Learn After Effects 2021: Beginners Tutorial

Welcome to the new Beginners Masterclass for After Effects 2021 by our channel’s incredible VFX teacher Herman Huang, aka Coffeelicker. In this hour‑long tutorial, we’ll learn After Effects from scratch by working through a complete project, covering everything from creating a new project and importing assets to using layers, keyframes, masks, and 3D layers, as well as blending modes, glow, motion blur, and exporting. The video is organized into chapters: Josh’s Intro at 00:00, Herman’s Intro at 00:07, What is After Effects? at 00:24, What Will You Learn? at 01:03, Creating a New Project at 01:44, Project Panel & Importing at 02:17, New Composition at 03:24, Timeline at 05:32, Layers at 00:05:56, Trimming The Work Area at 00:09:46, Preview Window at 00:10:58, Transform at 00:15:08, Keyframes at 00:18:01, Easy Ease at 00:20:09, Main Toolbar at 00:22:15, Shapes at 00:27:20, Align at 00:30:27, Text at 00:31:53, Saving Project at 00:34:16, Creating Movement at 00:35:12, Ram Cache at 00:37:04, Parenting at 00:38:11, Precompose at 00:39:30, Masking at 00:40:47, Tracking Motion at 00:43:54, 3D Layers at 00:52:17, Blending Modes at 00:56:40, Glow at 00:58:48, Motion Blur at 01:00:30, Adding Assets at 01:02:15, Exporting at 01:11:06, and Final Thoughts at 01:14:29.