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Free online courseAfter effects

Duration of the online course: 9 hours and 21 minutes

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Create smooth motion graphics and edits with this free After Effects course—learn animation, masking, text effects, and export skills for real projects.

In this free course, learn about

  • Navigate After Effects interface, panels, timeline, and basic workflow
  • Create basic animations with keyframes (position, scale, rotation, opacity)
  • Animate along position paths; refine motion paths for smoother movement
  • Import Photoshop comps and manage layers for compositing in After Effects
  • Use Motion Sketch to record and edit motion with keyframes
  • Render/export videos with correct format, codec, resolution, and frame rate
  • Render transparent video using alpha channel settings and suitable formats
  • Use Hold keyframes and Toggle Hold to create stepped/stop-motion timing
  • Apply masking: draw/edit masks, animate mask paths, feather/expand settings
  • Advanced masking: multiple masks, mask modes, tracking-like workflows
  • Use parenting to link layer transforms and build hierarchical animations
  • Work faster with essential keyboard shortcuts for common AE operations
  • Pre-compose layers to organize projects and apply effects/animation cleanly
  • Improve timing with Easy Ease, Ease In/Out, and keyframe interpolation
  • Create shape layers, animate shape properties, and build vector graphics
  • Animate text with text layers and animation presets; customize text animators
  • Control motion with Speed and Value Graphs in Graph Editor
  • Use adjustment layers and null objects for global effects and motion control

Course Description

Want to turn simple visuals into engaging motion graphics that look professional and feel polished? This free online course in After Effects is designed for anyone who wants to edit and animate video with confidence, even if you are opening the software for the first time. You will get comfortable with the interface, build a clean workflow, and start creating animations that communicate ideas clearly.

Instead of relying on random tricks, you will develop a solid foundation in how After Effects works. You will practice essential animation principles by moving and refining elements over time, controlling motion paths, and shaping timing so your work feels smooth and intentional. As you progress, you will learn how to combine design assets into compositions, making it easier to turn static graphics into motion-ready scenes.

You will also gain practical skills that make a big difference in real projects, such as masking for clean cutouts and reveals, organizing complex scenes with parented layers, and working faster with widely used keyboard shortcuts. Along the way, you will learn when to pre-compose, how to manage layers more efficiently, and how to use tools like adjustment layers and null objects to keep animations flexible and easy to tweak.

To take your motion design further, the course guides you through shape layers and text animation, helping you create modern titles, kinetic typography, and stylish on-screen graphics. You will explore easing and refine motion using speed and value graphs, which is where animations start to feel less mechanical and more cinematic. Finally, you will learn how to render and export properly, including options for transparent video when you need overlays for editing, branding, or social content.

By the end, you will be able to build cleaner compositions, animate with better timing, and export your work for practical use in videos, ads, intros, and content creation. If you are aiming to improve your portfolio or add a valuable video editing and motion graphics skill to your toolkit, this course gives you a strong starting point with real, hands-on learning.

Course content

  • Video class: After Effects Class ZERO Introduction and Interface - Urdu / Hindi

    08m

  • Video class: Basic Animations in After Effects - Urdu Hindi

    22m

  • Video class: Position Path in After Effects - Urdu Hindi

    22m

  • Video class: Composition from Photoshop in After Effects - Urdu Hindi

    22m

  • Video class: Motion Sketch in After Effects - Urdu / Hindi

    18m

  • Video class: How to Render Export Video in After Effects

    06m

  • Video class: How to Render Transparent Video in After Effects

    05m

  • Video class: Toggle Hold Keyframes in After Effects

    06m

  • Video class: Masking in After Effects

    11m

  • Video class: Masking Part 2 in After Effects

    10m

  • Video class: Parent Layers in After Effects

    12m

  • Video class: 37 Basic Keyboard Shortcuts in After Effects

    10m

  • Video class: Pre-compose in Adobe After Effects

    14m

  • Video class: Ease in, Ease Out

    11m

  • Video class: Shape Layers in After Effects

    12m

  • Video class: Text Layer and Animation Presets in After Effects

    11m

  • Video class: Text Animation in After Effects - Replay Class

    40m

  • Video class: Speed Graph in After Effects

    12m

  • Video class: Value Graph in Adobe After Effects

    19m

  • Video class: Adjustment Layer and Null Object in After Effects

    08m

This free course includes:

9 hours and 21 minutes of online video course

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