I'll Teach You After Effects in 60 Minutes...
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Published 2023-04-17
This is the first primer lesson from my 9-week Motion Foundation course, the ultimate beginner's guide to Motion Design.
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Chapters:
00:00 Overview
00:49 After Effects User Interface
01:34 Importing Footage
02:19 Creating a Composition
03:34 The After Effects Timeline
04:39 Trimming Layers
05:20 Work Area
05:51 Zooming In & Out
06:18 Adding & Editing Text
08:06 Aligning Layers
08:45 Animating With Keyframes
11:52 Duplicating Layers
13:00 Mattes
15:17 Creating a Background
15:54 Importing Layers from Illustrator
17:30 Composition Length
18:24 Shape Layers
20:18 Masks
23:18 Easing
26:35 Offseting Motion
28:05 Precomposing
30:12 Looping
31:15 Push-In by Animating Scale
32:42 Parenting & Linking Layers
34:00 Organizing The Project
35:22 Motion Foundation
35:40 Shot 03 Setup
36:42 Stop-Motion Effect
39:20 Effects & Presets
40:12 Hue & Saturation
41:10 Adding Contrast with Curves
42:26 Adding a Solid Background
42:55 Logo Animation
45:20 Creating a Border
45:55 Fill & Stroke
46:05 Create a Looping Texture
50:32 Blending Modes
51:43 Final Effects & Adjustment Layers
54:20 Combining Shots in a Sequence
55:23 Rendering
All Comments (21)
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As someone who actually lied about knowing how to use AE, thank you from the bottom of my heart. You're a real life saviour.
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3 years ago when I started after effects, I have been dreaming for a video this clear and straightforward to learn the software. And today im still watching it in 1.75 speed in case I missed the basics during my learning thank you ben you are a legend of this sport
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All this lesson is a $1000 course here in my country, and they did this for 3 months, but for you, it's free and 60 minutes! Insanely good! I learn much more here in your videos than in my program I enrolled in at university.
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Keep doing what you do! Tutorial channels are the heart of creators ❤
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This is the most straight forward tutorial I've ever seen... Kudos!!!
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Oh Ben... Absolutely incredible. Thank you so much for your dedication to disseminating useful information, from basics to more advanced, in such a fun way for all these years!! Can't wait to see who else this will help and what will be created <3
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Wow, diving into After Effects with your tutorial was an incredible experience! Your teaching style is clear and easy to follow. I appreciate how you break down everything, making it approachable for beginners like me. Looking forward to watching and following more tutorials from you – you're a fantastic instructor!
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please never stop doing tutorials! 1. Your voice is soo nice!! 2. You´re really really good at explaining and i didn´t even got bored while watching this one hour tutorial without skipping a part
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Oh wow! Thank you! This is an amazing introductory tutorial that is packed with really helpful tips. In three little different projects you explain a lot of different parts and different uses of After Effects. Your explanation is also very clear, direct and easy to follow. Incredible...
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Ben, thank you for uploading this. I spent about 3-4 hours today just slowly going through it andg etting used to it. This is gonna really open up a lot for me in my creative efforts. I'm super grateful. I wish had money to give you.
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Hands down the best AE tutorial ever! This video alone is why I will be purchasing the 9 week course!
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I already knew pretty much everything on the video (which I expected), and yet I still watched it all, without speeding it up. That's how good your videos are. Thanks for always sharing so much stuff ❤
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Adore your content, so clear and easy to follow. Basically ASMR of tutorials. Love it.
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This is the first video I've seen which is so straight forward and with the explanation so easy to digest. Thanks Ben!
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I'm just starting after effects right now, and this was so helpful! Your style of explaining makes it so easy! Will be looking for more of your tutorials! Keep up the amazing work! :)
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i'm half way through and just wanted to say THANK YOU so much for explaining everything!
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I needed to rush a project and this video has helped me with the basics of AE! Thank you Ben! Another subscriber gained ❤
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This was really helpful and straight to the point which I really appreciate bc some of these go on forever
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So proud of you! thank you for all your effort to help <3
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Here we have a great teacher . Thank you Ben ❤
