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Intro To Motion Graphics Unit 1

Learn Motion

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Intro To Motion Graphics Unit 1

Learn Motion

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DMA 70 Unit 1- The Basic

Option+Command+Shift while starting After Effects- to restore setting


(this can be helpful on a shared, school computer

1) In the menu above choose Window- workspace- Defaul


2) In the menu above choose File-Save as “AE Unit 1” (choose where to save it
3) Double click on project panel (C) to import le (look for panda under AE Unit 1)
(or in Menu-File-Import-Import File
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4) ALWAYS import layered les as “Composition-Retain Layer Sizes”

5) Click on lm icon below the project window to open comp settings (one way to
make composition)- then drag les into timelin
6) Select ntsc dv – 12 secs (title ame
7) Or! Double click on color lm icon On panda layer in your Project panel above to
get layers in timeline (this resorts to composition size and preset preferences
8) also look at them in project pane
9) Look at the Time Panel (below image
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10) Check out tool panel

11) Save your project frequently (Here after you can simply Command+S to save)

12) in the composition panel select t up to 100

13) Using Time Navigator start and end brackets (see above) to make work area
larger or smaller for previe

14) With any layer selected Click I, O, to move to beginning or end of the laye
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15) walk through preview panel- ram previe


16) turn off eyes to the left of layer names to make layers invisibl
17) open up the layer properties by clicking on the arrows to the left of the layer – it
will reveal position, scale, rotation, and opacity (Property is the name for any value
in the timeline that can be key framed or adjusted

Here are some useful commands with layer


1) Command+A selects al
2) with any layer selected T, T, (opacity or transparency) P, P, (Position) S, S, (Scale) A, A,
(anchor point) R, R, (rotation
3) Command+C,V (copy and paste
4) Command+X (delete

The way to make layers animate are with Keyframes!!


Keyframes control animation by marking a speci c property value (any kind of
property including an effect) at a speci c point in the timeline- if you have two
keyframes with two different values the space between those keyframes are
interpolated mathematically and the program will do the animating for you! To animate
you need 2 keyframes- one to de ne a starting point and the other to display a
nishing point.
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5) Set key frames by clicking on the stopwatch with your timeline indicator at any
point on the timelin
6) Create new keyframes by moving the timeline indicator to another point on the
timeline and clicking the box to the right of the stopwatc
7) !!be careful!!! After you click the stopwatch you will loose all of your keyframes
if you click it again- so remember to only click the stopwatch once!!!

8) Make the panda! Using position, scale, rotation and opacity key frame
9) Ram preview in the Preview panel- You can “scrub” or manually preview your work
by moving the time line indicator back and forth over the timeline or you can press
the spacebar or the play button in the preview panel to Ram Preview- Note: in
After Effects you usually can’t preview a long period of time because there just isn’t
enough memory (ram) to manage it- use your work area brackets to narrow the
time you want to watch and the preview will work bette
10) Save project frequently (Command+S)

Rendering- to render is to create a video le- You have to render a lot in After
Effects because you can never really see your work until it’s rendered as AE les are so
complex and use outside sources

1) To render go to top menu-Composition-Add to Adobe Media Encoder render


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2) wait for that to open and choose “H.264” and press green play button (make
sure you set output rst) and voila – you have a rendered video in the codec
(or compressed) with Mp4. The codec literally means compression /
decompression and the idea is to make the best quality small le.
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Some short cuts-
Command C- cop
Command V- past
Command X- delet
Command Z- und
Command A- select al
Command S- Sav

On layers
T- opacit
P- positio
S- scal
R- rotatio
J- previous keyfram
K- next keyframe
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