Adobe After Effects Classroom in a Book (2023 release)

About Classroom in a Book

Prerequisites

Installing After Effects, Bridge, and Media Encoder

Activating fonts

Optimizing performance

Restoring default preferences

Online content

How to use these lessons

Additional resources

Adobe Authorized Training Centers

1 GETTING TO KNOW THE WORKFLOW 

About the After Effects work area

Getting started

Creating a project and importing footage

Creating a composition and arranging layers

About layers

Adding effects and modifying layer properties

Animating the composition

About the Tools panel

About timecode and duration

About the Timeline panel

Previewing your work

Optimizing performance in After Effects

Rendering and exporting your composition

Customizing workspaces

Controlling the brightness of the user interface

Collaborating in After Effects

Finding resources for using After Effects

Review questions and answers

2 CREATING A BASIC ANIMATION USING EFFECTS AND PRESETS 

Getting started

Creating a new composition

Working with imported Illustrator layers

Applying effects to a layer

Applying and controlling effects

Applying an animation preset

Precomposing layers for a new animation

Previewing the effects

Adding transparency

Rendering the composition

Review questions and answers

3 ANIMATING TEXT 

Getting started

About text layers

Installing a font using Adobe Fonts

Creating and formatting point text

Animating with scale keyframes

Using a text animation preset

About Adobe Bridge

Animating imported Photoshop text

Animating type tracking

Animating text opacity

Animating an image to replace text

Using a text animator group

About text animator groups

Animating a layer’s position

Adding motion blur

Review questions and answers

4 WORKING WITH SHAPE LAYERS 

Getting started

Creating the composition

Adding a shape layer

Creating a self-animating shape

Duplicating a shape

Creating custom shapes with the Pen tool

Positioning layers with snapping

Animating a shape

Animating using parenting

Using nulls to connect points

About parent and child layers

Previewing the composition