After Effects Introduction - Simple Animation
10 Must-Know Keyboard Shortcuts for After Effects
LEARNING GOALS
Students will be able to:
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Criteria:
Step 1
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STUDENT TASK
- Open AE
- Watch the tutorial to become familiar with the workspace.
- Find a video and "logo" from a Royalty free site. Or use personal videos or work that could be a logo. Import into AE
- Decide on Text to write/add.
- Re-watch video if needed to guide you through adding all the media, effects, etc.
- Watch the 2nd video and try applying at least one effect learned.
- see above for step 2: Pre-compose your logo/ Text
- Render both compositions. Add to google drive and preview.
- Take a screen shot of your AE layers. Press "U" when on a layer to show only the Keyframes used/added. Add them to your portfolio.
- Share/turn in your videos: Either:
- Add a SHARE link from google drive (get the share link for people to view) to your portfolio
- Or upload to a YouTube account, then add embed code to your website (you will see the video like on our class website).
Watch this video for more effects to add to your video.
This is a simple Animation made in After Effects, using Royalty free images from:
www. pixababy.com
www. Pexels.com
There is some sort of glitch that I need to fix!
www. pixababy.com
www. Pexels.com
There is some sort of glitch that I need to fix!
Rendering
Make your video to be a usable shareable format
https://youtu.be/kYpUP7GAQ74
To render
Make your video to be a usable shareable format
https://youtu.be/kYpUP7GAQ74
To render
- Go to (both will take you the same place)
- Composition Menu: Add to Render Queue
- File Menu:File Export: Add to Render Queue
- Lower right click on blue writing Best Settings
- Quality set to best
- resolution set to full
- Options here to select Frame rate or you can select your start and end time to render
- Lower right click on blue writing Lossless
- Format select QuickTime or other Format that works best for you
- Select Format Options: Select Apple ProRes 422 HQ , click OK
- Click OK to set format options
- Lower right click on blue writing Output To
- Select your save location for the project
- Turn on your CAPS LOCK KEY - to increase render speed