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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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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This is the best After effects lesson you can find anywhere. I got so much out of it. I can't thank you enough.
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Keep doing what you do! Tutorial channels are the heart of creators ❤
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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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Adore your content, so clear and easy to follow. Basically ASMR of tutorials. Love it.
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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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A very nice, clean description of the basics. Nothing frivolous and nicely timed. Well done! Thank you.
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loved this, so easy to follow, perfect speed and level of info
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This is the most straight forward tutorial I've ever seen... Kudos!!!
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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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Fantastic video! I'll be watching this a couple of times to really get the hang of it, but I got so much practical content out of this! Thank you!
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Lifechanging! So clear and straightforward. Thank you very much!
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Completed this project and it turned out great. Thanks.
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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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This was really helpful and straight to the point which I really appreciate bc some of these go on forever
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I love you. This was the best tutorial I have ever watched! Thank you so much!!
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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
