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1. Introduction: Hello everyone and
welcome back to our term. This is your div and inside
Adobe After Effects. And as you can see in the title, this is the part one of Adobe
After Effects masterclass, which means that there
is a long quote that is named as Adobe After Effects
CC from zero to hero. And that is a masterclass. We have divided that masterclass into several parts to
make sure that you learn each and every
single thing inside that masterclass across
different classes. So what can you expect
from this class, as the title says, This is your day Verne
inside Adobe After Effects. So this is going to be
pretty basic and we'll be touching just the basics
of Adobe After Effects. And that is because when you
are new to video editing, or even if you are a
premier Pro editor and you jump into
Adobe After Effects, that seems really horrible. And that is because of the
interface of Adobe After Effects that is never familiar for a
regular video editor. Similar is the case
from people who are jumping from Adobe products
to DaVinci Resolve, But we are not discussing
that at the moment. So in this class, the first thing that you will be learning is that you can do it. You can learn after effects. You do not need to worry, you do not need to fear from the interface of
Adobe After Effects. In the same lecture in which we will discuss the interface, we will talk a bit about
the basic terminologies associated with After Effects
and even video editing. After that, you
will learn creating a composition and that
is going to help you a lot when you are
doing the deal stuff or YouTube stuff because you know which resolution to go for, which frame rate to choose, then you would just hop
into video editing. You will learn importing files. You will learn moving
and cutting the clips. You will learn how to use the layers concept
on the timeline. And then you will have a bit of idea about the basics of PSI, which we call as position,
scale and rotation. This will also lead you to some extent up
to the animation part. And in the end, you will learn Exporting the video inside
Adobe After Effects. So pretty much basic stuff. Which means that if
you have some clips recorded inside your
camera or your smartphone, you will be able to copy
them in your computer. I get them inside after effects
by putting them in front of each other on the
timeline, arrange them, cut apart of them, and then export them to create a happy slideshow or
a good looking video. So this will be pretty much it for this section or this class. In the upcoming section
or upcoming classes, we will be moving towards intermediate and
advanced level stuff. So this was all
for introduction. Let's just jump right into it.
2. Interface of Adobe After Effects: Welcome to Adobe After Effects. In this lecture,
we will be talking about the interface of
Adobe After Effects and a few terms associated with video editing and Adobe
After Effects itself. So first things first, then you fire up
Adobe After Effects. This is how it's
going to look like. So here you can see some of
the recent projects I have. These are just the name of the projects and it tells
how many months ago, how many weeks ago, how many days ago I open them. Here is the size and here is just the file extension
for those projects. You see on the left you have a new project loop
and Project button. These are used to create a new project and open
any previous one. You can just click
on New Project and the new project
we'll load here. And you can see that
here you can see on the top it says
untitled project. And this is because a
new project is being made inside Adobe After Effects. Next thing is, this is how you interface is
looking at the moment. Or maybe your interface
is not looking like mine. And that is because we both have a different workspace option
enabled for the moment. And here you can
see if you go in window and then workspace, then go for all panels or
default or any other option. Then we both will have same interface of
Adobe After Effects. For the moment. I will
go with the default. And now you and I have the
same After Effects interface, even if you don't have the
same interface as mine, even if you are on default, then just go to
Windows workspace and then press a reset
default to save layout. And then again, we
will have the same. So let's begin talking
about the interface. Now. On the top bar, you can see the software
name, software logo, along with the version of
the software I'm using 2020, then you have the project
name which we just created. If we save this project, the project name will change. And if we do something
inside this project, this name will be
followed by a star because that shows that your project is not
saved at the moment. And then when we will
save the project, that star will go away. Next thing is these buttons. These buttons
actually have all of the options you need to
use Adobe After Effects, you can click on them, they will expand, and then
you can just use any of them. And the funny thing is, all of these options are also present inside the interface. You can use them
anytime you have the same options at two places. The one in the interface
are actually more convenient and you can also
go with the options here. Or you can memorize the shortcut keys that are being displayed
in front of them. Next, you have this bar. This bar actually consist of a few tools you get inside
Adobe After Effects. And if you hover your mouse over these buttons are the tools. You can see their name. Here, you can see, and you will also see the
shortcut keys for them. After this toolbar. On the right side, you
have the Workspace mode. We also talked
earlier about this. You can click on any of these buttons to
change your workspace. You can go to Window Workspace and select anyone you like. Next you have these
different sized boxes. These different size
boxes are actually different panels
which are combined together to make the interface of Adobe After Effects for you. E.g. if you are not familiar
with video editing, let me tell you some video
editing things before. For video editing, you know, you have a video
file which should be displayed on your front. That is called as Canvas, or you can say
program or neater. So the next thing
that you want to have is some information
regarding that clip. You can get that info panel. Then you also need to have different videos and
start the project. You get those in
project panel and you have to see everything
second-by-second, but you are adding what
can you modify in that? So you see that on timeline. So these are just some basic video editing things
that I told you. And for the same function, we have these different
panels dogged and arranged inside Adobe
After Effects workspace. So again, Let's get back to point here you have
the project panel, which consist of
different elements, different videos,
different audio file that you import inside
Adobe After Effects. Then you have the
composition when it will be discussed in
the next lecture. On the right side, you have
different preview effects and preset panels, et cetera. You can always get them through windows and then enabled
or disabled anyone. And on the bottom you
have this timeline panel. So this was all regarding the interface of
Adobe After Effects. Let's just finish
this right now and move towards the next lectures
and learn video editing.
3. Creating a Composition and Composition Settings: Creating a composition. A composition inside Adobe
After Effects is like a blank video in which you can import or add different images, videos, or audio files. This composition is of
particular dimensions and particular frame rate inside which you can add
your own videos, audios, and images, et cetera. This composition is actually the video file that gets exported from Adobe
After Effects. So it's exactly same like we have sequence inside
Adobe Premier Pro. So when you have a project
inside Adobe After Effects, you can go to Composition and
click on New Composition. Or you can just go to this window and click on
New Composition button. When you click on it, you get some options here, which you can modify
according to Jordan in it and create a
new composition. So first things first, you have to name
the composition. As we know, we work
inside Adobe After Effects for usually
visual effects, etc. So there can be multiple compositions
inside the same composition because we actually go with one composition in that we
have some different clips. And out of those clips, those are acting as
different composition. And inside those
compositions we have a clip, we have some text file,
et cetera, et cetera. So this is how we work
inside Adobe After Effects. So these are actually
some complex things we will stay with
the basics for now. So we have to name
our composition. You can name it
anything you like. Maybe we can go with test. So then we have to
go for settings which are referred to as basic or advanced
and 3D renderer. First of all, we have to go
with the basic settings. Inside the basic settings, you can either go with
a preset here you have plenty of presets. Like you can go with HGTV,
You can give it a try. It's T4, K cinematic
film to K4 get sectors. You have all of
these options here. Or you can go with
the Custom Preset and go with the settings
of your choice. The next thing you have
here is width and height. And this is actually especially
for the Custom Preset. Now here actually you
don't need comes in e.g. you are creating a YouTube video and you want it
to be in ten ATP. You will go with 1920 by 1080. And it also shows you
your aspect ratio here, which is 16 ratio nine, and that is perfect for full HD. The next thing, if you
want to create an n study, you can modify it
to 1080 by 1920. And it will show
United Russia 16, which is again perfect
for that requirement. And the best thing is if
you lock this aspect ratio, you can modify one setting and the other will
automatically change. So this is the best thing when it comes to
creating composition. So I have this, like if I log
this aspect ratio of 169, I have this full HD and I can
increase it or decrease it. And I will have the
same aspect ratio in different formats
like 7201080, full HD to K4, K, etc. So this is how you
modify the composition, width and height according to the demand of the project
you're working on. Then you have this pixel
aspect ratio and you can use any of the presets, or you can just go with the
square pixels by default, then you have frame rate. Now frame rate is
actually very important, especially when it comes to
the visual effects, e.g. you are going to
create a clip that is going to be like
slow-mo or something. So you can go with the
higher frame rate. So you actually do
all of this editing. You get that VFX done
inside that claim. And then you import
that clip inside Premiere Pro where you are
actually editing the video. And you modify
that 60 frame rate and 230 and you will
get a smoother clip. This is the key to
learn frame rates. So here we have
different options like 2,429.9, 30.61, 20. Here is the thing. Higher the frame rate smoother will be your footage and
lower the frame rate. Your footage will be lagging
or maybe stuttering, etc. so 24 or 23.9 is going to be the cinematic standard
we see on cinema movies. The 29.9 and even 30, or the standards for your computer screens when it comes to your YouTube videos, et cetera, your tutorials
and things like that. And 59.9, 60 or one-twenty
for extra small clips. And I will suggest you to use these only when you
are going to do this no more thing because
these are extra smooth and sometimes these look
a bit unrealistic. So you can go with any
of these frame rates. Now, this actually depends on what you are
going to do, e.g. if you are gonna
do visual effects, you have to check
out your base clip. If that is in 24 frames per
second. You can go with 24. If that isn't 30, you can go with Turkey. But if you are going for motion graphics,
you can go with 30. So this is the thing
that your need is going to be entered
here in width, height, and even the frame rate. So I will go with 30 frame rate. And you can let this
to be dropped frames. And then here comes
the resolution. Resolution is actually
something that when you load your clips
inside the composition, those clubs get
pre-rendered on your dram. So if you have plenty of RAM, you can set this
resolution to maximum. And that will be more
time-consuming because all of the actions inside
those clips will be presented. E.g. you have basically that gets pre-rendered and
then you are good to go. But if you add even a single
line across all the frames, all of the frame will have
to get pre-rendered again. So it is better to shift this resolution to
quarter or maybe third, if you do not have a good
computer, you have one, you can even go with
full or if you do not want to do some
CPU intensive task, you can go with full. Otherwise, I will suggest
you go with caught are entered and there is no hard
and fast rule for this. You can always modify
these settings. You have loaded up the project. Are you when you have
loaded up the composition? Next thing you have is start
time code and duration. So these are almost the same
things in terms because duration is actually how long
you want your clip to be. Start time code is actually the frame from which you
want your sequence to start. So leave the start time code at zero-zero and then
select the duration. These first two digits
are going to be frames. Then these two digits
are the seconds. Then you have minutes. And this is for ours. So this 30 ratio 00
means this is for 30 s. And if I change this
to 000 and then 30, so it will be for 1
s, as you can see. So you have to change the duration according
to your demand. 30 s or 40 s is
going to be good. So after you have your
duration set up here, you have set the resolution, you have the frame rate, you
have width and height, etc. Then you have to
select the background color of your composition. This is very important
when you are actually going with
motion graphics, because you must have
a particular color in your background and
then you are adding lines and shapes
in front of that. Or this is also important. Then you are going with King and rotoscoping like
thing because you actually are going to export those clips later on to some different illustration
or different video file, etc. So choose the background color
according to your choice. By default it is black
and it works fine. So when you have all of
these basic settings, you can go with advanced
and 3D render settings. Now, at this moment, out of the 3D render settings, you are actually not
going to touch anything. Because in this particular
course we are not going to touch 3D inside After Effects much we will
talk about the 3D layers, et cetera, but
we're not going in detail for the 3D
inside After Effects. So you can leave these
settings to default. These work fine, and this is just a classic renderer option because you can go
with classic 3D, which will use your arm and
your hardware, et cetera. And in the Cinema 4D, it will use another
software for 3D things. And that software is
actually called Cinema 4D. And in the advanced settings, the only thing that you need to know about a shutter angle. So this is at 180
degree by default. And you can always
modify this and this is important when it comes
to the motion blurred thing. So this was all about the
composition settings. You just click, Okay, and your composition
is made here. And this was all about
making the composition. Another method of making
a composition is when you have imported something
inside your project window, you can just hold it by using your left mouse button and
drag it to this button. And it will automatically make a new composition with the same settings
of that sequence. So this is the button
for the new composition. You can always go to composition and create a new composition. And even when you
have a composition, you can right-click go to composition settings and
modify these settings. So this was all about creating a Composition and
Composition Settings.
4. Importing Files: Importing files. This is made up of two
words importing files. So let's just discuss both
of these words one by one. So the first thing we
have here is importing. Importing means
getting something in, from outside when
it is discouraged in terms of economics or
at international level, it means getting something
into your country. And when it is talked about in terms of an editing software, inputting means getting
something from outside. Maybe your drive, your
computer, internet, your heart desk, your SSD, anything like that into
your editing software. So when it comes into
your editing software, it is being processed
by your RAM, which is involved in maintaining or processing
your editing software. And you can do anything with that by using your
editing software. So that is why importing is
very important because it allows you to get a clip inside your editing software
and then work on it. The next thing is files. So the concept of files is very important when it
comes to a software, because not every software can
import every kind of file. E.g. an image editing software will only be working with
the JPEG, PNG, et cetera. A video editing software can get all kinds of images
like BMP, PNG, JPEG, or even the video
files like MP4 way, and even the audio
files like MP3s, etc. So when it comes to Adobe After Effects in the form
of radio format, it can import Altcoins of files. It can import AVI, it can import MP4, it can import other
formats that are related to the video
like MOV, etc. Even in terms of audio, it can import MP3, WAV, ETC, all of the formats. When it comes to images, it can again import all kinds of images like JPEG,
PNG, et cetera. When it comes to
the illustrations, it can even import Adobe AIF files directly
as a single layer, as a composition, et cetera, which makes it mind-boggling
because you just have an Illustrator
file right there. You put that inside your Adobe After Effects
and you can have all of the same layers as off your Adobe Illustrator
inside Adobe After Effects. And that is why this feature makes Adobe After
Effects great for 2D animations or
communistic animation because you have all of
the layers from here, adobe Illustrator and
Adobe After Effects. And then you can just play with different parameters of that
and animate your character, rig your character, etc. So now the question is
how to import your files? So here you can see this
is Adobe After Effects. And remember one thing, the files are actually imported
into your project window. So here is the project window. If you don't see this,
you can always go to Window and then turn on
the project from here. So there are three
methods to import. First method is the traditional
drag-and-drop method. You go to your file explorer, drag something into
the project window using your left mouse button, and you have that inside
your project window. The next method
is going to file. And then here you see input, and here you can import a
file or even multiple files, or import something from
your Adobe libraries. And even a Premier Pro project and even the other
files you have here. So you can do this or you can just double-click the
project window and it will open up Windows Explorer
pop up and you can select your files and get those
inside your project. So here I have a file. You see, I got this TXT file. Here, I got an
illustration file. So I have this
inside my project. The next question is then
to import your files. So the first thing is
you have to import your files first and
then make a composition. Or you can even make a
composition and then import your file just doesn't
make much difference. But if you want to
edit only one clip, like when you are using
Adobe After Effects, you are actually going for some advanced level things maybe like cracking or even the green
screen and Keying, etc. So it gets better to
import your project first. And then when you have your
files in the project window, you can make a
composition by using them and then I
get them directly. So it is recommended
to import files first and then create
a composition. So we have learned
why to import files. We have known how
to import files, we know when to import files. And the last thing is
importing Illustrator file. So when it comes to importing
Adobe Illustrator files, you can either import them as a composition or
as footage, e.g. here I have an
illustration file. It is entitled as
untitled one ai. And now I can either import it as a composition
or as a footage. Now there are two things. When I imported
as a composition, it gets into my project window as a composition like
you can see here. And I can change
the dimensions here to the layer size or
to the document size. With the document size, it will be according to this file. And with the layer size,
it will be according to the layer on which
it will be put on. And when I'm bought
it as a composition, this composition will have
all of the AI layers. And when I put it as a footage, I can either get it
merged like a single file or even import only one
out of all of the layers. So we will just import it
as a footage this time. And here it is. Lear too. Maybe. This is the layer two. Similarly, I have also imported it as the composition here, and this is as composition. When I open it up, it
has different layers. You can see 123, this
was the layer-2, as we got it here. And this was the layer one, this was the layer three. So this is how you import Adobe Illustrator
files and it is very important to know
how to import it, because this is going to
be the main thing when you are doing the 2D animations inside Adobe After Effects. So this was all
for this lecture.
5. Cutting and Moving Clips: Cutting and moving clips. So in this lecture, we will be talking
about how we can move different clips across timeline inside Adobe After Effects, and how we cut them, trim them, copy paste, duplicate them inside
Adobe After Effects. Now, this thing, this cutting and trimming and
moving clips thing, is actually the base inside
every video editing software. Because in every video
editing software, you actually have
to arrange all of your video files across
the timeline to get them in a manner or in a way so that you want them to look
like in the export, e.g. you have short, maybe
five or six clips. You want all of them to merge. So to merge them, you actually have to arrange all of them according
to your liking. You have to cut those parts
which you do not want. These cutting and trimming
basics are actually the most absolute basics for video editing inside every
video editing software. And the thing is that these
cutting and video editing things are actually almost same for every video
editing software. Because every video
editing software has maybe like the tools or a specific button or a shortcut key to do this cutting
and trimming thing. So we are inside
Adobe After Effects. Now as you can see, and I have a few clips inside my project window,
you can see that. So I will just drop all of
them and the composition, and let's make a
single composition. And here you can see I
have four clips arranged. First of all, I will
just mute all of them. So now I have muted all of them at them inside
the timeline. So this is the timeline. And you can see this first
clip named flash movement one is starting from here
and ending at this point. Then the second clip, starting from the similar
zero-zero seconds and extending towards maybe like 25 s. The third clip
is starting from 00 and then maybe like 26 s. And the last one
is the lengthiest. It's almost 1 min and 24 s. So I'll just turn the
resolution to quarter right now. And now we are going to be
doing some basic cutting, trimming, copy, paste, and duplicate so you can
learn the basics. So first things first, how to move the clips
inside the timeline. The onset is move to your layer. And then the timeline, hold your left mouse button and just drag it into a direction. E.g. this clip was first
starting from zero 0 s. And if I move it to 5 s, now it will begin
from fifth second. Similarly, if I drag
this to the left, it will be starting
from 00 second, but it is the sixth
second of the clip. So this is how you modify the movement of a clip
inside the timeline. It's similar for the
remaining layers. You can just modify
them or their position. You can see just by dragging them using the mouse
and they are arranged. See, this is the first one, this is the second one. This is the third one. And then we have the fourth one. So this is how you move the
clips inside your timeline. And these basics are actually same inside every video
editing software. You can move the clips inside your timeline with this method by holding the
left mouse button. Similarly in Premier Pro, similarly in VSD C, Similarly in any other fancy
video editing software, the next thing that is going
to be cutting and trimming, copy, paste, and duplicate. So let's see. I'll just make a new
composition here. And here you can see I
have a new composition. And this was my
previous composition. Let's say I have to move any of my clip from here to
the new composition. So what can I do? I can either go to the project window and
just drop the clip. But the thing is if I
drop the clip from there, that clip will be
coming here with the default settings and not with the editing
I have done here. So to bring it, I can just left-click and select the layer and press control
C on my keyboard to copy. I'll just go back to the
composition press control V, and it gets pasted here. See, I have my clip
here right now. And another thing
that you must have noticed that in
this composition, this clip is showing, but in this new composition
the clip is not available. And the reason is, in the first composition which
is named flash movement, the clip starts from 31st
or thirty-seconds second. But in the new composition, we just pasted it. The limit is 20 s. And this is the reason
that clip is not showing the similar thing
I talked about earlier. If I just drop that clip
from project window, we get it with the
default settings. Now, what if I modify the
position of this clip? Does this have any effect
on the new composition? Absolutely not. But if I copy this now, and again pasted, it gets pasted here with
the new settings. So this is how you copy
and paste your clips from one composition to another or even inside the
same composition. Also, you can do that thing by using Control X on your
keyboard and then Control V. And with that, the
cut method, the clip, or any graphic symbol
or any texts will get deleted from the
first place and will be available only
at the second one. Now, what if you want
to duplicate something? Obviously, when you are doing
the motion graphics thing, there are many things that
you want to duplicate. There will be many assets, there will be images, there will be S Effects. You will want to duplicate that. Just don't go again and again
to the project window and drag them so forth that
just select the S, just select the clip, just select the
layer you want to duplicate and press Control D on your keyboard and it gets duplicated with
the previous settings. And this is the
method of duplicating anything inside
Adobe After Effects. Now, let's talk about trimming. Trimming is actually
modifying the clips land, and you can do that
very easily by just moving towards
one end of the clip. And you see the cursor changes. See, when the Kurds are changes. You just hold your left
mouse button and drag it. And if I just turn off
all the layers you see after this and
the lighter area, the clip is no longer
available in the money. But we have this opacity, or you can say some
transparent area to mark the length of this clip because we can always extend it to the end and we will
get our clip back. So this is how your dream, anything inside
Adobe After Effects, another method or another thing that needs to be
discussed is splitting. Splitting actually means
dividing the clip into two. And this is also one of the most useful thing when
it comes to video editing. In the case of
Adobe Premiere Pro, where you have got
a cut tool which is used to do the splitting. And in case of Adobe
After Effects, we have got a magical
shortcut key, and that is control shift
D. And when you do this, your clip gets splitted
into two parts. And then you can either
delete the one or you can either trim the one and just get to the point or get
to the face or get to the monitor and see how you like the
clips to be arranged. So in this lecture, we have talked about how to move your clips inside Adobe
After Effects. Number one. Number two, we talked
about how to copy, paste, and cut and
even duplicate. Not just your clips, but your text file motion
graphics template or anything like that inside
Adobe After Effects. And the last thing we learned
is cutting your clip, trimming your clip, and
even splitting your clip. So let's just remind everything. Number one, how to move your clip inside
Adobe After Effects. For that, you have to use your left mouse button and drag the clip across
your timeline. Remember to how to
copy your claim. Press control C
on your keyboard. Number three, how
to paste your clip? Go to another position
or the same timeline, just press control
V on your keyboard, your eclipse get duplicated. Number four. How
to cut your clip. You just use Control X and then Control V to paste
how to duplicate. Press Control D
on your keyboard. How to trim your clip, move to its terminal. And then when the
cursor changes, hold the left mouse
button and drag it, then the last thing, how to split your claim? Just press Control, Shift
D on your keyboard, your clips get splitted. So this was all
for the basics of video editing in which you
learned how to cut your claim, duplicate sequence,
copy paste, etc. And these absolute basics are actually going to help you a lot when you're doing
the basic video editing. So this was all
for this lecture.
6. Concept of Layers: Concept of players. So in this lecture, we will be talking about what our layers inside
Adobe After Effects. And what do they do
Are you can see how layers can be helpful for us when it comes to video editing. So first things first, here you can see we are
inside Adobe After Effects. And we have already
talked about that. This part is known as timeline. And this part is the one that
tells us what things are, what clips, or
what elements are, assets are present
inside the composition. And we can see all of these
things inside this monitor. We all know this. We have
cleared this part already. So let's talk about the
concept of layering. So why do we need
layering and how is leading helpful for
us as video editors? So first things first, you must need to know
that as video editors, you are not just working on
a single thing like e.g. if you are seeing this project
right now on the monitor, this comprises of these layers, like these are a lot of players. And as a video editor, especially when
you're working inside Adobe After Effects
for postproduction, for visual effects
and motion graphics. You can not do
everything on one layer. Even if you look
at this project, here is one layer that is adding a spotlight as 3D
element on this subject. There is one layer of
this rotoscoping subject. There is one layer on which a bit of color grading is done. There is one layer of this
element, one layer of this, another thunder
element, two separate layers for both of the eyes
and one background layer. So all of these layers
are merged together. Our scene at the same instance are seen in one single moment. And then we get this nice video. And this is what
video editor do. They take different elements, they take different assets
and then they merge them inside one layer. Or you can save one clip and you see all of them at
the one woman, e.g. you see, this is just one video. So this is the thing that
your camera captures, that your mobile phone
captures and you can see that. So what is the need of
video editing then? Because you have to add
different elements, e.g. let's forget the visual
effects at the moment. Let's talk about motion
graphics for the moment. So you take the text tool, you modify the text and
you have got their texts. So what now? You actually have
to add that text as motion graphic element on
front of some clay, e.g. you add that in front of
this claim by saying torr or maybe visual effects or maybe thunder eyes,
something like that. So this is the reason
you actually need that layers so that you can see all of the different
elements at the moment. This is the need of lading. So how does layering works? You can see inside this composition panel there are different elements tagged. So each element is
called a layer. And these layers can be
seen in your timeline. These work from bottom to top. The top most layer is the one that you will see firsthand. The bottom most layer is the one that you will see in the last. So again, for this example, let's just go to
this precomposition and add all of these
on one another. You see we are seeing
four clips at one moment. But all of the clips are
not visible right now just because we have a top clip which is occupying
all of the space. So if I just modified scale, maybe to this level, and then the scale of it to
this level and then this. So now you can actually
see the concept of learning from top to bottom. We are seeing all of the clips. For instance, if I turn
off the bottom-most, the bottom-most layer goes away. If I turn off this third
one that goes away, if I turn off the second
one that goes away, you might not be seeing
the second one right now. Here it is. Then if I turn off the top when you're
seeing the second one. So this is how the
layering actually works. We stack them on one another. The top one appears the first, the last one appears at the end. And this can actually help, especially when you are doing the motion graphics things, e.g. you have created a
mask and you want your text to appear
from underneath that, you will actually move that text element
below that mask, e.g. just to show how
the layering works, again, I will just go here, go to the Composition Settings, and turn the background
to something like this. And now I will just
use the text tool and type something,
maybe 123456. So I have this element
inside my layer. You can see this is
the layer number one. And then I will just draw a
shape of same dimensions. I just got a mask. Here it is. This is the shape. May be of the same color
as the background. It's almost same, I would say. So here you can see this
is a shape here right now. And we have the texts and
we have a background color. So let's say we want
this text to appear. And let's just also add a
clip on the background. So here you can see now
at the moment we have three elements inside
our composition. We have a text element, we have a shape, and
we have a video file. Let's say a video file was not enough for the complete monitor. So we actually want to
fill the background. So for that we can use
this shape element. I will just select it. I will increase its size all
the way and move it here. And then I will change
its color to maybe black to add maybe
the black element. But you see our video file disappeared and that is because our shape
layer was on above. So I will just move it below. My video file will appear and
it will also cover the area that was not filled
by the video file. So this actually helps. This concept of
layering actually helps when you need to do something
in the post-production. Again, I have this text
element, so I have a tear. Now let's say I want it to
appear it from nowhere. And I just animated it
from left to right, maybe with another color. Maybe like something like. So let's say I animated it from left to right to appear here. I'll just animate it quickly. Just for the example here. I have animated
this text element. But as it progresses you see my text element
appears from outside. But the thing is
it is not looking good just because this ADR, this black area actually is
not covering up my text. I just want to make
it appear like it appears out of nowhere
into the club. So for that, what I can do, I can actually make shape. And when I have the shape, I just make sure that this
shape layer is above the text. I can even move it
below and you see the text appears,
I make it above. The text disappears and
normal animation looks like it appears out of
nowhere into the clip. So this is how you actually use the concept of
layering to stack elements on each other to see multiple elements inside
the scene at once. Like here, you see different
elements right now in the scene to create different
fascinating visual effects, to create motion graphics
template, et cetera. So this is the
concept of layering.
7. Position, Scale, Rotation: Position, scale, and rotation. So these are the three basics of a clip when you load them
inside a composition, whether it is Adobe
After Effects, Adobe Premier Pro or any
other fancy editing software. Because these three
parameters are the ones that are
very essential in terms of how your clip or how any of your
essays may be shaped, text or image at
sector looks like inside the clip or
inside the composition, or inside the final export
you are going to make. So position, scale and
rotation are like the TPR, temperature, pulse, and
respiration for human body. This tells us about
the importance of position, scale and rotation. Now, inside Premiere Pro, you can get all of
these parameters inside the Effect
Controls panel, or you can draw up
a transform effect and modify everything. But inside Adobe After Effects, you actually have to use
your keyboard to press a key to get any of these parameters and
then modify them. For position. We have the button, P for
rotation, we have the button, and for scale, we
have the button S. For the practical
demonstration. Here you can see we are
inside Adobe After Effects. And here I have already
imported a few clips. So we will just
make composition. So here it is. I will
just turn off its audio. And then I will just select the clip by using
left mouse button. And when my clip is selected, if I press P, you will
see here comes position. If I press S, Here Comes scale. If I press our hair
comes rotation. So this is how you
drag up these values. Now how to modify these values and how to get the
best out of these. So first things first, if you see in this more neater, you will see that here are a few dots aligned
with the clip. These actually tell
you about the scale. You can modify the
scale just by holding left mouse button and
then modifying this. See the scale value changes. If you do not see it right here, I would just turn on
scale here and you will see that the scale
value changes. So this is another method. You can modify scale. You can just press
S on your keyboard, bring up the scale and
increase or decrease. Now here I'd actually do
values for the scale. And these values are linked until you turn off
this link button. And then if you modify, you can modify the y dimension and x dimension individually. So this is the y-dimension and this is x
dimension for scale. And if you link both
of these values, you can modify both at once. So this is how you
modify your scale. The next thing is position. So the presence of a clip inside the composition or inside the final export is going
to be called as position. As you can see, this triangle. As you can see this
rectangle or square, or you can say this line box is actually marking the
position of this clip. You can click P on your keyboard and you
will get the position. If you modify it, you will see that the
position changes. Now, one thing is, which of these dimensions is actually getting the
value for this parameter? So this anchor point
is the thing that is providing the value for
disposition parameters. So if you move this
anchor point to here, this will be the value. If you move this anchor
point to the hair, this will be the
value you can modify. Again, position like this. This is for x dimension and
this is for y-dimension. You can also call this
explained and y plane. Another thing here is that you can even also modified
this anchor point. If you double-click
your video layer, you will have this anchor point. And when you will drag your
cursor to the same point, the cursor will change. You can check this right now. And when the kids are changes, hold your left mouse button
and modify the anchor point. Now, note this,
that at the moment, this is the position value that was what the anchor
point in the middle. And if I go back
to my composition, it is at the same point, the same position value, but the clip has
already changed. If I press Undo, see, this is like this. But if I again go into
the layer and modify the anchor point and go
back, the clip changes. So this actually clears that this anchor point is
the thing that actually tells you or gives
you the value of x and y coordinates
for the position. And you can modify your clips
according to your demand by modifying the anchor
points if you don't want them to be
inside the middle. Now, why am I telling you these
tricks inside the basics? Because when you explored
different kinds of assets, e.g. I. Have an asset here, so I've just loaded up. And if you move
forward and timelines, so you can see this
is a term dataset. So inside there's thunder acid. You can see this is the
anchor point in the middle, but this was the starting point or this was the starting points. So I can just modify the starting point
and then go back to my composition and then modify its position to
the point I want, and then I will move forward. You can see that I have it mobbed already or
you can say I would dogged already at a particular
point and I do not need to worry about moving this clip into the center or
something like that. So these basics actually help you when you go
forward in the levels, but you move up to intermediate
and advanced levels. So let's move towards the final thing we're going to talk about in this lecture. And that is going
to be rotation. So rotation is like moving
inside the 2D plane, but on a different axis. So e.g. when you see it is
inside 2D plane, we have this x
value and y value, but we're not going to go
with any of these older. We will be rotating it something like maybe
you call on the z-axis, but we still do not
go into the z-axis. So this is a bit of
complex mathematics thing. So for the moment
you can see that imagine this is a circle. I will also draw a
circle right now. So imagine this
is a circle here. And this circle is
divided into 360 boxes. Each box is a degree and a
total will be 360 degree. And then if you
modify your clip, one degree, it will be
one degree rotation. If you modify it 90 degree, it will be flipped. If you modify it 180 degree, it will be flipped overall, like you can say
flip horizontally. 90 degree will be
flipped vertically. When a two-degree will
be flip horizontally, and 360 degree will be
a complete rotation. So to check this, you can just go to your clip. I will just hide both of
these clip right now. In the clip, you can press R on your keyboard to get
the rotation value. So the first thing is for
the complete revolution, and the second clip
is for the angles. So the thing I
explained earlier, if I press 90 degree, it is flipped horizontally. If I select 180 degree, it is flipped vertically. And if I make it 360, it comes back to the
original position and we have got one
complete rotation. And another thing that
you would have noticed is that when I change
the rotation value, this clip is actually rotating with the help
of the anchor point. By default, this anchor point is actually inside the middle. So your clips will
move like this. But then obviously you are doing the motion graphics or
maybe some text animations. You will modify
these anchor points to a particular point, to dog this at a particular
stage and then rotate. Likewise. So these are a few basics and
intermediate things about the absolute basics of a clip inside
Adobe After Effects, we talked about position
scale and rotation. Again, an overview
for the position. As for the scale or
for the rotation. Rotation is to modify
it along a circle. Scale is to increase its size, maybe in any dimension, or even link it to
get it maximized. And position is to
change its occurrence inside the composition
or the final export. So this was all about position, scale and rotation inside
Adobe After Effects.
8. Exporting Video: So exporting video is going to be one of the most
important tasks, are important thing when it comes to video editing
and post-production. And this is because not everyone
has a good computer and not everyone has a computer that can run a video
editing software. Like we cannot just get a USB or an SSD or
a hard disk drive and put all of the
project files as certs and the projects with
their names and listed, everything like that and
move that to the client. That here is your project
and you just turn it on, loaded up in your
After Effects ram, preview it and just preview
it and go through it. No, we cannot do that. And actually that is not even the purpose
of video editing. The main purpose of video
editing is to get a video file, final video file that
has gone through the stages of editing,
of postproduction, etc. So exporting video is one of the most important task in this regard because
we actually get the final preview out of the software as a
video file that can be transmitted to anywhere and that can be seen on
any type of device. You can see that video
on mobile phone, Android, iPhone, you can
see that on your Mac, you can see that
on your computer, desktop, laptop, everything, just because everything comes
up with a video player. So the next thing about
exporting video is getting to know about where
you want to use that video. In the exported video, there are different parameters
that need to be discussed. Number one is the
dimensions of the export. And these are the same
as the one we talked about in the beginning when we talked about
creating a composition. So the export frame
rate and export dimensions are going to be the same as the composition
we created. And this is because we actually have everything in
our mind already. We know that we're going to upload this video
on this platform, or we're going to provide
the client with this format. We are going to provide the
client with ten ATP is 722, gave it for k with six GAVI, they'd care
everything like that. So we already know that
if we make a composition using those settings and then we export in the same settings. So let's begin with a
little demonstration of how we export the video
inside Adobe After Effects. So here you can see this
is a project I made recently inside
Adobe After Effects. I think it looks cool. So when you have
your project here, you just have to go to File. And then here you can see Export now had
actually four options. You see Maxon Cinema
4D exploited. This is used if
you want to export your Adobe After Effects
project into Cinema 4D. And then you can render
with the help of Cinema 4D. The next option you have here is explore Adobe
Premier Pro project. This is the option that you
use when you want to export your After Effects project into Premier Pro and then export
it with the help of that. And you might be thinking why we use these options and why do not we use the
built-in render for Adobe After Effects. So the basic answer to this is, if you have different 3D
elements in your scene, those are going to
be rendered good with the help of
Cinema 4D renderer. If you have the basic texts, the basic video editing, or you want to do a little bit editing inside Premiere
Pro so you can complete your After Effects exported
as Premier Pro project opened up in Premier Pro and
then explored using debt. This is also done because
Premier Pro comes with Quick Time export or format that can
export video and mp4, which takes lesser
space as compared to the one that the built-in Adobe After Effects render has, which is AVI or MOV, et cetera. So the next thing is
Add to Render Queue. This option is used to export using the built-in renderer
of Adobe After Effects. So if you click on it, you see a new panel opens. So this is the interior panel. And here you can see
this tells you about the composition name which
you are rendering obviously. Then you have a few options, like started this time render rendered this time, the comment. It tells you that
whether it is finished, whether it has any edit, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Here you have three
basic options, which say Render Settings, output module, and output to. This, output to button is
used to locate the area inside your computer
or the folder inside your computer where you actually want to
export your file, you just click your
left mouse button and a Window Explorer
pop-ups ratio. You will select the folder
where you want to export. You will name the
file, press Enter, and that will be
synchronized here. The two options that need
to be discussed here is the output module and
the render settings. So when you click
on Render Settings. It gives you this option that whether you want
your quality to be best draft wireframe
or what is going to be the resolution and what are going to be the
time sampling, et cetera. So the best thing is, are working on a project, having video, you'll
go with the best, the wireframe and draft, etc, use when usually you are
going with the 3D stuff, wireframe is
actually for the 3D. So you can just leave this
to be the default settings. The next thing is
the output module. When you go to the
output module, you see here some main options
and the color management. In the color management, you can change the BPC values. And these will be discussed in the later section where
we will be talking about the glue effects
on the seabed plugin. In the main options, you have the format, which I talked about earlier, the AVI format, and the other
formats that are available. Now, AVA format here and the
QuickTime format here are the only formats that are
for a good video file. Because all of the other
either image sequences or the audio formats. So you can either go
with AVI and spend GBs of your drive on only
a few seconds video, or go with the QuickTime to get MOV format and get your export. All you can a bit smart and go with any
other interruption. So for the moment, you can select QuickTime or AVI. When you have selected that, you have to select the channel
you want RGB or alpha. And these options are pretty
much it for the basics. You can just go with
the default setting, nothing to change about. You just have to know about which format
you're going with. And then you can select
your audio settings. How much are your kids
and bits you want? And these actually must be the same as your
composition settings, so the sound does not change
much from the preview. And when you have done
everything, you can click okay. And after dad select the composition and go here
and then you will click on. And then here is the button. It's not available
because I have not selected the output format. So let's just select it. And now I have selected it. You can just click on Render and it will begin to rendering. You can pause that,
you can stop that. And this is showing
that it is rendering. The next thing we
will be talking about is the last option here. Add to Adobe Media
Encoder Queue. Adobe Media Encoder queue is another software
by Adobe that is actually used to exploit different kinds of projects
from After Effects, premium private sector sector. You can export your
project into that. And that is the sole exporters. You can export from
that in any format. So if you click on this option, you must need to have Adobe
Media Encoder installed. You just click it,
it begins to run and it will take some time. And your project will be
automatically exported. Here. And here you can see
this is the queue for that and this
is the composition. And this is actually my
previous composition. The new one will be
loaded in a minute. And here you can see, I can just delete it from
here and Jess. So here you can see we have
the H.264 format here. This H.264 format
is the one that we know is four MP4 files. Those MP4 files or less space
consuming and good-looking. So here are some different
formats of the left side, you can see the different
presets. We have. The image sequence,
the Blu-ray DVD, HDTV for the cameras, etc. for the broadcast, we have
GoPro, H264, SVC, etcetera. So these are all different
formats that you use for different platforms,
for different devices. And then you can just
select a preset here, which can be high-quality, which can be lesser quality,
may be medium-high. You see high betrayed,
medium bitrate, high-quality attain ATP
for k, 720 p, etcetera. And then you just select the
output file and click on this button to start rendering. So this is the simple, but this is so, so important that if you mess
up your export settings, even with something slide, that is going to cost you many minutes of
the render again, because you will have to
export the file again, you will have to render it again and go through all
of that stuff again. So keep in mind, when you make a composition or when
you go for export, you must need to know for what platform
you are exporting, for what type of trend
you are going to export. If you are going for
the one having Android, you are going to go with
QuickTime or you are going to go with H264 MP4 MOV format. And that will be good. If you are going for someone who wants it inside
the computer, you can go with any format,
H.264, Blu-ray, etc. If the exposure is going to be someone like the
movie distributor, you will go with the
Blu-ray or desk, etc. For Apple, we have another
format for YouTube. We have different
presets for an ATP, atp to k for k. So these are
all the basics for export. We have learned four
different ways to export the files
inside Adobe After Effects button of the
witches by using Cinema 4D one is by exporting it
as premium per project. When is the base encoder? The Adobe After Effects or the base surrender of
Adobe After Effects. And the fourth one is by using
Adobe Media Encoder Queue. So this was pretty
much it related to After Effects export. And one more thing I
would like to tell you is when you are exporting
using Adobe After Effects, the main render header
encoder, you said. You go here and you
click on this tree size buttons so you can always
change its dimensions. You can resize it to
something higher, or you can resize it
to something lower, or you can even crop it. So this was also one thing
that you must need to know because you might be
going to export it into 720. When you have made the
video in tiny ATP, or you might be exporting it in ATP when I made the
video and sound 20 b. So this was something tricky or something like
a tip for you guys. So this was all for this
lecture in which we talked about all of the different
export settings and all of the different
export my ears or export methods for a project
of Adobe After Effects.
9. Class Project: As we discussed earlier
in the introduction, that this class will teach you to get your videos out
of your smartphone, put them inside
Adobe After Effects, arrange them, do some
cutting, trimming, add maybe some position
scale rotation animations, and then export them
as a video file. So you have learned all
of these things already. Now it is time to
tell me that whether this mode of teaching was
convenient for you or not. So leaving honest
reviews so I can get an idea that this class
was up to the mark or not. Also, you can open up
discussion anytime if you have any questions
regarding this section or even the upcoming sections, I will always be available
to help you guys. The last thing that
I will be asking for is a class project. Just take out your mobile
phone, do some recordings, maybe just record yourself doing the review editor bit and then upload that
as class projects. So I can get to know
that you have opened up After Effects and you have
good something inside. And that will be really a proud moment for
me and you as well. But that said, let's
just say goodbye to each other and meet
in the next class. Have a good day.
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