After Effects lesson 1

After effects is a digital motion graphics and compositing software by adobe. Its main purpose os for film and video post production.

On our first lesson of after effects we covered a lot of the basics to get us going.

Here are somethings that I learnt:

Project Panel- organise, view and manage footage. Add assest to this panel which are individual compositions

For Ai and Psd files go file>import>file

PAL= UK standard

NTSC US Standard- different sizes/ sequence speeds to uk

PAL Digital Videos are rectangular pixels.

DV Square pixel= square pixels

For the brief we are doing, silent movie we needs to use PAL D1/DV widescreen Square Pixels

Solid= layer filled with a colour, can be resized

Playback=spacebar...slow if a lot of layers. use RAM preview, plays in real time

reduce quality by clicking on resolution and changing to full, half, quarter.

Layer Properties>Transform>keyframes let you play around with effects

Keyboard shortcuts

Show only the current selected panel

Tild key -'

Layer property shortcuts

P- position

A- Anchor Point

S- scale

R- rotation

T- opacity

O- out point of current layer

I- in point of current layer

B- beginning of work area

N- end of work area

U- Reveal all animated properties

UU- Reveal modified layers

Exporting

Composition>add to render queue

render settings>best settings

Output module- Quicktime