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After Effects CC Fundamentals

by Jeff Sengstack

Anyone wanting to create exceptional visual effects, extraordinary motion graphics, and exciting animated text will want to watch this course.

What you'll learn

What many videos need are exceptional visual effects, extraordinary motion graphics, or exciting animated text. In this course, After Effects CC Fundamentals, you will learn foundational knowledge in all three of those areas. First, you will see how to animate objects; meaning put them in motion and change their size, rotation and opacity over time. Next, you will discover how to apply and animate visual effects. Finally, you will explore how to create shapes, perform color correction, and animate text. When you’re finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of After Effects needed to produce compelling digital media projects. Software required: Adobe After Effects CC.

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About the author

Jeff Sengstack is a video and audio producer. He is an Adobe certified expert in After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Photoshop. He also works with Adobe Audition, Encore, and SpeedGrade. He taught digital media and HTML courses in a community college computer studies department. He is a former TV news reporter and radio station disk jockey. He is an author with O'Reilly Media and lynda.com and has written six how-to books on digital media topics including books on Premiere Pro and Encore for Adobe ... more

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