Adobe After Effects Crash Course For Creatives

Create Stunning Social Media Video and Motion Graphics with ZERO Experience: Learn After Effects, Theory, Projects

What you’ll learn
Learn the Adobe After Effects software from scratch
You will have a solid understanding of Motion video theory
Learn how to create compelling social media ads
Understanding technical terms like resolution, frame rate and more
Create real world motion projects like a logo animation, a cinematic logo intro, a motion typography project, a video ad project and more!
Learn to work with motion typography
Learn After Effects Essentials like Keyframes, Compositions, Easy Ease, Null Objects, Masks, Wiggle, Camera, Effects and More!
Social Media Video Creation
Scroll Stopping Video Creation
Requirements
Access to After Effects will be required to fully enjoy this course – We will be using the Adobe Creative Cloud version but older versions may still take this class with limitations to newer tools
Description
“Video becomes more popular each day in the social media space. Businesses use videos to get more engagement and eyes on their services and products.”This course is designed to give you the path of least resistance to making scroll stopping, eye catching videos in after effects, FAST.Join both Ryan Collins (a social media video expert with hundreds of video ads under his belt) and I, Lindsay Marsh, who has the produced hundreds of hours of video content as we study what makes compelling motion video clips and graphics, learn the basics of Adobe After Effects and learn how to complete stunning motion video projects.I will walk you through motion theory including frame rates, sizes and resolutions, and provide helpful downloadable resources along the wayRyan Collins will provide you the precise tools and knowledge you need to skip all the headaches and get straight to making high quality videos, in his entertaining yet succinct and calculated manner. He will also walk you through several amazing projects such as Instagram Stories, Typography, video ad creation and tons more! And yes – you can learn After Effects and start creating compelling motion videos in no time.All you need is After Effects, and a will to succeed.

Overview

Section 1: Motion Video Theory

Lecture 1 Course Preview

Lecture 2 Course Guide and Resources

Lecture 3 Introduction to Motion Video

Lecture 4 Video Size and Resolution

Lecture 5 Frame Rate

Lecture 6 Storyboarding

Section 2: What makes a SUCCESSFUL Social Media Ad? (And meet Ryan.)

Lecture 7 THREE Key Components to making a Successful Social Media Ad

Section 3: Fundamentals #1 (Basic Training)

Lecture 8 The Timeline

Lecture 9 Composition Basics

Lecture 10 Keyframes

Lecture 11 Easy Ease and The Speed Graph

Section 4: Fundamentals #2 (Creative Applications)

Lecture 12 Text Basics

Lecture 13 Solids, Gradients and Blending Modes.

Lecture 14 Shape and Lower Third Basic Animation

Section 5: Updated! Animation Principals

Lecture 15 New Lesson! Animation Speed Principals!

Section 6: Project #1(Beginner) – Create an Instagram Story with ZERO Experience

Lecture 16 1 – Quick Introduction

Lecture 17 2 – Set up our project file

Lecture 18 3 – Add our background and animate it

Lecture 19 4 – Throw in some text

Lecture 20 5 – Animate the text in and out

Lecture 21 6 – Music, Render and Congratulations!

Section 7: Fundamentals #3 (Advanced)

Lecture 22 Compositions in Greater Detail

Lecture 23 Track Mattes

Lecture 24 Masks

Lecture 25 Camera Basics

Lecture 26 The “Null Object”

Lecture 27 Null Object *UPDATED!

Lecture 28 Expressions (Wiggle and Time)

Lecture 29 A few of my favourite Effects

Lecture 30 Make a CRAZY glitch effect

Section 8: Project #2 (Intermediate) – Create “Viral Style” Text Boxes and Learn Animation

Lecture 31 Create a Text Box and Align

Lecture 32 The Anchor Point & Scaling

Lecture 33 Animating The Text Box

Lecture 34 Fit the Text in the Box

Lecture 35 The Grand Reveal

Lecture 36 Render and Congratulations!

Section 9: Project #3 (Intermediate) Rhythmic Typography Video

Lecture 37 Rhythmic Typography Video Project

Section 10: Project#4 (Advanced) Screen Capture and Web Presentation Project

Lecture 38 Screen Capture Software

Lecture 39 Replace a Phone or Laptop Screen

Lecture 40 Create a “3D” Display

Lecture 41 PROJECT – Create your own Web Browser

Section 11: Project #5 (Advanced) Create a Social Media Animated Poster

Lecture 42 Social Media Project Introduction

Lecture 43 The Master Plan

Lecture 44 Time to Design

Lecture 45 Trim Paths

Lecture 46 Animate Your Image

Lecture 47 Let’s Talk About Text, Baby!

Lecture 48 Shake That Button

Lecture 49 Texture, Render, Congratulations!

Section 12: Project #6 Social Media Video Ad Creation

Lecture 50 Social Media Video Ad

Section 13: Audio for Social Media *New!

Lecture 51 Introduction

Lecture 52 Sound in Social Media – Where and Why?

Lecture 53 Different Types of Audio in Video

Lecture 54 Where to find GREAT Royalty Free Audio & Video

Lecture 55 PROJECT TIME – Cinematic Video

Lecture 56 My Recording Gear

Lecture 57 The Layout

Lecture 58 NEW! Where to Save Your Disk Cache?

Section 14: EXTRA Content

Lecture 59 Behind-the-scenes, Shoot Preview and Live Edit / Time lapse

Any creative (Graphic Designer, Web Designer, aspiring motion video editors) who wants to learn the basics of After Effects so they can add motion video editing and animation to their skillsets,Anyone interested in learning how to create compelling social media or motion video ads, logo animations and other short form motion video content,Beginner to Intermediate After Effects users looking to expand their knowledge of after effects and learn how to use it in new ways.