50 After Effects Tips, Tricks & Secrets for Beginners

In this super quick and simple tutorial, I'm sharing some of my favorite After Effect tips and tricks that I wish I had known when I first started using it. Some seem really obvious but weren't intuitive to me when I was a beginner. This tutorial is suitable for beginner-intermediate users. Please...

Beginner - 12 min - Design & Creative Software - Ben Marriott

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What you'll need

• Laptop stand: Screen at eye level for long study sessions.
• Noise-cancelling headphones: Focus through long video lessons.
• Second monitor: Video on one screen, practice on the other.
• Wireless keyboard and mouse: Comfortable for hours of typing.

Books

1. The Animator's Survival Kit by Richard Williams - View on Amazon
2. Adobe After Effects Classroom in a Book by Lisa Fridsma - View on Amazon
3. The Illusion of Life by Frank Thomas Bullen - View on Amazon

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