A guys this is live with you from school online that can't remember guys I'm here to help you to become
the expert you want to become in Adobe After Effects and create animations and stunning videos later
on.
By the end of this course in this lecture we'll be creating simple animations but we will train on how
to create keyframes how to manipulate keyframes within the timeline and also how to manipulate our layers.
If you downloaded the project file within the folder of course you will find a composition called practice
lets double click on best practice and you will see that we have in simple animation that we want to
create here.
Its pretty simple but we will learn how to manipulate the keyframes and also how to manipulate our lives.
But you can also open a best practice where there is only the text and there is no animation and you
can follow through with me where you can focus on the animation and forget about laying out the text
on the screen.
But I have to start from the beginning.
And I would lay out the text and show you how it's done and we will animate this together.
First of all let's go and Glos all.
Now I will create a new composition not is that my selection here is inside the fold of course.
If I create a new composition as they call it compound for now and its five seconds I say OK if I click
OK it will go inside the fold.
You notice that because my selection was inside now I don't want the composition to be inside the folder
here.
There are couple of choices you can click on it and drag it out at the bottom.
But sometimes the bottom is not seen you have too many things so you can get up there.
Here you are.
And now its out and this is sorted alphabetically of course.
You can choose the sorting by clicking on the name Leslie name it and call it practice.
Let's create a shape.
We click on the rectangle we click and drag.
We can use the spacebar to adjust it again.
That's good.
Adjustment fine.
And also if we click Wii we go to our alliance.
We can align it you notice that its composition and selection here to the composition in the center
or is entirely in the center vertically but we can stretch it that make it a bit bigger.
That's good.
OK.
Now we want to put the text we click on Tex.
Our click here and know is I'm going to copy the text from outside aftereffect just to make it pretty
speedy for you.
I will do for all of them pretty fast.
Copy that next to the Capitol.
So we have our text on the screen and just laid out in any way.
I need to align the stacks.
Let's look at our players.
We have one two three four.
That's fine.
That's OK.
So we want to select all these layers and you know align them left side and align them in the middle
of the rectangle.
First of all let's set this one.
This is the distance.
The last one and this is the distance I want from top.
And this is the distance I want from bottom to select all the layers here or a series of layers.
I can place on the last one or the first one I want select press shift and select the first one pretty
easy.
Let's go back to our A-line and now we are aligning to the selection and then left.
Then I would distribute them vertically.
Here you are that perfectly distributed.
But so now we want to create our animation.
How do we do that.
Now this animation is based on position.
So we need to open up position here.
I our select all the layers even the shape layer and press b foot position you know it is now or the
position has open.
I need to initiate the animation.
Let's see after one second.
I want all these text and the graphic the rectangle to be in this position.
So I would click on the stopwatch not is that for all the layers that have been selected.
It keyframe has been created and we can start now animating.
I'll go back to zero from zero here.
I'll press F to select everything and then select the first X and this text is going to come from outside
on the left side.
I would select the text click on it and keep it clicked then I can move it outside but it's going up
and down with me.
The best way to do it is to press shift and then move.
So first you select your text you click and keep it clicked.
Press shift or move it to the other side by pressing shift you will move straight will not go up and
down.
Click on the next layer press shift and take it on the other side.
Click on the last press shift and take it outside the ceiling any minute now.
Pretty cool let's say rectangle.
Now we want to take it from us.
We wanted to come from up.
I click on it and press shift and move it up.
Now we have a nice animation.
Let's adjust its if you play it on Preview you will notice that it's OK let's make it more interesting.
Now this keyframes here are I put them at one second.
They're taking too long.
I need to move them a bit further in the middle.
For example the rectangle even more good now that are coming faster.
That's pretty nice but I really don't like the way they're coming.
I don't want them to come all together.
I want to option one here create competition to come first create techs come second.
So I need to move it.
I can either move the keyframes that way or move the layer.
For now we are going to move the keyframes.
I'll take the second one and move the keyframes here for example like the last one and move the keyframes.
Now let's look about good.
I need them to be faster.
But now how do I make them faster here.
Because if I select I'm going to select everything I have no way to select the I will select them all
press as an 8 and click on the rightmost keyframe and they mean you not now they are proportionally
getting nearer to each other.
OK.
Now what happened if you run the animation that will be coming much faster.
Still the first layer.
This is the rectangle should come first then the X should come after.
So I need to delay the incoming of the text for that I can move the letters now but I would select all
of them click and drop in Haiti or.
This is quite interesting.
We learned a lot here.
Now let's say you don't like the timing here but you want to do is to wait for this text to position
itself and then let the stacks come in.
Since the timing is OK for us here we can manipulate the layers you are and you play not as much better
another choice.
They say you want the text to come in wait for a few frames.
Then the other text will come the next X will come.
So you can take this one push it there and push it.
So you're not only playing the keyframes now you are manipulating the layers.
Let's preview I demonstrate you lots of options how to create the keyframes for many players how to
move the key frames in the timeline using selections or even individually how to use the key to move
the keyframes proportionally to each other.
Thank you very much.
And in the next lecture we are going to tackle more complicated animation.