Adobe After Effects is a digital motion graphics and compositing software published by Adobe Systems. It can be used in film and video post-production. it is often called the Photoshop for Video.Although After Effects can create images of its own, it is generally used to composite material from other sources to make moving graphics (also known as motion graphics). For example, with a picture of a space ship and a picture of a star background, After Effects could be used to place the ship in front of the background and animate it to move across the stars.

 

Adobe After Effects

Develope: Adobe Systems Operating System  Windows and Mac Latest Release version CS3 Website Adobe After Effects

 

Intro

Whats new (Lynda.com)
Standard vs. professional (Lynda.com)
New format support in After Effects 7 (Lynda.com)
Adobe After Effects 7 Interface (creativecow.net)
Tour of the new interface (lynda.com)
Intro (VTC.com)
New Features Overview (VTC.com)
Interface (VTC.com)
Prerequisites (VTC.com)
Alpha Channels (VTC.com)
Interface (VTC.com)
Project Window pt 1 (VTC.com)
Project Window pt 2 (VTC.com)
Comp Window pt 1 (VTC.com)
Comp Window pt 2 (VTC.com)
Timeline Window (VTC.com)
Workspaces (VTC.com)
Preferences pt 1 (VTC.com)
Preferences pt 2 (VTC.com)
Demo 1 (VTC.com)
Demo 2 (VTC.com)
Demo 3 (VTC.com)
HDRI and Bits Explained ( (VTC.com)
Old Open GL and New Open GL (VTC.com)
Default workspace (Lynda.com)
Window and panel management (Lynda.com)
Customizing your workspace (Lynda.com)
Creating and configuring a project (Lynda.com)
Importing assets into a project (Lynda.com)
Premultiplied vs. straight alpha (Lynda.com)
Creating a composition (Lynda.com)

Basics

Motion Tracking in After Effects (digitalmediatraining.com)
Adjusting keyframes (digitaltutors.com)
Copy and Paste Keys (digitaltutors.com)
Working With Keyframes (digitaltutors.com)
Creating New Layers (digitaltutors.com)
Time Graph (digitaltutors.com)
Switches (digitaltutors.com)
Layer Outline (digitaltutors.com)
Audio and Video Switches (digitaltutors.com)
Working with layers (digitaltutors.com)
Creating fast displacements (digitaltutors.com)
Palettes (digitaltutors.com)
Tool box (digitaltutors.com)
Footage window (digitaltutors.com)
Timeline window (digitaltutors.com)
Composition window (digitaltutors.com)
Flowchart window (digitaltutors.com)
Project window (digitaltutors.com)
Setting up a project (digitaltutors.com)
General layout (digitaltutors.com)
Particle Playground (digitaltutors.com)
Creating a Vector-Style Freeze Frame Animation in After Effects (digitalmediatraining.com)
Apply Presets (creativecow.net)
Save Presets (creativecow.net)
Painting essentials in After Effects 7.0 (adobe.com)

Techniques

Blemish Removal (creativecow.net)
New Paint : Clone Source Overlay (creativecow.net)
Build your own Greenscreen (YouTube.com)

Animation

Animation Basics (VTC.com)
Principles of Animation pt 1 (VTC.com)
Principles of Animation pt 2 (VTC.com)
Animation wand Camera - Prepping Photoshop CS2 layer prep for 3-D layers (Lynda.com)
Setting up and animating a camera (Lynda.com)
Animating lights in 3-D (Lynda.com)
Creating a Dagger Animation (pt 1) (Lynda.com)
Animated Backgrounds: Adding an Alpha Matte (digitalmediatraining.com)
Building Multilayered Animations with After Effects Expressions (digitalmediatraining.com)
Animating a Signature (creativecow.net)
Animating a TV Turning on and Off (creativecow.net)
Animating The Camera (creativecow.net)
Lip-Synching for Character Animation (creativecow.net)
Animate position : make realistic bouncing motion (adobe.com)
Create,Manage and Share Animation Presets (italian) (videomakers.net)
Animating a Signature (italian) (videomakers.net)
Animating Text With Music (italian) (videomakers.net)
Animating Shapes (italian) (videomakers.net)
Special FX with Animated Masks (italian) (videomakers.net)
HP Spot FX (italian) (videomakers.net)

Rendering

Multi-Machine Rendering (creativecow.net)
Back to Basics - Type Animators 101 : free yourself of type presets (Level: Advanced) (graymachine.com)
Creating 3D Text (creativecow.net)
Horror Text - Part 1 (creativecow.net)
Horror Text - Part 2 (creativecow.net)
Just a Simple Type Screen : a background using Cell Pattern, Mosaic and Colorama (Level: Easy) (graymachine.com)
Make a Text Stream using Expressions (creativecow.net)
Type FX with the Set Matte Filter (Level: Intermediate) (graymachine.com)

Graph Editor

Graph Editor Demystified (creativecow.net)
Graph editor (adobe.com)

Effects

Creating a blood effect (pt 2) (Lynda.com)
Animating a circled S (pt 3) (Lynda.com)
Creating a foggy background (pt 4) (Lynda.com)
AE Keyframe Boomerang Effect, Part 1 (creativecow.net)
AE Keyframe Boomerang Effect, Part 2 (creativecow.net)
Creating a Film Flash Effect (creativecow.net)
Creating Grunge in After Effects with Track Mattes (Level: Advanced) (graymachine.com)
Creating the 3D Ribbon Effect (creativecow.net)
Text Blur: Per-Character Text Blur effect, a new feature in After Effects 7. (creativecow.net)
Timewarp effect (adobe.com)
Creating a Camera Shake Using Motion Tile and Expressions (Level: Intermediate) (graymachine.com)
Force Motion Blur (creativecow.net)
Vector Blur (creativecow.net)
Make motion more realistic with Motion Blur (adobe.com)

Color

Working with Broadcast Safe Colors (creativecow.net)
Color Finesse (creativecow.net)
Part 1: Basics (creativecow.net)
Part 2: Avoid the Pitfalls (creativecow.net)
Part 3: Text and Time (creativecow.net)

Plugins

Ball Action Plugin and filters associated menu (creativecow.net)
Breaking a Logo into Particles using Particular (graymachine.com)
Creating 3D Particle Orientation in Particular (graymachine.com)

Digital Anarchy

1. 3D Assistants : cylinder creator (Lynda.com)
1. 3D Assistants : null objects and 3d lights (Lynda.com)
1. 3D Assistants : null objects and 3d lights-part 2 (Lynda.com)
Light transmission (Lynda.com)
3D Assistants : 3D Assistants conclusion (Lynda.com)
2. 3D Space Effects : cubic distribution (Lynda.com)
2. 3D Space Effects : matrix creator (Lynda.com)
3. Cylinder Distribution - Pinwheel : cylinder distribution (Lynda.com)
3. Cylinder Distribution - Pinwheel : expressions (Lynda.com)
3. Cylinder Distribution - Pinwheel : expressions part 2 (Lynda.com)
3. Cylinder Distribution - Pinwheel : expressions part 3 (Lynda.com)
4. Primatte Chromakeyer : introduction (Lynda.com)
4. Primatte Chromakeyer : advanced (Lynda.com)
4. Primatte Chromakeyer : transparency (Lynda.com)

Fixes

AE Gotchas 1: Wrong Frame Rate (creativecow.net)
Fixing Scaling Issues–Part One (creativecow.net)
Fixing Scaling Issues–Part Two (creativecow.net)

Examples

Making the moon (pt 5) (Lynda.com)
Creating lightning (pt 6) (Lynda.com)
Putting it all together (pt 7) (Lynda.com)
Creating a Circle Segment Design with Random Numbers (Level: Advanced) (graymachine.com)
Creating a Custom Wave Form - Part 1 (creativecow.net)
Creating a Custom Wave Form - Part 2 (creativecow.net)
Creating a Flock of Birds - Part 1 (creativecow.net)
Creating a Flock of Birds - Part 2 (creativecow.net)
Creating An Old TV Screen (creativecow.net)
Creating an Outline around an Actor (creativecow.net)
Creating and Enhancing Text Wipe On Effects (creativecow.net)
Creating Super Tight Junk Mattes (creativecow.net)
Sky Replacement (creativecow.net)

Working with Other Programs

Creating a Station ID in Maya and After Effects (Level: Advanced) (graymachine.com)
Get Your Adobe Illustrator Files Moving in After Effects (layersmagazine.com)
How modo can make your life easier: Image Synth (creativecow.net)
Integrate Adobe Premiere Pro with After Effects using Dynamic Link (adobe.com)
particleIllusion 3 and AE 7 (creativecow.net)
After Effects 7 and ParticleIllusion 3 (creativecow.net)
Create After Effects comps with Encore DVD : amazing animations for the menus (adobe.com)

CS2 Bridge

Bridge into After Effects and Premier (layersmagazine.com)

Cinema 4D

Escaping Flatland: 3D Lower Third Creation in After Effects and Cinema4D (digitalmediatraining.com)
Animate your text (adobe.com)
Overlay video : Import video from AE to Flash and add drop shadows and inner glows to your alpha channel for more seamless results (adobe.com)
Part 1 (creativecow.net)
After Effects and Flash: Embedding alpha channels (adobe.com)
Exporting Flash Video (FLV)
from After Effects (adobe.com)
Before we begin (pt 1) (Lynda.com)
How After Effects differs from Flash (pt 2) (Lynda.com)
Things that can be exported as vectors (pt 3) (Lynda.com)

Illustrator

pt 1. Preparing the video in After Effects (creativecow.net)
pt 2. Converting Illustrator CS2 (creativecow.net)
pt 3. Compositing your footage in After Effects (creativecow.net)

Photoshop

Turning Photoshop layers into frames in ImageReady (pt 1) (Lynda.com)
Painless tweening in ImageReady (pt 2) (Lynda.com)
Basic layer transfers with style effects (pt 3) (Lynda.com)

CS2 Bridge

Bridge into After Effects and Premier (layersmagazine.com)

Cinema 4D

Escaping Flatland: 3D Lower Third Creation in After Effects and Cinema4D (digitalmediatraining.com)
Animate your text (adobe.com)
Overlay video : Import video from AE to Flash and add drop shadows and inner glows to your alpha channel for more seamless results (adobe.com)
Part 1 (creativecow.net)
After Effects and Flash: Embedding alpha channels (adobe.com)
Exporting Flash Video (FLV)
from After Effects (adobe.com)
Before we begin (pt 1) (Lynda.com)
How After Effects differs from Flash (pt 2) (Lynda.com)
Things that can be exported as vectors (pt 3) (Lynda.com)

Illustrator

pt 1. Preparing the video in After Effects (creativecow.net)
pt 2. Converting Illustrator CS2 (creativecow.net)
pt 3. Compositing your footage in After Effects (creativecow.net)

Photoshop

Turning Photoshop layers into frames in ImageReady (pt 1) (Lynda.com)
Painless tweening in ImageReady (pt 2) (Lynda.com)
Basic layer transfers with style effects (pt 3) (Lynda.com)

Previous Versions of After Effects

After Effects 6.5

Bumpers, Illustrations, Pictures, and Text (digitalmediatraining.com)
Animating 3D Stroke Effects in After Effects 6.5 (digitalmediatraining.com)
3D Compositing in After Effects 6.5 (creativecow.net)
After Effects 101 : The basics of After Effects 6.5 (creativecow.net)

After Effects 6

Interface (Lynda.com)
Text Layers (Lynda.com)
Intro to painting (Lynda.com)
Animation: Transform Parameters and Keyframing (digitalmediatraining.com)
Animating 2D in a 3D Environment in After Effects 6.5 (digitalmediatraining.com)

After Effects 5 and 5.5

Setting Up Your Project (Lynda.com)
Issues with Importing Footage (Lynda.com)
Work Preview Options (Lynda.com)
Layer Basics (Lynda.com)
Introduction To Effects (Lynda.com)
Introduction To 3D (Lynda.com)
Photoshop - layers, modes and masks (Lynda.com)
illustrator - layers (Lynda.com)
illustrator - continuous rasterization (Lynda.com)
illustrator - editing the original file (Lynda.com)
premiere integration (Lynda.com)
3D files with metadata (Lynda.com)
creating and modifying keyframes (Lynda.com)
masking (Lynda.com)
parenting, looping and motion blur (Lynda.com)

After Effects 3.1

(VTC.com)