This course, designed to thoroughly initiate and inspire beginners, covers the basics of Adobe After Effects. Instructor Mark Christiansen introduces you to the core terminology of After Effects and of film, video, and motion design. Then Mark moves on to explore the After Effects interface and the fundamentals of working in After Effects: building compositions, working with layers, animating, adding effects, designing in 3D, and rendering. Mark employs these techniques while taking you through a sample project, demonstrating how everything comes together in an actual workflow. He shows you how to use automated tools to integrate text and video, import a Premiere Pro sequence, customize and add motion to text, match a moving camera, distort a layer, animate an Illustrator logo, and add dimension to a design.