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Creating animation without presets - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects CS5 Essential Training
Creating animation without presets
And now we are going to look at manually animating properties. And this is kind of a complex topic. Once you get the hang of it, it's actually very easy. And everything in the After Effects animates the same way, whether you are animating something like fading in or moving from side to side, or you are animating some component of an effect or whatever; everything animates the same way. So, once you get the Zen of After Effects animation, if you will, then it's really, really an easy program because everything, again, animates the same way. But this isn't the time or the place really to get into that. We are going to save that for a little bit later on in the training series, a couple of chapters down the road. So, for now, just kind of follow along with me just to get the overall feeling of the way animation works. So, I am going to select the filigree stems layer. That's layer 10. I am going to click this little stopwatch here next to Transition Completion, and I am going to click…
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After Effects workflow overview2m 18s
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Bringing elements into After Effects2m 23s
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Adding elements to the Timeline1m 57s
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Working with layers3m 45s
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Creating animation with presets3m 24s
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Applying effects3m 34s
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Creating animation without presets5m 38s
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Previewing your work2m 46s
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Exporting content as a movie file2m 29s
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