Learn to use expressions—short snippets of math—to generate and automate various types of effects in Adobe After Effects.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- What you will learn
- Using the exercise files
- Things to keep in mind when adding expressions
- Adding expressions
- Commenting expressions
- Editing expressions manually
- Pick-whipping expressions
- Modifying an expression you did not create
- Changing the rate of an expression
- Changing the value of an expression
- Wiggle expression
- Music amplitude
- Expression controls
- Convert an expression to keyframes
- Posting an expression graph with a visible expression editor
- Variables and arrays
- Elements of an array
- Using simple variables to adjust just one dimension
- Controlling minimum and maximum return values
- Using the playhead for control
- Ease expressions
- More wiggle
- JavaScript math
- Loops
- Turning layers on and off
- Dynamically positioning text on the lower-third
- Dynamically changing the size of the font
- Restricting users to three fonts
- Using multiple lines of text dynamically
- Changing designs by using a slider
- Random values
- Delay
- Amplitude, frequency, and decay
- Bounce
- "toComp" expression
- Next steps
Taught by
Luisa Winters