After Effects Guru: Mastering the Timeline

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About this Course

Even if you've already established an After Effects workflow that suits you, exploring overlooked features and shortcuts can only help you work more efficiently with this powerful application.

In this course, learn tips for creating a fast and efficient motion graphics workflow in the After Effects timeline-leaving you with more time for creativity.

This installment of After Effects Guru reveals time-saving features for navigating to specific timecodes, adjusting keyframes, changing layer behavior, working with layer modes, and using composition markers.

 

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Welcome
  3. Exercise files
  4. Using workspaces
  5. Scrolling the timeline
  6. Going to a specific time
  7. Defining the work area
  8. Advancing frames
  9. Finding items in the timeline
  10. Controlling playback in the timeline
  11. Navigating your photo organization
  12. Hiding, showing, and rearranging columns
  13. Using shy layers to simplify the timeline
  14. Controlling your timeline view by soloing layers
  15. Organizing with labels
  16. Controlling audio playback in the timeline
  17. Essential animation shortcuts
  18. Viewing all keyframes
  19. Showing only audio levels and audio waveforms
  20. Viewing only effects properties
  21. Retiming keyframes
  22. Using the graph editor to refine keyframes
  23. Using animation assistants to refine keyframes
  24. Navigating keyframes in the timeline
  25. How to nudge keyframes
  26. Keyframing with motion sketch
  27. Improving playback with Draft 3D
  28. Smoothing movement with motion blur
  29. Scaling vector objects with the continuously rasterize switch
  30. The collapse transformations switch
  31. Smoother speed changes with frame blending
  32. Working with adjustment layers
  33. The effect of the layer quality and sampling switch
  34. Choosing a specific layer
  35. Moving a layer's in and out points
  36. Trimming a layer's duration with in and out points
  37. Nudging a layer in the timeline
  38. Changing the stacking order for a layer
  39. Splitting a layer
  40. Renaming layers
  41. Locking layers in After Effects
  42. Controlling layers with a numeric keypad
  43. Animating with the Sequence Layers command
  44. Getting results with blending modes
  45. Preserving underlying transparency
  46. Using track mattes
  47. Animating with parenting
  48. Composition markers
  49. Setting a duration for markers
  50. Tapping out the beat

1. Language: English. 

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