Adobe After Effects Flashcards
If you want to be able to work with the individual layers of a Photoshop or Illustrator file, what option do you need to use when importing?
Import as a composition.
What are the primary differences between Premiere Pro and After Effects?
Premiere Pro is used to take bits from many different clips and arrange sequentially to create a project from start to finish, where After Effects is used to create complex visual effects, animated titles and work with 3D by stacking many visual elements on top of one another.
What tool allows you to zoom in and out of the timeline?
Zoom Tool.
What panel displays layers and keyframes?
Timeline Panel.
What panel holds all of your media, comps, and solids?
Project Panel.
What panel holds all of your tools?
Tool Bar.
What panel displays the composition’s visual elements?
Composition Panel.
If you get a little crazy moving panels around, how do you get back to the “standard” layout?
Window/Workspace/Reset “standard” to saved layout.
How can you set your autosave to 5 minutes?
Preferences/AutoSave dialog box.
What is attribution?
Attribution is acknowledgment as credit for the author of a work which is used or appears in another work. Include the title, author, source, and license.
What is intellectual property?
Intellectual property are creations of the mind and includes things like copyright, trademarks, and patents for artistic works, music, symbols, and designs.
What is derivative work?
Derivative work is a new, original product that includes aspects of a preexisting, already copyrighted work. Also known as a “new version,” this work can include musical arrangements, motion pictures, art reproductions, sound recordings or translations. They can also include dramatizations and fictionalizations, such as a movie based on a play.
What is public domain?
Public domain is the status of a literary work or an invention whose copyright or patent has expired or that never had such protection.
What is Fair Use?
Fair Use is the doctrine that brief excerpts of copyright material may, under certain circumstances, be quoted verbatim for purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching, and research, without the need for permission from or payment to the copyright holder.
What is Creative Commons?
Creative Commons is an American non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.
How do you keep the Project Panel organized?
Use folders to organize your media and compositions.
Why is it important to save your After Effects project in a specific place and organize your media?
- Makes it easier for other team members to work on the project.
- Makes it easier to backup your project.
- Makes it easier to find later.
What panel do you use to make adjustments to an effect once you have applied it?
Effect Controls.
What is the keyboard shortcut you hold when clicking on the animation stop watch that opens the expression panel?
Alt/Opt.
How do you apply an effect to a specific layer?
Drag it from the effects panel and drop it on the layer in the timeline or on the element in the comp window OR select the layer and then double click on the effect.
What do you call a little piece of code—much like a script—that evaluates to a value for a single layer property at a specific point in time?
Expression.
What is the keyboard shortcut for duplicating a layer/track?
Ctrl/Cmd + D.
What do you call an invisible layer that has all the properties of a visible layer so that it can be a parent to any layer in the composition?
Null Object.
What tool allows you to draw a path or create a custom mask in After Effects?
Pen Tool.
This image file format allows you to have transparency. We used it for the airplane and car graphics in the map project.
.PNG
What is the spiral control that allows you to drag and drop to connect an expression to something else?
Pick Whip.
If you accidentally move or rename a file that is connected to a project, how do you reconnect it?
Right-click in the project panel on the file and select “Replace Media.”
What do you call the process of converting a layer or multiple layers on the timeline into a new composition?
Pre-compose.
What do you have to do before using the rectangle tool to make sure you create a shape layer and not mask a layer?
Make sure no layer is selected in the timeline.
Understanding the reason or ______________ for a client project will help an animator make better choices for meeting the client’s needs.
Purpose.
What is the panel dedicated to making adjustments to your effects?
Effects Control.
What do you call the tool that allows you to adjust the space between all the selected text evenly?
Tracking.
What is a method for making a layer semi-transparent so that it blends with the layer below it?
- Layer/Blending Mode/Select a mode.
- Right click on the layer and Blending Mode/Select a mode.
- Select a blend mode in the timeline panel.
Which export option opens another application used to render your project?
Adobe Media Encoder.
What is a super fast way of quickly animating text?
Use one of the text preset animations.
What is the keyboard shortcut to open a new composition?
Command + N.
What is the keyboard shortcut to reveal the keyframes of a selected layer?
U.
What is the keyboard shortcut to fit composition to window?
Shift + /.
What keyboard shortcut is use for opacity transformation?
T.
What keyboard shortcut is used to spread out several selected keyframes proportionally?
Option + Drag.
What tool helps animators communicate design concepts with clients so that the project will meet their expectations.
Storyboard.
What switch will allow you to add a realistic blur to things that are moving?
Motion Blur.
What do you call the spot where your visual element scales or rotates from?
Anchor Point.
What keyboard shortcuts moves to previous or next keyframes?
J & K.
What keyboard shortcut applies Easy Ease to selected keyframes?
F9
What keyboard shortcut plays and pauses the timeline?
Space Bar.
What keyboard shortcut adds keyframes and opens transformation properties?
Shift + Option + Transformation Letter
What do you call the guides that help you make sure your titles are in a safe zone?
Title Safe.
What is a popular format for exporting your videos for the web?
H.264/Quicktime.
What do you call the visual display that allows you to see and adjust the easing in more of a graph like display?
Graph Editor.
What do you call the series of vertical and horizontal lines that cover the composition?
Grid.
In addition to finding Drop Shadow in the Effects and Presets Panel, you can also find it under which menu?
Effects / Perspective.
What keyboard shortcut will add a rotation keyframe at the current time indicator?
Shift + Alt/Opt + R.
What is NTSC?
The North American Video Standard.
What is PAL?
The European Video Standard.
What is the frame rate that matches digital video?
30 frames per seconds.
What is the frame rate that matches film?
24 frames per seconds.
What is one advantage of converting a vector layer into a shape layer?
You can easily control the fill and stroke colors inside After Effects.
If I want to turn my image to sepia, what panel can I use to search for this?
Effects & Presets.
What do you call the idea of aligning a subject with the guidelines and their intersection points, placing the horizon on the top or bottom line, or allowing linear features in the image to flow from section to section?
Rule of Thirds.
How do you add a guide to your composition?
Drag a guide out from the ruler.
What do you call it when you use the pixels in one layer to hide another layer?
Track Matte.
Which export option will allow you to render multiple compositions and multiple formats all at once?
Adobe Media Encoder.
What is the name of handles that allow you to bend a path?
Bezier.
What do you call the lines that indicate the movement of the animated anchor?
Anchor Path.
What panel is use to organize your layers and control your keyframes?
Timeline.
What panel allows you to easily search for effects and preset animations?
Effects & Presets.
What panel is used to control your anchor paths and setup motion tracking?
Layer Panel
What panel allows you to adjust effects?
Effect Controls.
What do you have to add to the composition to give the 3D object colors and shadows so you can see it?
Lights.
Which axis controls the depth of your 3D layer?
Z- Axis
What is Point Light?
Like a bare light bulb.
What is Spot Light?
Like a flashlight; creates dramatic shadows.
What do have to do to give your text depth once it is a 3D layer?
Extrude.
Which two panels are essential for setting up your motion tracking?
Layer & Tracker panels.
What is the effect that smooths out shaky handheld video?
Warp stabilizer.
What panel allows you to pre-trim footage before you put it into a comp?
Footage panel.
What term is used in the Tracker Panel for selecting what to apply the tracking data to?
Motion target.
What can you use to speed up or slow down a video track in After Effects?
Time Remapping.
This region defines the area that After Effects will search to locate the tracked feature. The tracked feature needs to be distinct only within the search region, not within the entire frame. Confining the search to a small search region saves search time and makes the search process easier, but runs the risk of the tracked feature leaving the search region entirely between frames.
Search Region.
This region defines the element in the layer to be tracked. This region should surround a distinct visual element, preferably one object in the real world. After Effects must be able to clearly identify the tracked feature throughout the duration of the track, despite changes in light, background, and angle.
Feature Region.
This designates the place of attachment for the target —the layer or effect control point to synchronize with the moving feature in the tracked layer.
Attach Point.
People often apply tracking data to what type of a layer so that it can then be parented to any layer?
Null Object.
What do you call the process of looking for changes in color or luminance over time and creating keyframes that mark the changes?
Motion Tracking.
What tool will allow you to create a mask?
Any shape or the Pen Tool.
What is the keyboard shortcut to reveal a mask?
M.
How can you blend the pixels from multiple layers together?
Blend modes.
What do you call the process of changing or hiding logos in the set decoration?
Greeking.
What effect is used to chroma key in After Effects?
Keylight.
What do you call the information that you can embed into a video file like the author or copyright date?
Metadata.
Once you have added a path to a text layer, how do you get the text to follow the path?
Select the path in the “path options.”
How do you connect an audio effect like “Audio Spectrum” to the music in your comp?
Select the audio track in the Effect Controls panel.
Which layers will an Adjustment Layer affect?
Only the layers below.
How can you automatically generate keyframes for the amplitude of an audio track?
Right click/Keyframe Assistant/Convert Audio to Keyframes.
Which option allows you to import an individual layer from a Photoshop file?
Footage.
What do you use to connect the animation one layer to the animation on another layer?
Parenting.
How do you change the color of a layer?
Click on the colored square in the “Label” column of the timeline and select the color.
What animation principle is used when you use the graph editor to create a little bounce at the end of your animation?
Follow through.
How do you apply an Elliptical mask using only Menu options?
Layer > Mask > New Mask then Layer > Mask > Mask Shape then reset to Ellipse.
What type of layer is like a transparent sheet of glass that allows you to apply an effect to ALL the layers BELOW it?
Adjustment Layer.
How do you export a composition as a layered Photoshop file?
Composition > Save Frame As > Photoshop Layers.
How do you apply a text animation in the Timeline panel?
Open the text layer, click on “Animate” and then select an option.
How do you adjust the volume of a sound?
Change the dB value for the Audio Levels in the timeline panel.
What keyboard shortcut reveals the mask properties for the selected layer?
M.
What keyboard shortcut reveals the keyframes for the selected layer?
U.
