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Adding Media to Your Project and the Timeline

Lesson 5 from: Adobe After Effects Fundamentals

Philip Ebiner

Adding Media to Your Project and the Timeline

Lesson 5 from: Adobe After Effects Fundamentals

Philip Ebiner

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5. Adding Media to Your Project and the Timeline

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Class Trailer

Chapter 1: Introduction

1

Class Updates & My Favorite CC 2020 Updates

06:22

Chapter 2: After Effects Basics

2

Understand the After Effects Workspace

05:39
3

Starting a New Composition

08:15
4

CC 2018 Update - Starting a New Composition from Footage

01:55
5

Adding Media to Your Project and the Timeline

05:08
6

Using the Basic After Effects Tools

10:20
7

Create a Perfect Circle, Alignment, and Shape Colors

03:04
8

Working in the Timeline

10:59
9

Layer Properties

08:57
10

Quiz: After Effects Basics

Chapter 3: Animating with Keyframes

11

Animating in After Effects

07:35
12

Position, Scale, and Rotation Animations

05:17
13

Tips to Make Your Animations Look More Nautral

04:21
14

Using the Graph Editor

05:32
15

Challenge - Bouncing Ball

01:01
16

Solution - Bouncing Ball

13:00
17

Quiz: Animating with Keyframes

Chapter 4: Shapes and Solid Layers

18

Working with Solid Layers and the Ken Burns Effects

07:07
19

Working with Shape Layers, Strokes, and Paths

06:24
20

Adding Layer Styles like Drop Shadow, Bevel, and Gradients

03:44
21

Shape Effects - Trim Path Animations, Wiggle, and Zig Zag

05:54
22

Quiz: Shapes and Solid Layers

Chapter 5: Important After Effects Skills

23

Track Matte Animations - Make Layers Appear and Disappear

08:37
24

Using Pre-Compositions to Group Layers

05:34
25

Easily Reverse Complicated Animations

02:14
26

Playing with Time

05:54
27

Blend Modes

06:05
28

Stabilize Shaky Footage

04:04
29

CC 2018 Update - Previewing and Favoriting Fonts

00:46
30

CC 2019 Update - Responsive Design Time

03:36
31

CC 2019 Content Aware Fill

03:55
32

CC 2019 Create Motion Graphic Templates

08:37
33

Quiz: Important After Effects Skills

Chapter 6: Motion Graphics Projects

34

Intro to Motion Graphics Projects

00:53
35

Clean Lower Third

09:22
36

Logo Reveal Animation Bumper

13:25
37

Colorful Transition

16:59
38

Text with Mask Path Animation

10:05
39

Text Bubble Animation

13:39
40

Weather App 1

16:41
41

Weather App 2

08:21
42

Weather App 3

06:59
43

Quiz: Motion Graphics Projects

Chapter 7: Flat Animation Challenge

44

Flat Animation Challenge

02:47
45

Phil Designs his Flat Animation Scene

01:23
46

Animating Fireworks with the Repeater Effect

15:02

Chapter 8: Flat Animation Challenge

47

Removing Green Screen Background

06:46
48

Adding a Background that Matches the Foreground

07:55
49

Adding Motion to a Still Image with the Puppet Tool

06:26
50

Adding Movement with the Ripple Effect

06:07
51

Quiz: Flat Animation Challenge

Chapter 9: Green Screen (Chromakeying)

52

Intro to 3D

10:04
53

Swinging 3D Text Animation

12:11
54

Build Out Your 3D Composition

05:47
55

Animating Our 3D Scene

07:38
56

Create Stars in After Effects

05:11
57

Quiz: Green Screen (Chromakeying)

Chapter 10: 3D Animations and the Camera Tool

58

Using the Rotoscope Tool

06:55
59

Cleaning Up Your Edges

07:21
60

Finishing Our Rotobrush Animation

07:33
61

Quiz: 3D Animations and the Camera Tool

Chapter 11: Rotoscoping

62

Easy Screen Replacement with Masks

09:56
63

Replacing a Screen Version 2

13:49
64

Screen Replacement with Mocha

07:13
65

CC 2019 Update - Native Mocha AE Plugin

05:08
66

Quiz: Rotoscoping

Chapter 12: Screen Replacements

67

Using the Puppet Pin Tool

04:33
68

Animating Your Puppet Pins

03:04
69

Animated Blinking Eyes

08:21
70

Adding Perspective with Animated Clouds

07:10
71

CC 2018 Update - Advanced Puppet Pin Tool

02:08
72

Quiz: Screen Replacements

Chapter 13: Puppet Tool Animations

73

Applying Text Animation Presets

05:59
74

Create a Page Turn Effect with CC Page Turn

10:05
75

Radial and Linear Wipes

03:20
76

Color Correction in After Effects

03:33
77

CC 2019 Update - Selective Color Adjustments

03:25
78

Quiz: Puppet Tool Animations

Chapter 14: Motion Tracking

79

Motion Tracking Basics

09:51
80

Tracking Text and Visual Effects to Video Clip

06:21
81

Tracking Rotation and Scale

11:33
82

Adding Details to Our Text

04:04
83

Quiz: Motion Tracking

Chapter 15: Character Animations

84

Intro to Character Animations

01:31
85

Design Your Character

14:32
86

Rigging Your Character

02:50
87

Animating Our Character

09:55
88

Adding the Animated Background

09:12
89

Adding Details to Character Movement

06:46
90

Adding the Paper Cut Out Look

05:29
91

Quiz: Character Animations

Chapter 16: Exporting from After Effects

92

Exporting an H264 File from After Effects

07:03
93

Exporting from After Effects with a Transparent Background

04:03
94

Exporting from After Effects through Adobe Media Encoder

04:40
95

CC 2018 Update - Exporting an Animated GIF from Adobe Media Encoder

02:14
96

Create an Animated GIF from After Effects CC 2017

07:03

Chapter 17: After Effects Workflow & Tips

97

Audio Tips for After Effects

02:19
98

Working with Premiere Pro

05:54
99

Quiz: After Effects Workflow & Tips

Chapter 18: Expressions

100

Expressions Basics

07:24
101

Animate a Flickering Light with Expressions

17:35
102

Quiz: Expressions

Chapter 19: Conclusion

103

Conclusion

00:44

Final Quiz

104

Final Quiz

Lesson Info

Adding Media to Your Project and the Timeline

a lot of what we'll be doing in after effects. We create from scratch right within after effects. So creating things like titles and motion graphics, you can build most of that right within after effects. Other times though you'll be using after effects to apply visual effects to video clips or you'll be using photographs that you created and you'll be adding effects to that. Or maybe you'll even be adding music and sound effects right within after effects. I typically do that in adobe premiere pro because it's a little bit easier and more efficient for me. But you can still do it in after effects to import media into your project to work on. Just go to your finder folder or your documents folder and then you can simply drag any asset into your project been. So for example, if I wanted to bring in this picture of a kangaroo that I shot in Australia, I can just simply drag it and drop it in after effects and you can see that when I get that plus green button, it means that I can drop it...

into my project panel. And then the other ways you can import are just by right clicking choose import and then choose file. And then you could go to your folders through this. So for example, if I wanted to bring in some music, I can pick this music, click open. Or I could go up to file, import again, import file. Let's import a video for example, do this video sample and click open once it's imported, I definitely suggest organizing your footage. I typically create folders or bins for the different types of footage. So for example, I can create a new folder by clicking this new folder button and then call it video for example. And then I would put all of my video clips in this video folder or if I'm working on multiple compositions within the same project, which I'll tend to do, I have many compositions right within one project, I might separate them into different folders. For example, I would typically have a name for these graphics, but I would call this graphic one and then within this graphic one folder, I would put all the music and all the photos that I used for this graphic and within this folder, I might even create sub folders for photos, for example, and then put the photos within that folder. I find it is going to help you a lot. If you learn to organize your footage, there's no right or wrong way to do it. I think you just kinda have to figure out what works best for you and it might change depending on the project but please keep everything organized as you work through your projects. It will just make you a better after effects user in the long run. How do you actually work with this footage or all of these assets that you're bringing in while you basically add them to your timeline. There's different ways to do that. Let me take this photo, for example and drag it into my composition, there's two ways to do it. You can drag it right onto your composition window itself or down into the timeline. Now, let me show you what happens when I drag it onto the composition, See it just pops in right there and you'll notice that this layer has been added to our after effects timeline down here and it's been added to this entire sequence or this entire composition from start to finish for all five seconds. Now, let me take the same photo again, drag it into the timeline. But you'll see now that as I drag from left to right, there's that little icon that moves left and right in the timeline bar and this is where it's going to start. So if I wanted to start at one second, for example, I'll just drop it right there and now you'll see that this photo Starts at 1/2. I can move the current time indicator to the right and see where this one starts. But you'll see that I don't see that photo that I just added down here and that's because it's beneath this other king room photo. So if I want, I can drag this second kangaroo photo this layer right here above the other one by clicking on it over here in the left hand side of the timeline, above our other kangaroo and you'll see that it actually added it to sort of a different position. This first one added to where I dropped it. Let me delete that one more time to show you. So if I want to move, drag it and drop it in over on the right hand side, I can do that. Now again, I'm going to move this beneath my other kangaroo layer and you'll see if I scrub through just by clicking and dragging through this composition. It goes from this photo to that photo. So think of after effects as layering different media assets on top of each other. Whatever is on top will show in the next lesson we'll be using and looking at some of the most important tools up here in the toolbar.

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