Learn After Effects fast! Crash Course for Beginners Tutorial

If you're looking to learn After Effects fast, you've come to the right place with this beginners tutorial in After Effects for 2021! In this crash course for beginners I'll cover the interface, importing assets, animating in After Effects, using easy ease, various useful hot keys, most commonly used techniques such as masking and track mattes, applying and changing presets, using and editing effects and the usefulness of nested comps.

This After Effects for beginners tutorial will walk you through the step by step crash course of importing and the settings that should be used, to animating and creating motion graphics and using various effects and techniques to get a good looking motion graphics or animation clip. By the end of this beginner after effects tutorial, you'll be familiar enough with After Effects to create a professional looking animation.

0:00 - Intro
0:43 - Setting your composition
2:30 - Interface
4:36 - Importing
8:45 - Precompositions /Nested Compositions explanation
10:01 - Animating in After Effects - keyframes, paths, easy ease, hot keys
18:49 - Creating Text
20:47 - Mask and text animation presets
23:25 - Track mattes
27:13 - Precomps other uses
29:00 - Effects
30:23 - Rendering

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[angibaker]

Finally! I am starting to get After Effects just by watching this one video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[BenjaminBS]

Thank you RobynO, I was losing hope that I could not handle it. After many such videos, that is....Yours is exceptional and I started to panic less. After your video, I had the confidence to begin and thanks to yet another video, bulding contextually upon yours, I could get my daughter's birthday slide ready.

[audreyn.]

Well, months ago I said I don't study animation. That was until I got my internship and future boss said "work on AE for the summer". AIGHT, LET'S DO THIS (leerooooy...)  
So cool you did this video!

[stevenshaneyfelt]

i'm sold just from the first 5 seconds well done thank you very much

[DavidMcCallum-rvqj]

Thanks Robyn for doing a great job covering most common techniques in your After Effects tutorial!! Plus, you having a calming voice and you don't speak too fast like some tutorials I've recently viewed. Thank you very much!!

[danenielsen]

Knew I was in the right place after you nailed my exact situation in the first sentence... eesh. Thanks!

[komiuziya]

Did you lie about knowing how to use After Effects when in reality, you actually don't?
That was the realest thing I've heard..

[eduardo_leao]

Your video in 9:13s teached me more than a course I'm current on, and just on that thing on precomps and artworks! I mean, this is awesome! Thank you very, very much!

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Dear tutor , I love the tutorial videos you made .Thank you for your teaching.

[QuentinBSmith]

BEST VIDEO IVE EVER WATCHED!! Thank you Robyn, you are the funniest most helpful YouTuber ever

[WordTravels]

You are my new hero! Am learning AE for my YouTube and other Word Travels Book Club channels. Love your engaging delivery!

[jasminekenner]

Lol I love the call out on anxiety and the humor. you

[dennisprice]

This is great, and I'd love to show this to my middle schoolers as way to introduce AE and motion graphics in an introductory multi-media course, except that I can't because of language restrictions. I'm no prude, and mild cursing is definitely not offensive to me personally, but it's not my call when it comes to school. So, I'm going to absorb as much as I can from you about how to demo AE in an easily understood manner and use that knowledge to present it to my students. You're awesome!

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[Adventureforever]

Thanks for that. Super fun and informative.

[macca]

I like this video also because you are very good looking

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[brandonleerajkumar]

Great video. Very informative. Thanks Robyn. Do you do a lot of character animation in After Effects?

[randomview]

Thank You RobynO
I loveyour teaching, you made it look so easy, simple and understadable.