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After Effects CC, Part 4: Tracker & Expressions

with expert John Wiley & Sons


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Course at a glance


Release date 2/21/2015
Level Beginner
Runtime 1h 17m
Closed captioning N/A
Transcript N/A
eBooks / courseware Included
Hands-on labs N/A
Sample code Included
Exams N/A


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Course description

After Effects is one of the creative industries leading motion graphics and visual effects programs, and After Effects CC includes even more great tools to bring your creations to life. In this four part learning series, you can learn the ins and outs of maximizing After Effects CC – from basic animation to motion sketching and beyond – with After Effects CC. Find your way around the After Effects interface and preview still images, video, sound, and compositions. Understand basic animation principles and work with masks, mattes, keys, texts, audio, and 3D layers. Take on advanced animation techniques like motion sketching, graph editing, warp stabilizing, and camera tracking. Share your projects on the web, TV, and other digital displays.

Prerequisites

This course assumes you have familiarity with Adobe After Effects. This course is part of 4 courses, After Effects CC: Preview & Management, After Effects CC: Parent, Mats and Text, After Effects CC: Text, Audio and 3D, and After Effects CC: Tracker & Expressions. Please be sure to view the courses in order if you are new to the material.

Meet the expert

Our Creative Design courses are presented by experts from Wiley Publishing. Wiley is a global provider of knowledge and knowledge-enabled services that improve outcomes in areas of research, professional practice, and education. They are the publisher of award-winning journals, encyclopedias, books, and online products and services.

Course outline



Tracker and Expressions

Effects,Sketch and Graph (24:50)
  • Introduction (00:08)
  • Animating Effects (04:25)
  • Angle Setting (04:43)
  • Motion Sketch (02:09)
  • Recording Sketch (05:00)
  • Graph Editor (03:20)
  • Easing (04:55)
  • Summary (00:08)
Stabilizer, Tracker and Motion (19:18)
  • Introduction (00:08)
  • Wrap Stabilizer (05:31)
  • 3D Camera Tracker (04:48)
  • Tracking Motion (04:34)
  • Analyze Forward Button (04:08)
  • Summary (00:08)
Expressions (13:49)
  • Introduction (00:08)
  • Using Expressions (02:50)
  • Preview Animation (04:16)
  • More with Expressions (03:03)
  • Solo Button (03:22)
  • Summary (00:08)
Rendering, Triming and Features (19:45)
  • Introduction (00:08)
  • Rendering the Final Project (04:13)
  • Rendering Settings Template (04:49)
  • Triming and Saving Stills (03:35)
  • New Features (03:27)
  • Refine Edge (03:23)
  • Summary (00:08)