After Effects CC Animating with Music
After Effects CC is an industry leading motion graphics application. In this course, you'll learn how to incorporate music into any video project using visual effects, motion graphics, animated text, and basic audio reaction effects. Software required: After Effects CC.
What you'll learn
Music often goes overlooked by animators, but the truth is music can make or break a video. When you learn to effectively animate to music, your videos will be more captivating, more shareable, and more engaging for viewers. In this course, After Effects CC Animating with Music, you'll learn step by step how to animate to the beat of music to captivate your audience and drive home key points. First, you'll discover how to choose the best music for your video. Next, you'll explore how to edit the music to better tell a story. Finally, you'll learn how to animate text and shapes to the beat of music, and create visual effects using audio reaction spectrums. By the end this course, you’ll know how to efficiently animate a video with music from start to finish, how to edit more intentionally, and learn tips and tricks to to keep your audience engaged. Software required: After Effects CC.
Table of contents
- Setting up a New Project and Importing Audio 2m
- Project Walkthrough and Aligning the Start Points of Text Layers with Music 4m
- Adding Transform Animations to Text Layers 2m
- Animating to Music with the Scale Option and Stylizing Position Adjustments 4m
- Syncing a Rotation Adjustment to Music and Recap 4m
- Fine Tuning Text with Easy Ease and Motion Blur 5m
- Controlling Multiple Layers with a Null Object Layer 4m
- Snapping Text out to the Beat of Music and Recap 1m
- Using Masks and Track Mattes to Move Text with Music 6m
- Create a Text Cutout with an Alpha Inverted Mask 2m
- Animating Text to Music by Applying a Moving Mask 3m
- Animating out Text with Music 2m
- Syncing Text to Music by Applying Fade up and Drop in Presets 6m
- Manually Animating Text to Music 3m
- Manually Adjusting Scale to Sync Text to Music 5m
- Working with Multiple Animators and Module Recap 6m
- Introduction and Getting Started with Shape Bursts 4m
- Using the Repeater Effect to Create and Customize Shapes 6m
- Adding a Circle Burst in Sync with Music 5m
- Revealing Shapes with Radial Wipe and Transform Properties 3m
- Offsetting Shape Animations to Perfect Timing with Music 4m
- Create Shapes from Text Layer for Unique Animations 5m
- Use Shapes with Track Mattes to Build Custom Reveals 2m
