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After Effects getting started tutorials

After Effects CS6: what's new and changed Learn After Effects CS5 and CS5.5
After Effects CS6 video tutorials Planning and setup
After Effects CS6: New Features Workshop Setup and installation
After Effects user-to-user forum Workflows
Getting started with After Effects (CS4, CS5, & CS5.5)

Workspace and workflow

Setup and installation Networks and removable media with Digital Video
Workflows General user interface items
Planning and setup Keyboard shortcuts reference
Working with After Effects and other applications Modify keyboard shortcuts
Dynamic Link and After Effects Preferences
Workspaces, panels, and viewers

Projects and compositions

Projects Precomposing, nesting, and pre-rendering
Timecode and time display units Error: "Crash occurred while invoking plug-in Shadow/Highlight"
Composition basics

Importing footage

Importing and interpreting video and audio Preparing and importing 3D image files
Working with footage items Preparing and importing still images
Importing from After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro Networks and removable media with Digital Video
Importing and interpreting footage items

Layers and properties

Creating layers Blending modes and layer styles
Selecting and arranging layers 3D layers
Managing layers Cameras, lights, and points of interest
Layer properties

Views and previews

Previewing Modifying and using views

Animation and Keyframes

Animation basics Speed
Setting, selecting, and deleting keyframes Tracking and stabilizing motion
Editing, moving, and copying keyframes Tracking 3D Camera Movement (CS6)
Assorted animation tools Animating with Puppet tools
Keyframe interpolation Time-stretching and time-remapping

Color

Color basics Color management

Drawing, painting, and paths

Paint tools: Brush, Clone Stamp, and Eraser Managing and animating shape paths and masks
Overview of shape layers, paths, and vector graphics Shape attributes, paint operations, and path operations for shape layers
Creating shapes and masks

Text

Creating and editing text layers Animating text
Formatting characters and the Character panel Extruding text and shape layers (CS6)
Formatting paragraphs and the Paragraph panel Examples and resources for text animation

Transparency and compositing

Compositing and transparency overview and resources Keying
Alpha channels, masks, and mattes Roto Brush and Refine Matte

Effects and animation presets

Effects and animation presets overview Keying effects
Effect list Matte effects
3D Channel effects Noise & Grain effects
Audio effects Obsolete effects
Blur & Sharpen effects Perspective effects
Channel effects Simulation effects
Error: "Crash occurred while invoking plug-in Shadow/Highlight" Stylize effects
The rolling shutter repair effect (CS6) Text effects
Color Correction effects Time effects
Distort effects Transition effects
Generate effects Utility effects

Markers

Layer markers and composition markers XMP metadata

Memory, storage, performance

Memory and storage (CS5.5, and earlier) Networks and removable media with Digital Video
Improve performance Memory and storage (CS6)
GPU (CUDA, OpenGL) features in After Effects CS6

Expressions and automation

Plug-ins Expression basics
Scripts Expression language reference
Automation Expression examples

Rendering and Exporting

Basics of rendering and exporting Converting movies
Rendering and exporting for Flash Professional and Flash Player Export an After Effects project as an Adobe Premiere Pro project
Rendering and exporting still images and still-image sequences Codecs missing | Adobe Media Encoder | Premiere Pro installed from Creative Cloud
Automated rendering and network rendering


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