I'd never touched After Effects until today, so everything I was doing was really brand new, but there are a lot of similarities to photoshop and illustrator, which I can use fairly efficiently, I think it's just gaining an understanding of how the different elements work together that I need to practice.
My notes from the session:
- Composition -> new composition (Not file-> new)
- For this project use - HDTV 1080 25 (1080 definition, 25 frames per second)
- Duration can change later
- Choose colour background
- To create shapes in AE- Layer -> New -> solid (like illustrator for solid shapes- shortcuts)
- Can drag red bar to shorten/ lengthen time it is shown
- All just values- keyframes in that specific time
- Drop down (under tag) -> Transform -> press stopwatch for desired movement -> drag blue line to desired place -> drag and drop shape -> Can then alter line like on illustrator handles (Pen tool)
- Same with scale and rotation etc. (For rotation drag to right/left, or enter numbers)
Keynotes denote change- where it is in that moment
- Can use spacebar to play
- Under preview- have info tab open -> if in red, mac is struggling, it won't be playing in real time- change 'half' to 'auto' (next to 3 coloured dots)
- In order to make all shapes move together, copy and paste plain shape (No keyframes) -> Shift and change all paths together
- Use workbar (greyed out with blue ends) to focus/loop
Shortcuts:
P - position
A - anchor (Or can press and hold Y)
R- rotation
S- scale
T - opacity
U - reveal all animated properties -> hot twice for ALL changes
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