Easy to follow Adobe After Effects 4 Tutorials and online training courses. These professionally created videos offer the user an accelerated way to master this application from the comfort of their own desktop. In addition to the Adobe After Effects 4 tutorials we also list over 400 additional titles amounting to over 4000 hours, get unlimited access to all these courses for just $30 per month.

Adobe After Effects 4 Tutorial Try for FREE

Discounted Training Courses

Members of the VTC Online University have unlimited access to this tutorial. At the moment, you are in demo mode and only the first 3 chapters will play. But members have access to EVERY SINGLE TITLE IN OUR RANGE, i.e., over 40,000 tutorials on 400+ titles all with expert tutors. Where else can you get high quality one to one training for just $30.00 per month!

Benefits

:
  1. 01. Unlimited viewing.
  2. 02. Downloadable working files.
  3. 03. Expert instructors.
  4. 04. Use at home / work or both.
  5. 05. Works on PC or Mac.
  6. 06. Telephone Tech support.
  7. 07. Cancel at any time.
  8. 08. 300+ courses for 1 low fee.
  9. 09. New titles added regularly.
  10. 10. 100% Guaranteed

Should you need any help, just call - contact details at the bottom of the page.

Click to Join Now
Click here to Join

Unlimited Professional Training on over 400+ applications and programming languages for only $30.
The fastest and most cost effective way to learn! Forget boring books! No need for expensive classroom training - just easy to follow training videos that play right from your own computer. Login from home or office - the choice is yours. All courses are taught by world leading experts, unlimited access, on over 400 different subjects.
Please Note:
You are in Demo mode which only allows access to the first 3 chapters of this Adobe After Effects 4 training course and all the other titles listed on this site, this is to help you evaluate the quality of the training before joining. If you decide to join, you will instantly have totally UNLIMITED ACCESS to over 400 professionally created video tutorials, you will be able to access the content from any location and no restrictions are placed on the amount of content you can watch, you can also cancel at any time you wish. Over 4000 hours of training for just $30.00.

Topics covered on this course include:
Tutorials introduction
  • What's new in AfterEffects 4
    The basics
    Windows and palettes
    • Introduction - project, composition and time layout window settings
    • Project window
    • Importing into the project window, part I
    • Importing into the project window, part II
    • Importing into the project window, part III
    • Organizing your project window
    • Project window in-depth, part I
    • Project window in-depth, part II
    • Creating compositions within project window
    • Composition window
    • Title and action safe zones
    • Current time indicator examined
    • Take snapshot, show last snapshot and channel displays
    • Time layout window
    • Mock composition
    • Current time display
    • Audio/video features panel
    • Layer outline
    • Switches panel
    • Quality adjustment column and hiding layers
    • Time graph
    • Composition family button
    • Optional panels
    • Viewing area markers
    • Work area markers
    • Current time marker
    • Time ruler and window menu
    • Composition time marker
    • Toolbox window
    • Time control palette
    Importing
    • Importing introduction
    • Importing files continued
    • Importing files continued
    • Importing Photoshop sequence
    • Importing Photoshop layers
    • Interpreting footage options
    • Interpreting footage continued
    • Illustrator; EPS files; effects
    • Some artistic play
    Working with layers
    • Introduction
    • Importing material
    • Composition window
    • Scaling, sizing and positioning layers
    • Basic animation
    • Introduction to layers and keyframes
    • Adjusting keyframes and previewing motion
    • Scaling and previewing
    • Adjusting anchor path
    • Tweaking motion paths
    • Adjusting motion
    • Adjustment layer
    • Brightness and sharpness
    • Internal titling/text
    • Working with an Illustrator file
    • Adding a solid color layer
    Nesting of compositions and layer masking
    • Introduction
    • Importing files
    • Keying, scaling, and effects with layers
    • Positioning layers, part I
    • Positioning layers, part II
    • Beveling, alphas, and scaling
    • Time layout
    • Motion
    • Motion sketching
    • Motion with trails
    • Keyframes and nesting compositions
    • Alpha channel
    • Time layout
    • Composition nesting
    • Masking
    • Multiple masks per layer
    • Positioning product
    • Applying motion
    • Layer mask
    • Keyframes
    Animation
    • Introduction
    • Examining material
    • Importing material and loading
    • Isolating layers, blur and drop shadow
    • Color and beveling alpha channel tricks
    • Copying/pasting keyframes, part I
    • Copying/pasting keyframes, part II
    • Stylize filter
    • Animating layers
    • Rotation
    • Playing material back
    • Rendering with audio
    • Video effects introduction
    • Work area setup
    • Importing and placing material
    • Using layers and creating effects
    • Text effects and cropping
    • Effect controls palette
    • Copying and pasting keyframes
    • Visual filter and drop shadow
    • Positioning text for animation
    • Applying animation; time layout window layers
    • Previewing animation and transitions
    • Rendering overview; scaling and tweaking layers
    • Transition placement
    • Applying transition effects
    • Wiping in and wiping out
    • Tweaking motion paths
    • Scaling
    • More motion paths
    • Applying 3D to layers
    • Drop shadow techniques
    Working with audio
    • Bass, treble and delay
    • Synching video with audio
    • Preparing audio for output
    Rendering
    • Introduction to rendering
    • Rendering checklist before rendering
    • Checklist continued
    • Checking resolution and effects settings
    • Object background vs. alpha channel background.
    • Rendering queue examined
    • Examining render settings
    • Render output module settings
    • Codec compression options
    • Audio adjustment; examining rendering process
    • Render completion
    • Movie playback of movie

    Adobe After Effects 4 Course Details

    Adobe After Effects 4 Training Course
    Author: Jason Anderson
    All Training Videos by author
    Duration: 13 Hours
    No. of movies 145
    Later - Releated Titles
    Beginners After Effects CS3 Training Videos

    Benefits:
    Join the VTC Online University and you will have UNLIMITED access to this tutorial and all the others in the entire library for just US $30 a month. That's over 4000 hours worth of high quality training for one low price of less than $1 a day. Click here to Join

    Click to Join Now

    Own this Training Course on CD

    cd If you would like to own this Adobe After Effects training title on CD, you may purchase it from our online store, because we don't have to use the same level of compression on the CDs as we do with the online, the audio and video playback is of a higher quality. For a single low payment you can buy this
    Adobe After Effects tutorial on CD.

    Free Certification - Prove your Skills

    certificate After you have completed a tutorial, a Certificate of Completion can be obtained to verify that you have taken a particular course. All certificates are FREE, but the training course must be completed before a certificate can be issued.

    Customers Comments

    We have been customers of Apex Web Media for over 3 years and would have no hesitation in recommending their professional and efficient services to any company looking for professional, affordable training.
    S.J Holt
    Suwanee Georgia

    Easy to Use QuickTime Format

    QuickTime 9 In order to view the training, you must have the latest version of QuickTime installed. Please note that the online movies have been compressed for quicker downloads, CDs and DVDs have far higher audio and video quality.