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10 Tips for Working Faster in After Effects

by Laura Hawk

In this series of After Effects tutorials, we learn 10 time-saving tips to speed up your workflow in After Effects. Software required: After Effects CS6.

What you'll learn

In this series of After Effects tutorials, we learn 10 time-saving tips to speed up your workflow in After Effects. Some of these tips are simple things that you should be doing in all your projects like staying organized in the project panel. Other tips require a little more thought on when to implement them, like Memory and Multiprocessing or using motion blur efficiently. This training is great for watching a few lessons and then jumping back on whatever project you are working on, and trying out the tips. By the end of this tutorial, you will have 10 new ways to work faster in After Effects, and you'll definitely learn some things that you didn't know before about the way these functions play together. Software required: After Effects CS6.

About the author

Laura is a passionate visual effects and motion graphics author at Pluralsight. Ever since her first exposure to After Effects in college, Laura has had an eternal drive to learn more about motion graphics, and teach others what she has discovered. Laura began working at Digital-Tutors (now a Pluralsight company) as a motion graphics artist, creating visually-appealing advertisements and informative art for the site. Throughout her time at Digital-Tutors, Laura contributed greatly to both the ... more

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