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Details steps for installing and registering Adobe software, including activation and product registration.
Overview of the Adobe Help Center application and its features: Product Help, Expert Support, and More Resources.
Explains how to access and navigate the After Effects documentation using the Help Center.
Information on learning resources provided by Adobe, including video workshops, Adobe Studio, and technical support.
Highlights new features in After Effects, such as a redesigned user interface, Graph Editor, and expanded file format support.
Overview of the typical Adobe After Effects workflow from importing footage to exporting the final product.
Details on how to customize the After Effects workspace by arranging panels, docking, and grouping.
Information on managing panels within the After Effects interface, including columns and views.
Introduction to Adobe Bridge, its capabilities for organizing, browsing, and managing assets like PSD, PDF, and Camera Raw files.
How to view file and folder thumbnails in Bridge, specify display options, and navigate folders.
Explanation of metadata, its importance, and how to view and edit it using the Metadata panel and File Info dialog.
Information on finding, viewing, and purchasing royalty-free images from Adobe Stock Photos.
Guidance on planning After Effects projects, considering output formats, composition settings, and rendering.
Key factors to consider during project planning to avoid errors, improve performance, and manage rendering order.
Advice on preparing footage before importing, including matching settings and using uncompressed formats.
Understanding footage items, importing various file types, and managing imported files.
Details on working with camera raw files, including their benefits and cache management in Bridge.
Using tools like white balance, exposure, and tonal adjustments in Camera Raw to modify image properties.
Guidance on importing layered files from Adobe applications, preserving layers, and organizing them.
Information on high-definition video formats, frame rates, and pixel aspect ratios for video import.
Explanation of interlaced and noninterlaced video, field separation, and pulldown.
Understanding compositions as the workspace for animation, layering, and effects.
Key factors determining composition settings: output type, footage, system requirements, and delivery medium.
How to set the composition frame rate and its relationship to footage and output frame rates.
Understanding how resolution affects image quality and rendering speed, and choosing between Full, Half, Third, Quarter, or Custom.
Compensating for non-square pixels in formats like D1 and DV video to ensure correct aspect ratio.
Overview of methods for previewing compositions: standard, RAM, and manual previews.
Details on standard preview, RAM preview, and manual preview accessible via the Time Controls panel.
Explanation of different preview modes (Wireframe, Adaptive Resolution, OpenGL) balancing quality and speed.
Techniques for changing magnification in panels and viewing safe zones and grids for layer alignment.
Understanding layers as composition components and how to create them from footage, compositions, or solids.
Methods for selecting multiple layers, changing stacking order, and aligning or distributing layers.
How to trim footage by changing In and Out points in the Layer or Timeline panels.
Using composition-time and layer-time markers to note important points, add comments, or link to web pages.
Explanation of Audio/Video and Layer switches (Solo, Lock, Shy, Collapse, Quality, Effects, Motion Blur).
Techniques for trimming footage by adjusting In and Out points in the Layer or Timeline panels.
Understanding 3D layers, their properties (z axis, lights, cameras), and interaction with 2D elements.
How After Effects applies track mattes and handles shadows for 3D layers based on Timeline order.
Applying 2D effects to 3D layers and using Comp Camera attributes for 3D effects.
Viewing 3D layers from multiple angles using orthogonal and custom views, and selecting views.
Techniques for speeding up preview time for 3D layers using Wireframe or Draft 3D modes.
Working with camera layers, light layers, and specifying points of interest for 3D scenes.
Fundamentals of animating layer properties like position, rotation, masks, and effects over time.
Using the Graph Editor to view and manipulate effect animations, keyframes, and interpolation.
Creating, selecting, and removing keyframes to control animation over time.
Techniques for editing, moving, copying, and pasting keyframes to refine animations.
Methods for scaling, flipping, moving, and rotating layers to create movement.
Saving and reusing specific property and animation configurations using animation presets.
Understanding interpolation for filling data between keyframes, including linear and Bezier methods.
Precise adjustment of animation changes using interpolation methods and graphs.
Adjusting motion paths and spatial interpolation for properties like Position.
Fine-tuning temporal property keyframes using value graphs for animation.
Speeding up or slowing down layers, including audio, by redistributing frames and keyframes.
Using time-remapping to expand, compress, play backward, or freeze parts of a layer's duration.
Creating composites using alpha channels, masks, mattes, and keying to define transparency.
Defining transparency using color or brightness values to key out pixels.
Understanding masks as paths to modify layer properties, especially the alpha channel.
Methods for creating masks using tools, converting paths, and importing Illustrator/Photoshop paths.
Selecting, locking, saving, reusing, and deleting masks within compositions.
Changing mask shapes by moving, adding, or deleting vertices, and adjusting path segments.
Overview of keying effects like Color Difference Key, Color Key, Color Range, and Difference Matte.
Using Matte Choker and Simple Choker effects to refine mattes and create cleaner edges.
Applying effects like Add Grain, Dust & Scratches, and Fractal Noise to manipulate image grain.
Adding and editing text layers with flexibility in font, style, size, color, and paragraph formatting.
Selecting and formatting individual characters using the Character panel and type tools.
Selecting font families and styles, including applying faux styles.
Adjusting the space between text and the bounding box or line for paragraph formatting.
Methods for animating text layers, including Transform properties, presets, source text, and animators.
Browsing and applying presets to animate text, including paths, fill, stroke, and other properties.
Using Range and Wiggly selectors to control which characters are affected by animator properties.
Creating and animating text along a mask path, and modifying text path properties.
Illustrative examples of text animations, including offsetting characters and using Wiggly selectors.
Overview of paint tools like Brush, Clone Stamp, and Eraser, and specifying paint stroke options.
Selecting preset brushes and designing custom brushes in the Brush Tips panel.
Creating and modifying paint strokes, including their position, shape, and options in the Timeline panel.
Using the Eyedropper tool and Color Picker to select colors for painting.
Using the Brush tool for rotoscoping, painting on individual frames over a series.
Understanding motion tracking for synchronizing visual effects with moving footage.
Using the Tracker Controls panel to set up motion source, target, and tracking types.
Step-by-step guide to tracking motion and applying it to another layer or effect.
Using motion tracking to smooth unwanted camera movement or drift in footage.
Using corner pinning to animate anchor points or corners of a target layer for perspective.
Tracking using parallel or perspective corner pinning to scale and skew target layers.
Overview of After Effects effects, their storage, and how to apply them.
How to apply, remove, and temporarily turn off effects, and how they affect layer properties.
Applying effects by selecting them from the Effect menu within After Effects.
Applying effects and animation presets using the Effects & Presets panel.
Copying and pasting effects between layers to apply them to multiple layers.
Using subpixel positioning for highly accurate placement of effect points.
Manipulating grain and noise using Add Grain, Match Grain, and Remove Grain effects.
Categorized galleries of effects, providing visual examples and page references for each.
Visual examples of 3D Channel effects like Extract, Depth Matte, and Fog 3D.
Visual examples of blur and sharpen effects like Box Blur, Gaussian Blur, and Unsharp Mask.
Visual examples of channel effects like Alpha Levels, Arithmetic, Blend, and Calculations.
Visual examples of color correction effects like Auto Color, Curves, and Hue/Saturation.
Visual examples of distort effects like Bezier Warp, Bulge, Corner Pin, and Liquify.
Visual examples of generate effects like 4-Color Gradient, Lightning, and Fractal Noise.
Visual examples of keying effects like Color Difference Key, Color Key, and Extract.
Visual examples of matte effects like Matte Choker and Simple Choker.
Visual examples of noise and grain effects like Add Grain and Remove Grain.
Visual examples of paint effects like Brush Strokes and Vector Paint.
Visual examples of perspective effects like 3D Glasses and Basic 3D.
Visual examples of simulation effects like Card Dance, Caustics, and Foam.
Visual examples of stylize effects like Brush Strokes, Glow, and Mosaic.
Visual examples of text effects like Basic Text, Numbers, and Path Text.
Visual examples of time effects like Echo, Posterize Time, and Time Difference.
Visual examples of transition effects like Block Dissolve, Card Wipe, and Gradient Wipe.
Visual examples of utility effects like Cineon Converter and Color Profile Converter.
Using expressions to create complex animations, link properties, and avoid manual keyframing.
How to access property values using object references, the pick whip, and global objects like thisComp.
Understanding arrays as ordered sets of numbers and accessing their elements using indices.
Using mathematical vector functions like add, subtract, multiply, and normalize.
Generating random numbers and arrays using seedRandom, random, and gaussRandom.
Controlling animation change with linear, Bezier, ease, and hold interpolation methods.
Accessing layer properties like width, height, index, parent, and time.
Referencing layer properties like anchorPoint, position, scale, opacity, and audio levels.
Using effects like Slider Control to manipulate property values in expressions.
Saving expressions for reuse, adding comments, and creating animation presets.
Process of rendering compositions into output files, understanding render settings and output modules.
List of supported video, animation, still-image, and audio file formats for output.
Explanation of HD video formats, resolutions, scan modes, and frame rates.
How After Effects processes layers, masks, effects, and transformations during rendering.
Methods to alter rendering order using Transform effect, adjustment layers, or nesting.
Steps to save a project and render a composition as a movie file.
Using OpenGL for hardware-accelerated previews and rendering.
Methods to produce smaller movie files by nesting, stretching, or cropping.
Using Collect Files to gather project assets for rendering or archiving.
Exporting compositions to SWF files, including options for unsupported features and audio.
Exporting movies to Windows Media or RealMedia formats, including compression settings.
Including descriptive file information (metadata) in exported files using XMP.
Outputting to OMF format for Avid media, understanding codec options and limitations.
Understanding memory requirements for compositions, layers, and project files.
How After Effects uses RAM and disk cache for previews and editing, and how to manage cache.
Configuring memory usage, RAM cache size, and enable disk cache settings.
Tips for improving After Effects performance by preparing the system and optimizing workflow.
System preparation steps like installing updates, quitting unnecessary apps, and checking hardware.
Strategies for improving performance when applying effects, such as blurs and distortions.
Techniques to simplify projects by deleting unused elements, dividing complex projects, and prerendering.
Adjusting display preferences like closing panels, creating regions of interest, and disabling live updates.
Comprehensive list of keyboard shortcuts for After Effects, categorized by function.
Shortcuts for selecting tools in the Tools panel, including temporary switching.
Shortcuts for accessing and modifying settings like project properties and preferences.
Shortcuts for interacting with footage items in the Project panel.
Shortcuts for controlling panel views, magnification, and safe zones.
Shortcuts for navigating the Timeline panel, including moving to keyframes and work areas.
Shortcuts for navigating between Composition, Timeline, Layer, and Footage panels.
Keyboard shortcuts for starting, stopping, and controlling previews.
Shortcuts for making small adjustments to layer position, rotation, and scale.
Shortcuts for renaming, sending, selecting, and modifying layers.
Shortcuts for manipulating text layers, animators, and selectors.
Shortcuts for adding, removing, selecting, and changing interpolation of keyframes.
General| Version | 7.0 |
|---|---|
| Release Date | 2006 |
| License | Commercial |
| Operating System | Mac OS |
| Processor | Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent |
| RAM | 512 MB |
| Hard Disk Space | 2 GB |
| Display | 1024x768 or greater display resolution |
| Graphics Card | OpenGL 1.5 compatible graphics card |
| Supported Formats | AVI |
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