How to Use Adobe After Effects Software

Series Summary

The development of film came alongside the rise of America as a world empire. The technology developed in the late 19th to early 20th century and quickly became a staple of modern culture and mass consumption. Many trace the beginning of film to a moment also considered the advent of the comic strip as we know it: Eadweard Muybridge's famous pictures of a horse's stride, which proved that in fact there is a moment when all four hooves are off the ground. Film making is the process by which a film is made. The different stages of film making include development, pre-production, production, post-production and distribution.

In this free video series, our expert Ryan Vaughn will demonstrate how to use Adobe After Effects software to edit and manipulate your video files. He begins with a quick tour of the controls, then demonstrates how to create a project from scratch or from existing video footage. This program allows you to edit using many different layers. One of the main ways filmmakers use it is to create simple animation effects, such as making a spaceship model appear to move in relation to a background of stars. Ryan will demonstrate how to set up the work space of this program to your liking, then create a complete video compositing project.

Video Transcript

"Welcome to the After Effects basic training series on expert village. I'm Ryan with Make Productions in Austin. I'll be taking you through these tutorials about the basics of after effects. What we are going to do is learn how to manage your work spaces in after effects, create some new work spaces and also going to be organizing project assets in the window here by creating new folders and a file structure. We'll create a template that you can use for all your after effects projects. Then we?re going to get familiar with some of the other windows in after effects including the time line and the time controls. Hopefully, this tutorial series will give you a taste for what after effects is capable of doing. It's an extremely powerful tool. Let's get started."