After Effects CS5 Tutorial - Basic Keyframing & Motion Graphics

Adobe After Effects CS5 Tutorial

A quick basic tutorial on how to use keyframing to create motion graphics.

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Howto & Style

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• adobe
• after
• effects
• cs5
• tutorial
• basic
• quick
• easy
• keyframing
• motion
• graphics
• animation
• HD
• commentary

[goyface]

Wut da fuck... You sound like one of the characters from Fallout: New Vegas, and you have one of the soundtracks running in the background :P

(Guess what I've been playing way too much recently!)

[TheSyrupCompany]

@goyface I can't stop playing that game too. :)

[liamcahill15]

@TheSyrupCompany what game is it? sorry, I don't recognize it.

[TheSyrupCompany]

@liamcahill15 fallout new vegas

[pedroaido]

hey i have after effects cs4 is it really worth gettinh cs5?

[TheSyrupCompany]

@pedroaido I Never Had CS4, so you should Download the free 30 Day Trial from adobe.com and see if you think it's worth it

[LichKing887]

Nah.... If you guys know step up 3D...

He sounded a lot like more than MOOSE

[GraveyarDisciple]

Thanks for this tutorial is simple and explain lots of points for beginners like myself. 

[MidnightHexKiss]

How would one go about animating drawn butterfly into live video? Please answer soon :)

[zanarkandmusic]

@zTheoryHD hey take a look at what i wrote above to kingamer. That shoild help.

[zanarkandmusic]

@jesperjee so from left to right on each layer, you will see an 'eye' icon, a 'sound' icon, a 'dot' and a 'lock'. between the 'lock' icon and the 'tag' icon there should be a little triangle pointing right. click & it will show 'transform' and 'audio' click triangle next to 'transform' to show options. click the tiny stopwatch next to 'position', & move the timeline arrow right a bit & drag your object (in the view frame [big screen]) to where you want it to appear in the next frame.

[zanarkandmusic]

@kinggamer1235

no problem if you need more help, just inbox me ur question and ill do my best to help.

[kinggamer1235]

@zanarkandmusic Thanks for help IT WORKED YIPEEEEEEEEEEEE

[zanarkandmusic]

@kinggamer1235

Next to File, Edit etc is "Composition", click make movie.

The bottom screen will become the render queue. But, if you try to render now there will be NO SOUND. So where it says output (quite small to the left) click on the default setting "lossless" (its orange).

It will bring up a menu which will allow you to change the output file type - avi, mpeg4 etc... at the bottom, be sure to enable the audio output option by ticking the little box. simple. click render.

[kinggamer1235]

How the hell do i save it as a movie file please help

[jesperjee]

HEY! I have a huge problem in using after effects Cs5 that maybe you can help me with. When I try doing keyframe animation I don´t see the keyframes in the composition window. You know the keyframe boxes with the line in between. I am very new to this so maybe it´s a stupid question but please help if you know what the problem is!! Thanks! Ps- I have a Macbook Pro