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# Anya After Effects :D
## What can you do in After Effects?
* Use it to create motion graphics and visual effects on already produced videos
* Import photos and other forms of physical media into animations to generate titles and motion graphics
* Add VFX like 3D motion graphics. post-production lighting effects, modern collages etc.
* Motion titles and text
* Use in collaboration with Premiere Pro
## Goals
- Edit a short clip in Premiere Pro and practice editing/synchronizing audio
- Use AfterEffects to add an animated title or component
- Change the lighting in post production
- Create a collage

## Helpful Tutorials
* [Top 30 Best Effects in After Effects](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrj6dgPF_aU): This is a useful tutorial for narrowing down which effects in the large repository to focus on.
* Gradient Ramp: Create a bacj=kground
* Curves/Levels: Changing color channels
* Stroke: Animate any path you create with the pen tool (good for animating titles)
* Gaussian/Fast Blur: Blur images quickly
* Remove grain
* CC Particle World: Animate particles to do anything you want
* Warp stabilizer: Can stabilize images
* 3D camera tracker: Makes text attach to one object while moving
* Keylight
## Inspiration
## Project 1: Animating the Shrek Dragon!
Remove.bg: Amazing site for removing the backgrounds from images! I used this to create a Dragon sticker that could fly through my mp4
Next, use terminal (gif+ space+ drag file and press enter) to turn the mp4 into a gif

## Project 2: Animating titles?
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