After Effects For Beginners

Learn to customize After Effects workspaces by saving and resetting layouts, adding the effect control panel, and organizing panels for efficient media import and composition work.

Direct footage onto this icon to create a composition with the same frame rate and resolution. Adjust frame rate, duration, and pixel aspect ratio under composition or new composition.

Bring media into the timeline, view it in composition panel and preview panel, and adjust layer positions by dragging; use the ghost timeline indicator to place layers and practice navigation.

Master masking and shapes in After Effects by creating rectangle and ellipse masks, editing vertices, and adjusting feather, opacity, and expansion for precise reveals.

Create and customize shape layers in After Effects, adjusting stroke, fill, color, and opacity; then draw a custom shape with the convert vertex tool, bezier handles, and timeline reference.

Discover the fundamentals of keyframe animation in After Effects by creating a composition, animating position, rotation, and scale with automatically added keyframes, and adjusting timing and anchor points for motion.

Learn how to use pre-compose in After Effects to group multiple layers into a single pre-compose, enabling quick color changes and coordinated effects across all contained layers.

Explore the matte technique in After Effects by using track mattes to define boundaries with a shape mask, revealing text and enhancing fire footage through levels adjustments.

Master keying green screen footage in After Effects with key light, masking, and inverted masks; refine with screen matte, clip whites/blacks, then render in h.264.