Illustrator, than
we can fix the pixel ratio. Next we have the exposure puncture or we can
increase or decrease it or residue to the
default settings. So this is everything about when the vacation, our
Footage separately. And we have some other icon
in the Composition Settings. Some of them are common, so I will just keep them. And we are right now
in the composition. And we're starting
from the left sides. I can tune on or turn off
the shape or mosque shapes. Then we have all the
options the same as before. Then we have the possibility to change the quality
of our renders. If we choose half, it will be worse quality, but with faster render, then we can change you
from different cameras. So this is mostly
use when we have the camera and we can also have more than one
view in our window. But this option is also used only if we have
camera one or even more. Fast preview if we also want
to speed up our renders so we can just change
the render quality. And then we can go
in the fast way to the timeline and
Composition flowchart. So this is mostly used if you have a lot of
difference effects, a lot of layers. And you want to check
how they are connected together so you can use
the flowchart sometimes. It could be very useful and the same as before
to control exposure. And the last option, so we double-click layer. So we have also
some modification, mostly are common but we
have additional switcher, two on top of the alpha. But about alpha, I will talk
about it in other lessons. So right now you
can see that there is a lot of possibility
to modify your footage
16. Sequence Layers: In the lessons before
I show you how to modify the clip on timeline and how to
connect them together. There is also option
in After Effects that software from Adobe can
create some sequence. So it means that it can create some assembly also with some
transition automatically. Okay, So as you can see, I have three different
footage here. And now they are set in
just a random position. So and now I would like
to make some assembly and to show it each of them
separately, one by one. So I select all the footage. I click right mouse button and I'm going to keyframe
assistant sequence Layers. Okay, right now we don't
turn any of this option. I will just click OK. Ok. And as you can see, After Effects, modify the
position of each layer. And now I have each of them one by one shown
on my timeline. So this is very useful and very fast to create
some assembly. Next we will use
sequence Layers again, but this time we will turn
on the overlap option. If we turn it on, there is option to set
duration how long overlap will take on our timeline. I said 15 s, and as you can see, now, each layers are start with some 15 s. Okay? Now I met also the transition. The first will be
dissolved from layer. So this means that there will be transition
between layers. But for few seconds it
will be also visible, the odd one and the
last option cross dissolved front and back layers. So now we have transition
where in few seconds I have all layers and the new
one will also appear. This transition is also
very useful to create nice looking movement between
two different footage. There is also option to
create the sequence Layers. When we create the
new composition. So I will select
all the footage. Next, I select New
come from Selection. This means that I'm going to
create the new composition based on my existing footage. So After that, we get the new window and
we need to select single composition or
multiple composition. Them. We want to take dimension, it mean resolution from, directly from one layers. So for example, in this time, I will select with
the four t5 ends. And I can also set the duration
of my new composition. I'm set it to five. If I want. Also to directly
edit render query. And there is also possible to
create the sequence Layers. So we'll select
overlap, duration, and we also Add
Transition After click. Okay. You can see that After
Effects automatically created a new composition
with the sequence layer. So you can see
that there is also transition with some over a, as you can see right now, I have the block border
with this layer. This is because I select
to create the composition based on bigger footage. Right now these balloons are this layer is
smaller than other ones, so this is why
there is no fitting to my mind composition. I have to do it manually. So this is what you must
remember about it, okay? This is everything about
the sequence Layers
17. Pre-Comp: In After Effects, you can create many different type of objects. There is a lot of options, a lot of possibility, and depends what
you exactly need. You can create, created
directly in After Effects. So for example, and you can see that we can create the new text. And this is separately
layer where we can only put some letters. There is also the solid
to create the new solid, also very often used. And by choosing
the correct color, we have the solid, the shape directly on our view. We can create the lights
for Video objects. We can at the camera. And null object. Null objects is the layer that don't do
anything by itself, but it can be connect
with other layer and we control,
then we'll object. We also control the child. We can create shape layer, and here we add
different type of shapes to our composition. And there is also
Adjustments layer, mostly tissues to fix the
color of our footage. About adjustment. I will tell you more
in other lessons. And we can also, it creates something which is called Content
Aware Fill layer. This is used to
feel, for example, gaps or some black screen that we have
in our composition. We can also create Adobe Photoshop file at
Maxon Cinema 4D file. You can see we have
different type of objects about most of them. I will speak later. But as you can see, if you
add more and more objects, it became more and
more advanced projects and it will be harder
to control it. This is why we have the
possibility to connect all selected layers and
convert them into their one. So for example, I
create pre-compose. This option is
called pre-compose. And the first we need to
select the name them we need to mark that we want to move everything inside
new composition. We can adjust the time. So for example, the
time we will be taken from the mine Composition. And we can select open new
composition after clicking. Okay. So right now I click Okay, and this you can see my
all three different for years has been now converted
into one composition. This is easier because
as you can see, I can very fast change
it on my timeline, I can change the position. And by double-click, enter inside my composition
where I have again, or we layer that I
connected together. Now, when I'm in precomposed, I can create any
modification Only for each of these
layer separately. And when I'm in the
mind composition, I can modify the
whole pre-compose. So this will give
me more control, or all three layers
at the same time. So as you can see, if I move the slider is also tend to position
on the main composition. Now, I can, for example, change in the very fast
way at the time of my precomposed by
changing this layer in my mind composition. So this is very
useful and you will probably use more and more
frequent words because it's will give you more control with many types of
layers that by, that are connected together. So this is a quite
interesting feature and this will help you to better organize your layers
in your projects. Precompose, I will use
very often in this course, so I hope that you
understand It's work and why we need
to this options. This is everything
about the precompose
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