So Hello, everybody, and this is lesson for beginners. Definitely for those who don't understand at all, what After Effects means, first of all, I work with CSS, you should know that Adobe is just cover and all the basic instruments will follow you from version to version. Yes, of course they have the last one. But you know, I haven't found the Yeah, that's good button. So again, back to my favorite bomb see as six. So don't worry about versions, plugins and scripts.

If you will need something additional girl lessons, I will definitely say to you. And for those who has already have these scripts and plugins, now it's a great chance to see about its natural beauty. All the activity in the program takes place in the composition. So to start with, we should create a new one. So we go to the top composition and create new composition. First of all one can see in dialog window Composition Settings.

Here we can see a composition name. can emit an output one. Behind this one again see the top it is called preset. Here we can see some kind of random presets that are given by default. And the most popular one in our country nowadays is called HDTV 10 at 25. And this is the first ad that has to do with 25 frames per second.

And in 19% of cases, I choose the settings for my competition. So the next point that we should know about or our Composition Settings, is the duration. So here we put the duration of our future video or a part of our future video. We'll work mostly in these digits. We can see oh five, these are seconds for their minutes. and here we can put three hours as a maximum.

But you know, I haven't met a person in the world who creates a free hours composition but Now, I've met one, but we will work with seconds. So five seconds and the background color we believe as black. Okay, cool, we have made our composition. And the first of all, we can see the black window, it is our preview. Here we'll take those all the actions, we can have a look to our animation to our composition, we can add or delete different elements. So, is a preview of our animation.

On the left we can see the project we know and our composition which is named one here we should download all the elements we need to work in the project either as a video or where. So anyway, moreover, when creating a new compositions, they will appear in this way. What is more, we can see that the composition is opened in this place. It is our workspace. So here we will mount our layers, maybe pre compositions or some video segments. And on the right of this base, we will control the animation.

So the timeline is situated here to animate something we should create something and then God After Effects has all you need to create any graphics. First part, of course, will be devoted to flat design. So most people will use the elements to create shape layers to create shape. We should go to this better, where the basic tools for creating and editing elements are situated. So press this icon and you see that there are some shape tools by default. The second is looking like a square.

But we can make by ourselves with the help of bountiful wiggly Good. Then put the dots so we can draw any format you like. And now we're going to discuss biometric objects. You click the icon Choose the ellipse to then go to the preview and draw around. And you can notice that we can scale it. And with the help of press Shift, we can do it proportionally.

Okay, we have graded around. And now I will tell you how to change the color of the object. Here we can see the icon, so we can change the color. And moreover, you can see the stroke color again. Now it is up. And to put on, I go to the stroke options, and putting on this joke with is 62 pixels and we can also change it and of course we can change the color of stroke.

So to begin with, it's enough and now you can see that the shape layer one is created on the time line. So let's speak a little bit about it. And after that, turn to The animation. First of all, if I clip this shape there one, you will see that in a little cross appear this cross is an entry point of layer and make a change the rotation, you can see that our object will turn around the point, the layer has its own entry point, and the shape has its own, and I want to match the points. So I will grab this and move to the center of our round. And to change the position of our entry point in a proper way.

There is an icon like a cool cannon, so click it. And now we can wrap our cross and move anywhere with the help of pressed Ctrl or Command. The cross will add here, two main points of our object. So let's leave it in the central. Great, so we've matched the anchor points. And now let's have a look to the main features With the reveals to us two features contents on the poor shape layers, and transform for all objects, photos, videos, whatever.

And now we're going to talk about these type transform. So let's click on it, and you'll see that the main transformations are situated here. So entry point, it is a kind of displacement by extending Greek and now I'm changing the x coordinate. And of course, we can change both of them. So and expanding them position, it's clear, we can change the position of the object including the entry point, then scale, how big or small the object will be rotation. It's a turn around the object, a positive capacity of the object in percents.

Everything is particularly and the most often We use this for features in animation and bear tension that only in scale feature there is a look. And if we turn it off, so it will be an unproportional scale. So let's leave it back and put 100%. So okay, what else we can pay attention. For example, here the object is displayed like name, and we can change it, click on it, and press Enter. And I'll name it one.

And here on the timeline, our object is displayed like a blue line, we can also change the color, press on this square and choose the color the square and the line will be colored identical and the basic markers of the object will be colored accordingly. And that's all that we can say about preparation, the object before animation and so and less than him add something. What do you see the clock icon on the left of our features. If we click on it, we will see the ramp. This is the key. For example, we can move this slider for a second, then change the position.

And I'll have a look at this is animation. Now you're able to animate No, fly and brick. And now let's concentrate on these keys. These keys are called linear keyframe. It means that the speed of animation between starting and ending points is equal. The position has additional line that shows us the movement of the animated object After Effects helps us by itself.

This mechanism of moment the object is called a museum curve here we can see such a dots or sliders if we pull them. So we can change the movement of the our object, and there are no additional keys on the timeline. And now we can play the animation, we can just press Enter. And if you would like to preview the animation without having lines and markers, just press zero. So there are other ways of editing our animation, making linear keyframes and changing the curve of movement. So what problems we can face well, so let me undo.

Okay. And, for example, we put the key and we want our object to go somewhere there after half of the second. So if we move the object here, one can see that the movement isn't enough. straight line, it's curve. And this is all about mechanism of does a curve. And after effects do it by default, for clarity, I will move the object somewhere there.

And yeah, just have a look. It's another straight lines. It is more a semicircle in other two straight directions, we can change the station and can use the pan tool. So click and find their convert vertex to so choose this tool. And then by clicking on the main dots, or the main vertexes, we can change them. And now our animation became linear.

So let me delete all the keys. We can do it by clicking again on the clock icon. Here I can see that all the kids disappeared and the animation is superior to and now and try to animate something by using in other kinds of case. So again, good position, slide for one second, and grab and move our object. So what can we do more? Click the last key by the right mouse button.

Within the context menu, choose keyframe assistant and find their three main tabs of keys. Easy is in and is it up. Let me choose just easy. So we can do it by pressing f9 and look. Okay, looks like a sandblaster sent clock, the movement of animation has changed. It is not a linear, the animation has slow movement closer to the starting and ending points.

But can you use the graph editor to understand it better? click there, I can click The position and here we can see the graph of speed of our object. It is pretty clear. In this point the object has its maximum speed, and the speed decreases to the full stop of the object. Also, we can change this bit of our object by changing the graph. By changing the speed of the object, we can make our animation more attractive.

In order to control the view of our nation, for example, if don't need all the five seconds of animation just to work with one second, we can fix the working part. Here you can see the brackets they will help us to do it. And now I can see if I press the play or enter, the duration will be limited. Okay, now let's return to our end. I will close the graph for a moment and return to our case, if it would is is to this chart in Poland and open the graph again, we will see that we can control the speed of objects movement, slow starting. In this point, its maximum speed and slow stopping.

So with the help of these keys, we can create more complex animation, close all the graphs, select the keys, and with the help of pressed control, I can make them linear again. So let's have a look at the other types of skis. downgrade the funding animation and I think it will be the end of our introduction course click the right mouse button and the last position key then different assistant and choose their easy in key. I use this kind of key pretty often. I think that it's mastered one And if we open the graph and see on it, we will see that it's pretty the same like in is is the differences are in interpolation kind of critical word. But if you would like to know more about it you can go to the side of.com click Help and find there the article throughout interpolation of keyframes in After Effects but as for me the story of the film Interstellar is is and this article really I have delivered for seven years and during the motion design without any kind of this knowledge adopts have Maxi dreams about deep knowledge of the problem really challenging but then that nowadays there are a lot of video tutorial courses before people read the books about it and but I think they just run land, okay.

For example, I'm going to make a new position of our object. We see that after the second key last key has a linear type by default, if the second key has that is type. So the final key will have the same type is it is but it's just the story about the comfortable way of using this case. For example, it happens the easy out and pull there is in so it's a comfortable to see the starting and the ending of any motion. Okay, I think that this information is enough to start. As I have promised, by the end of our lesson, we create something funny and will hype a little bit.

So I downloaded the image of spinner and added it into the project and I created a component With the names spinner, now we can take our PNG file and add it to the preview. So first let's match the anchor point with the center of the picture. As I've just said that every file has its features and our panga file has its feature transformed to open it, then bind rotation put the keyframe then roll it for three seconds and change the value for example four times he'll put out key and there is in cool, who is said five bucks and needless to say that the duration of the composition can be pre hours so we can create free hours of Rule is been around. No one can do it in real life. Yeah. So with the help of After Effects, we became the coolest guys ever.

So it's the end of our introduction lesson.