Good afternoon, ladies and gentleman. As specialized courses, I had learned several software, such as AI--Adobe Illustrator; Ps-- Photoshop ; Fl--Flash; AE--After effects and Dw--Dream weaver and so on. In the next seven minutes, I am going to give you a general idea of After effects, and then I will analyze the methods of applying AE to your DIY videos and home videos.
2. What is After Effects ?
So, first of all, what is After Effects? To be defined, it is a digital motion graphics, used in the post-production process of filmmaking and television production. It main uses are visual effects compositing and finishing, which include image adjustment and color correction and so on. AE can also be used as a media transcoder.
Is it difficult to learn how to use AE?
It is not as difficult as it looks. Although consists of several panels in the main interface, only three of them are the most commonly used panels. There are the Project panel, the Composition panel and the Timeline panel. The Project panel acts as a bin to import video, audio,images and footage items. These items in the Project panel are used in the Time panel, where layer order and timing can be adjusted. The items visible at the current time maker are displayed in the Composition panel.
3. How to apply AE to home videos?
Now, before turning to the next point, let’s watch two videos.
Next we come to “How do we apply After Effects to the videos that were made by ourselves?” In another words, how do we use AE to edit our videos? There are three ways to use After Effects. Firstly, people can add some words into the video, like date, title, aside. You can also use animations, photos and audios to make you video more likely to be a short film. Secondly, you can do change something in the video, the color or the format, even the background.
4. Conclusion
To summarise, I’ll run through my two points.In the first point, After Effects is a video editing software. The