Adobe After Effects Masterclass: From Beginner to Pro

Get started in After Effects by creating a new project and composition, understanding presets, HD 1080 settings, frame rate, and start timecode for motion graphics and visual effects.

Import images, videos, and audio into After Effects using the file menu or shortcuts, then create a new composition from a selected video with a right-click.

Explore the After Effects interface, mastering the composition panel, footage panel, and layer panel. Learn how media links, replace footage, and manage offline assets affect your project.

Master the essential After Effects tools, shortcuts, and techniques for drawing shapes and masks, adjusting fill and stroke, animating with anchor points, feathering, and masking.

Master timeline basics by dragging videos from the project panel into a composition, arranging layers, trimming with left-right arrows, and resizing while holding shift to preserve proportions.

Explore how to type and format text in After Effects, adjust fonts, sizes, and colors, and master brush, clone stamp, and eraser tools within the layer panel.

Master the transform options in After Effects, focusing on position, scale, rotation, and opacity, and learn to use the anchor point tool for accurate placement while adjusting audio levels.

Learn to create motion graphics in After Effects by mastering keyframes: set rotation, scale, and opacity with the transform stopwatches, control timing with the playhead, and build multi-frame animations.

Master keyframes in After Effects by learning to set and edit position, scale, rotation, and opacity, achieve smooth motion with easy ease, and enable motion blur for fast, realistic animations.

Learn to set and edit keyframes for position, scale, rotation, and opacity in After Effects, and apply easy ease and motion blur for smoother animations.

Create a simple lower third in After Effects using shapes and white bold text, then animate with keyframes for entry and fade out.

Learn to apply effects and presets in After Effects, using keyframes, lumetri color, and animation presets to enhance video with blur, color grading, and dynamic transitions.

Master track matte in After Effects using a white logo as the alpha matte to reveal an explosion, trim in the footage panel, and create a new comp from selection.

Learn to create a 4-second After Effects intro by building a composition, animating gradient text with tracking, layering backgrounds with screen blend, syncing scale burst to bang sound, lens flare.

Master chroma key in After Effects by removing green screen with Keylight 1.2, refining edges with screen matte, and compositing a new background for realistic news studio scenes.

Learn to use templates in After Effects to speed up editing, handle paid and free templates, convert projects for version compatibility, edit text across scenes, and export via render queue.

Export each After Effects composition by adding to the render queue. Use best settings with lossless output and preserve transparency when needed.

Celebrate completing the Adobe After Effects training for beginners and intermediates, and move to the advanced class to deepen your skills.