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LinkedIn Learning

Improve your After Effects Skills

via LinkedIn Learning Path

Overview

After Effects is a critical tool for motion graphics artists and video editors. If you are experienced in After Effects and looking to take your skills beyond the basics, this is the learning path for you!
  • Learn about important third-party scripts and plugins.
  • Create editable templates that you can use in Premiere Pro.
  • Automate simple tasks with expressions.

Syllabus

Courses under this program:
Course 1: After Effects Scripts & Tips: 1 Animation Techniques
-Learn tricks that make working in After Effects easier and more fun. Explore free scripts you can install for a faster workflow and learn about animation, design theory, and more.

Course 2: After Effects Guru: Templates for Premiere Pro and After Effects
-Learn how to work with and create After Effects text templates that you can then modify in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Course 3: After Effects Guru: Integrating Type into Video Volume 2
-Learn four unique type treatments that integrate with action on screen. Find out how to explode text, create liquid text, map text to moving objects, and animate type in Z space.

Course 4: After Effects Guru: Plugins You Should Know
-Discover options in After Effects and third-party plugins you can use to improve your workflow and enhance your project.

Course 5: After Effects Apprentice: 17 Video Walls in Cinema 4D Lite
-Want to play video on objects in your After Effects animations? Learn how to map video onto the face of 3D objects with CINEMA 4D Lite, and then composite animated 3D text over it.

Course 6: After Effects Guru: Expressions
-Use expressions in Adobe After Effects to save time animating motion graphics. Learn how to add and edit expressions, use variables, and assign random values.

Courses

Taught by

Owen Lowery, Nick Harauz, Eran Stern, Chris Meyer and Luisa Winters

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