Bring your 2D characters to life
Learn how to use Creative Cloud Libraries to organize, reuse, and share creative assets in your post-production workflow. (Try it, 5 min)
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After Effects CC tutorials from novice to expert
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New to After Effects CC? Start here.
1. Overview — Take a one-minute tour.
2. Essentials for beginners — Short tutorials to get you going.
3. Ready to use it? — This hands-on project is the best way to learn.
Learn essentials
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After Effects workspace
Essential tasks
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Create your first project -
Import files from Photoshop to After Effects -
Importing and interpreting footage items -
Use the digital asset manager -
Build compositions with layers -
Transform layers -
Keyframe animation -
Create text elements -
Apply effects and shapes -
Finish your project -
Export compositions in After Effects -
Use the Render Queue to export files -
Basics of rendering and exporting -
Share and explore portfolios
Compositing
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Create a new composition -
Add assets to a composition -
Add layers to a composition -
Create layers -
Create crisp graphics for video in Illustrator -
Export compositions to Adobe Media Encoder -
Easily find missing footage, fonts, and effects -
Add fonts to desktop apps through Creative Cloud -
Use the Layer Snapping feature -
Set scaling quality using bicubic sampling
Animating and masks
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Understanding animation -
Bring your 2D characters to life -
Create a puppet animation -
Add and adjust keyframes -
Effects and animation presets overview -
Creating shapes and masks -
Track a mask in After Effects -
Face tracking -
Alpha channels, masks, and mattes -
Use shape tools to make masks -
Use the Pen tool to make masks -
Animate and morph masks -
Luma and Alpha modes in track mattes -
Animate track mattes -
Apply motion tracking to rigid masks -
Use masks to control effects -
Use captured shapes to create motion graphics -
Create a hoverboard effect
Effects
Rotoscoping
Introduction to 3D
Introduction to Cinema 4D
Key techniques
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Cinema 4D techniques
Post-production workflows
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Use Adobe Stock video footage with Creative Cloud Libraries -
Use Creative Cloud Libraries in post-production -
Audition for After Effects users -
Create a YouTube video with RocketJump -
Work in After Effects and Premiere Pro simultaneously -
Create shape layers from vector layers for easy animation -
Make animated backgrounds for video projects -
Apply effects on export with Adobe Media Encoder -
Create text templates for Premiere Pro -
Sync and share files and folders with collaborators
New features
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November 2015
June 2015
October 2014
June 2014
December 2013
October 2013
June 2013
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Insert 3D objects -
Stabilize footage with Warp Stabilizer VFX -
Apply motion blur -
Matching camera motion with the 3D Camera Tracker -
Easily find missing footage, fonts, and effects -
Use the Refine Edge tool -
Propagate refined edges -
Fine-tune with Refine Edge Matte options -
Use the Roto Brush -
Import a native Cinema 4D project file -
Edit a native Cinema 4D model -
New features summary
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