After Effects Hidden Gems

5h 12mIntermediate2016-06-07

Authors

Chris Meyer

Principle at Crish Design

Trish Meyer

Principle at Crish Design, an award-winning graphic design studio

Course details

Adobe After Effects has been developed continuously for over 20 years now, meaning there are a lot of potentially useful tricks, shortcuts, and features hiding in there that you might not be aware of. Chris and Trish Meyer have used After Effects since version 1.0, making them the perfect duo to unearth these gems, polish them off, and share them with you. But this isn't some trivia contest; these are features you can put to work to save you time and learn more about what this deep motion graphics and visual effects program can do. Features that have been lurking for years will be intermixed with new ones introduced in the latest releases.

Learning objectives
Setting the vertex point
Creating swarms of object
Replacing layers without losing effects and animation
Simplifying projects
Hiding layers
And more…

Skills covered

Serial (Weekly)Motion GraphicsAfter EffectsRenderingMotion Graphics and VFXVisualization and Real-TimeAdobeAECProduct and ManufacturingAnimation and Illustration

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome

Gems from June 2016

02 - Preserve transparency

Gems from May 2016

03 - Illustrator artboards
04 - Understanding image resampling
05 - Retiming Sequences
06 - Collapsed adjustment layers

Gems from April 2016

07 - Browsing presets in Bridge
08 - Adjustment layers - The basics
09 - Adjustment layers - Beyond the basics
10 - Converting footage to comps

Gems from March 2016

11 - Divide mode
12 - Difference mode
13 - Adding comments to projects
14 - Edit this look at that
15 - Tricks with keyframes

Gems from February 2016

16 - Smoother
17 - Linear expression
18 - Expression controls
19 - 3D camera shake

Gems from January 2016

20 - Puppet overlaps
21 - Puppets and multiple shapes
22 - Slip editing
23 - Adobe Typekit

Gems from December 2015

24 - Hold keyframes
25 - Color palettes
26 - Comp proxies
27 - Rendering at a higher bit depth

Gems from November 2015

28 - Automatic fades
29 - Wiggle behaviors
30 - Layer styles
31 - Roving keyframes

Gems from October 2015

32 - Pixel Motion Blur
33 - Fading multiple layers
34 - Transforming the render order
35 - Basic behaviors

Gems from September 2015

36 - Wiggle Paths
37 - Preserve Frame Rate
38 - Stereo Mixer

Gems from August 2015

39 - Stopping previews
40 - Swarming shapes
41 - Revealing curved shapes
42 - Write-on
43 - Dashed lines

Gems from July 2015

44 - Cleaning up projects
45 - Illuminating dark layers
46 - Adjustment lights
47 - Motion paths for effect points

Gems from June 2015

48 - Conform frame rate
49 - Working color space
50 - Grow Bounds
51 - Replace source
52 - Sequence layers

Gems from May 2015

53 - Temporary tools
54 - Guide Layers
55 - Set first vertex
56 - Cropping on output

Gems from April 2015

57 - Alpha Add mode
58 - Effects instancing
59 - Null objects and tracking