Adobe After Effects MegaCourse: Basic to Advanced FEB 2025

Create text and subtitles in the after effects composition using the horizontal type tool or ctrl t, adjust font size, leading, tracking, kerning, and trim or split layers.

Learn to create a typewriter-style text animation in Adobe After Effects by animating position with range selectors, keyframes, and start-end values from 0 to 100.

Apply the typewriter effect to a text layer in After Effects, without masking, using keyframes to control speed and animate tracking from wide to narrow, with a color transition.

Learn to create karaoke lyrics in Adobe After Effects using the type tool, outline control, stroke alignment, and per‑layer color variations, then reveal lyrics with animated rectangular masks and keyframes.

Learn to liquify text in After Effects by building a multi-layer liquid composite with figures, animating length and rotation via keyframes, and using an alpha matte.

Learn to create a text countdown in After Effects using a slider control on a text layer. Link the source text with an expression to count from 0 to 12.

Master the shape tool in Adobe After Effects to create shapes, customize fill and stroke, apply linear or radial gradients, and edit gradient stops for rich layers.

Learn to create masks in After Effects with the pen tool, draw paths, adjust anchor points, build mesh shapes, and use blend modes like subtract to form holes.

Master the pen tool for shape layers, creating and adjusting anchor points and arcs, setting stroke and fill, and using the anchor point to spin the shape.

Animate position, scale, opacity, and rotation in After Effects using keyframes and the stopwatch. Learn to adjust x and y axes, flip or spin with positive or negative rotations.

Learn to time remap and loop a video in After Effects. Set a 30-second loop with loop out, adjust the end length, and use keyframes to control the loop speed.

Master time controls in After Effects by applying a freeze frame, adjusting the time stretch factor to slow or speed playback, and using time reverse to start at the end.

Learn how layer styles in After Effects add drop shadow, inner and outer glow, bevel and emboss, overlays, and stroke, and note their rendering efficiency versus effects and presets.

Master masking with alpha and luma matte options in After Effects using track matte, shape layers, and the pen tool to shape masks, feather edges, and apply a freeze frame.

Explore brightness and contrast in Adobe After Effects 2022, apply the brightness and contrast effect to your timeline, adjust values in the effects controls, and preview the result.

Create fireworks in after effects by applying the particle world effect on a solid layer, then adjust producer position, radius, particle type, birth and death colors, velocity, gravity, and direction.

Learn to create a split clone effect in after effects using the roto brush to mask the subject and animate layers with keyframes.

Explore and apply various blur effects in Adobe After Effects, including camera lens blur, cross blur, radial blur, and vector blur, adjusting radius, center, directions, and edge handling.

Explore channel blur in Adobe After Effects, adjusting red, green, blue, and alpha to separate colors and create foggy silhouettes. Use horizontal, vertical, and directional blurs to refine the image.

Learn to change colors in after effects using hue/saturation, colorize, and eyedropper tools to target blues, greens, and yellows, and adjust saturation, lightness, and tonal shifts.

Master chromakeying in Adobe After Effects by applying linear color key and key light to remove the green screen, then adjust screen gain, clip black, clip white, and screen balance.

Apply the drop shadow effect in Adobe After Effects, adjust distance, opacity, color, direction and softness on a shape layer, and use the shadow only option to refine visibility.

Explore bevel and glow effects in After Effects, adjusting bevel edges and alpha, inner and outer glow, light angle, intensity, and color on shape layers.

Explore After Effects distortion effects, adjusting radius, brush height, and center point to create bulges, then apply kaleidoscopic flow and tile tiling with falloff.

Explore distortion effects in After Effects 2022, including smear with reach and radius, split and split two for mouth-like motion, and corner pin and liquefy with brush and mesh options.

Explore distortion effects in After Effects by applying magnifier, mirror, ripple, twirl, and spherize to adjust zoom, reflection, center points, and radii.

Learn to create a handwritten text reveal with motion paths in After Effects: draw a mask with the pen tool, apply stroke, and animate keyframes.

Learn to create a basic glitch effect in After Effects by using a text layer, fractal noise on a black solid, a displacement map with luma, and animated horizontal blocks.

Create a smoke effect in After Effects by drawing a curved shape with the pen tool, applying camera lens blur and wave warp, then adjust opacity.

Create a smoke effect in Adobe After Effects 2022 using a black solid with fractal noise, then animate with time and offset turbulence expressions, and refine with contrast and masking.

Apply the scatter effect to shape layers in After Effects, adjust the scatter amount for dynamic transitions, and use Posterize on picture layers to control color realism with levels.

Learn to create a fade transition between two clips using opacity keyframes, then add a spin with an adjustment layer, motion style, easy ease, and motion blur.

Create an adjustment layer with optics compensation, set keyframes for field of view and reverse lens distortion, then enable motion blur and animate both videos with P, J, and K.

Learn to create a page turn transition in Adobe After Effects by applying the CC Page Turn effect to video layers, adjusting direction, radius, opacity, and timing with keyframes.

Apply the grid wipe transition from the effects and presets tab to create a transition; keyframe completion from 0 to 100, adjust tiles and border for a door-shaped, rotating reveal.

Explore built-in transition effects in After Effects, including wipe, line sweep, stair, scale wipe, twister, linear wipe, and radial wipe, with adjustable completion, direction, rotation, and center point.

Learn sky replacement in After Effects by using a color key to reveal a second layer, refine edge feather, brightness, contrast, and mask with the pen tool.

Create a flat face animation in After Effects by shaping a face with rectangle and ellipse tools, adjust fills and strokes, morph the mouth with keyframes on the shape path.

Apply the wiggle expression to the position property in After Effects, using alt-click on the stopwatch to enable it, type wiggle(2,4), and observe faster motion with higher values.

Learn to animate with the puppet pin tool by pinning a caterpillar’s head, body, and tail, refining the mesh and rotation for realistic movement, and duplicating keyframes for faster playback.

Explore After Effects audio effects in presets and effects tab, from backwards playback and delay echoes to reverb ambience, and adjust bass, treble, modulation, flange, chorus, tone, and waveform options.

Apply the audio spectrum effect in After Effects to visualize music by using a topmost white solid, and adjust the start and end frequencies, thickness, color, and audio levels.

Adjust the audio spectrum in After Effects by configuring the white solid's source, maximum height, frequency bins, softness, and hue interpolation to create analog lines, digital dots, and rainbow colors.

Download the duik bassel plugin for after effects from the provided site and extract it into the After Effects 2022 scripts folder, then enable the basil checkbox.

Rig a character in after effects using Duik Bassel to create a walk cycle, importing Illustrator artwork, setting anchor points, and building arm and leg rigs with auto rig IK.

Learn to create 3D text extrusion in After Effects by enabling 3D per character, adjusting extrusion depth and lighting, and using Cinema 4D renderer when needed.

Learn to create a gradient wave in After Effects by combining a color gradient on a solid with wave warp and turbulent displacement, using a wiggle expression for animated movement.

Master rotoscoping by painting brush strokes on video frames frame by frame, selecting brushes and colors, and navigating with keyboard shortcuts to cut, play, and review timelines.

Turn AI vector shapes into 3D logo elements in After Effects, adjust extrusion and bevel, apply specular lighting, and animate rotation with orientation keyframes using a spot light.

Render in After Effects and Adobe Media Encoder using the render queue. Set output folders, adjust resolution and frame rate, and choose quality formats such as MP4, H.264, or QuickTime.