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After Effects for Video Editors

Learn After Effects at your own pace

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Learn On Your Own Schedule

Level up your skills on your own timeline. All course materials are available to you 24/7.

6 hours

Learn After Effects at your own pace with more than 6 hours of video training.

Beginner

This is a beginners' course, ideal for those new to the subject with little to no prior experience.

Course Overview

Get comfortable using After Effects for a video editor’s everyday needs in this beginner course from Jake Bartlett. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to create a stylish animated graphics package, remove unwanted elements from footage and track graphics into an existing shot.

You Get:

6+ hours of video training

Downloadable project files to follow along

Unlimited personalized critique on your work

Access to our 24/7 online community

Course syllabus.

Learn the After Effects Interface

Join Jake for a personal tour of After Effects, tailored to the features and skills a working editor needs most. Learn the basics of importing images and video, and how to create elements from scratch directly in AE.

Move Beyond Templates

Design and animate a stylish lower third and full-screen title graphic by creating keyframes, adjusting them to create snappy movements, and learning essential tricks to add appealing visual details.

By The Numbers

After Effects is great for visualizing data - like you’re probably already being asked to do! Work smarter (not harder) by leveraging tools like Parenting and Essential Properties to create complexity without breaking a sweat.

Get Yourself On Track

Tracking graphics directly into footage is a powerful technique, and probably easier than you think! Spice up the shot with stylish transition effects and add a dynamic speed ramp with Time Remapping.

The Fix Is In

Utilize AI-powered features to add that final polish. Easily remove unwanted objects from footage using Content-Aware Fill and tuck graphics behind foreground elements with the Roto Brush.

Put It All Together

Step up that workflow by learning a variety of approaches to exporting your animations or importing them directly into Premiere Pro. Stay flexible, adaptive, and ready for whatever your project demands!

Meet your instructor.

Jake Bartlett

Digital Creator & Educator

Jake Bartlett is a motion designer and online instructor based in Denver Colorado. After working at a production company in Los Angeles for nearly five years he decided to quit his day job to pursue the freelancer’s life, teaching animation online. His creativity runs on coffee, lego bricks and “Weird Al” Yankovic. Throughout his career he’s had the opportunity to work for clients like Coca-Cola, Twitter, Skype, Evernote, HGTV, NatGeo Wild and Norah Jones.

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