After Effects CC Masterclass: Complete After Effects Course

Learn After Effects CC to improve your videos with professional motion graphics and visual effects.

(9,219 ratings), 325,644 students

  • Last updated Nov 23, 2020
  • Language English
  • Created by Phil Ebiner, Video School

What you'll learn

  • Includes CC 2020 Updates!
  • You will know how to use After Effects to make your videos better than ever
  • You will be comfortable using After Effects - even if you're a beginner
  • Create professional motion graphics that improve your videos
  • Export high quality videos from After Effects and know how to use it with Premiere Pro efficiently
  • Know how to create a video project from start to finish in After Effects
  • Add creative visual effects to your video projects
  • You will have the full support of an instructor who loves teaching

Requirements

  • You should have Adobe After Effects installed so you can follow along with the course lessons. We'll be using the Creative Cloud version of After Effects, but you can do many of the lessons in a previous version if you don't have After Effects CC.
  • You DO NOT need any experience with After Effects. This course is for beginners and assumes you don't have any experience with the program.

Course Detail

Get ready to create motion graphics that will improve your video quality. If you've always wanted to learn how to use video effects and create custom motion graphics, you can learn After Effects CC right now. The lessons are meant to teach you how to think like a motion graphics/video effects artist. After Effects is a robust tool that is capable of creating almost any video effect out there. You'll learn all of the basics, intermediate, and some advanced techniques, from working with shapes, text, and textures to video effects, transitions, and 3d camera.

Here is a glimpse of what we'll be covering:
  • Getting comfortable with After Effects CC
  • Starting a new composition
  • Using the basic tools
  • Working in the After Effects CC timeline
  • Adding shape and text layers
  • Green screen and chromakey removal
  • Visual effects and rotoscoping
  • Motion tracking and video stabilization
  • Creating unique transitions
  • Exporting your projects
  • and so much more!

Course content

28 sections • 214 lectures • 26h 12m total length

Introduction 5 lectures • 17min

  • Welcome Preview 02:34
  • Download the Course Project Files Preview 02:34
  • Animate Your Name! Preview 02:34
  • Tutorial Request Form Preview 02:34
  • After Effects Updates + My Favorite CC 2020 Updates Preview 02:34

After Effects Basics 9 lectures • 56min

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Animating with Keyframes 7 lectures • 46min

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Shapes and Solid Layers 6 lectures • 30min

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Important After Effects Skills 10 lectures • 51min

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3D Animations and the Camera Tool 5 lectures • 28min

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Bonus Project: House of Cards Intro Graphics 7 lectures • 40min

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Phil Ebiner

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My professional background is in video production and editing. I graduated from Loyola Marymount University's School of Film and Television in 2011. Since then, I've worked on thousands of projects that have appeared in movie theaters, film festivals, television and online. Today, I create all kinds of things from photographs that can be seen on my Instagram to homemade sourdough bread that feeds my family. Who knows where life will take me. But I know wherever I am, I'll be creating.

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  • 26 hours on-demand video
  • 12 articles
  • 18 downloadable resources
  • Full lifetime access
  • Access on mobile and TV
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  • Certificate of completion
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