Learn How to Use After Effects CC 2017 Tutorial for Beginners

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In this tutorial I'll show you the basics needed to start compositing inside of Adobe After Effects CC 2017. This is one of the best compositing softwares and one of the more popular ones on the market. Having a basic understanding of how to use this program is great for any editor and a good kickstart to anyone that wants to learn visual effects.

Some important keyboard shortcuts mentioned are:

A - Anchor Point
P - Position
R - Rotation
S - Scale
T - Opacity

V - For your selection tool
W- Rotation Tool
H - Hand tool to move things around
P - Pen Tool

Spacebar - Use to render out a composition so you can see your effects play out.

Once you've learned the basics of After Effects CC 2017 and you feel like you're ready to dive into some more advanced techniques check out our AE tutorials on our YouTube channel. For some of our favorite watch these:

• For this tutorial, I use Adobe After Effects CC 2017. No plugins are required.

Video tutorial by Max Bard @magicbard

KEYS TO SUCCESS:

• Practice all your keyboard shortcuts as much as possible.
• Apply different effects & presets. Play around with effects to get to know what they are capable of.
• Play around with shape layers and masks.

Please leave a like if this helped you and if you have any questions or want to learn a certain effect please let me know in the comments section and I'll get to it to you ASAP.

[stellaroya]

OMG OMGOMG! I swear you are one lifesaver! The step in which you said u should click window> workspace> standard freakin’ saved my life! TYSM !

[ChristinaNicci]

Thank you so much for this video! I've been struggling with learning after effects and this helped a lot!

[martinmcglone]

best introduction to AE on youtube, thank you very much

[morloc]

Super helpful! I'v been using AE for some time, but you can never know too much! Hello from Bucharest!

[shikasketchbook]

Your video helps a lot for absolute beginners like me, thank you

[thiagolopesganso]

I'm just get starting to learn how to use After Effects and your video showed me how to do so! Thanks Bro!

[complainergamer]

As usual, keep up the great work. Tutorials are easy to follow, not rushed and no annoying music in the background either. Oh, and thanks for not having the typical 10min Into. lol. Cheers bud!

[dulceramirez]

What about a whole series of this? 😍 I really liked the way you explained every detail and I wish we can keep having this type of video tutorials for begginers. Thank you for the work! 😊

[mikeburke]

Very good instructor. Very simple learning. perfect for novice like muah...

[giftzulu]

thanks very much for this tutorial very helpfull

[gabrielcutino]

Excellent. And you make it very easy to follow. Thanks

[micahinmotion]

TY for the tutorial @magicbard I got into editing about six months ago and I really enjoy it. AE is a bit more complicated and your tutorial really helped in understanding the interface.

[GibsEdits]

Yo man this was very useful, since I already use premiere it was pretty easy to pick up after watching this and one other video, thank you :)

[zoisreal]

Excellent work my friend. Very direct and to the point!

[ATLJumpers]

wow - very helpful refresher! Will definitely watch more. THX!

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Such an awesome kick-starter vid! Thanks

[Nellychanelle]

Good Tutorial Thank  You. I did run into a minor issue. When I attempted to Export my 4k footage straight out of AE  my final video would be in the centered....would not fill the space. However, I export through media encoder and everything went through just fine. I still can't help but to wonder what I did wrong ? I went back to modify the Composite settings and adjusted it to 4k size still no luck. Any tips for the future?

[jpl]

Great tutorial, I've learnt alot! Thanks

[pehnutbota]

its really bothering me when i couldn't even found the default but instead essential on the top of the bar

[iAmMadeOfSoup]

This needs more views unlike the one with the annoying, hardly understandable accent,