After Effects tutorials
Learn After Effects basics, or upgrade your existing skills with our bite-size tutorials recorded by one of our own Adobe certified After Effects instructors designed to inspire.
Presented by one of our instructors from the Certitec training team, you'll have the opportunity to access a wide range of useful video tutorials, that will help you on your animations and special effects journey.
How can I link an After Effects effect into Premiere Pro?
We show how you can save an After Effects project and then directly link onto the Premiere Pro timeline. Any updates to…
How can I add realistic text into a scene?
Adding text into existing footage can be quite tricky since unless performed professionally, the effect will look fake.…
How do I place a video clip into a specific area?
We demonstrate how two separate elements (a picture and a video clip) and be incorporated together to create video…
How can I correct some shaky camera footage?
When using a hand-held camera and taking footage - it can be difficult to keep the video completely still. Our video…
How can I create a freeze frame effect?
There can be many times when you wish to incorporate a freeze-frame effect to promote a focus effect in your…
What’s the best way to add sound?
Adding a new audio track to a project is a common requirement. We will show the most effective way to import and apply…
What’s the best way to add effects to text?
After Effects provides all the functions to create both simple and block-buster effects for animations. We show how to…
How can I change the speed of objects?
We show how you can change the animation speeds of three cars which initially seemed unrealistic. The ease-in and…
How do I add simple text in an animation?
An After Effects project can really benefit from informational and/or instructional text. We show how to add text to…
How do I create a simple After Effects composition?
You can add many effects to a composition in After Effects by dragging to the timeline. These default effects include…
What are the different workspace panels?
Its important to understand the basics of After Effects before undertaking any project. We show how to create a new…
How do I start building an After Effects project?
Starting any After Effects project means you will be importing assets (videos, sounds, images etc) etc. You will…
How can I animate type and also scale?
Adding animations such as transparency fade-in and scaling of text can be easily achieved with key frames in After…
How do I animate text in After Effects?
Once you have added text to the timeline, it appears in the animations panel. The opacity setting can be added so the…
How can I work with layers and animations on the timeline?
Each layer has anchor point, position, scale, rotation and opacity transformations available. If the scale option is…
How can I animate scaling in After Effects?
After Effects can easily move and scale elements on the timeline by adding a keyframe command. This contains both the…
How can I animate After Effects layers?
You can animate any image or media clip by dragging it from the project panel down onto the timeline. From here you can…
How can I add different animation layers?
After Effects supports multiple layers and this makes animating from one layer to another easy. Content on a layer can…
How do I create a composition for animation?
You can create a new composition based on your own settings - as opposed to following imported media settings. The…
How can I setup After Effects correctly?
When starting a new After Effects project its important to understand how to both save your project and also import…