AE training one-stop shopping?

[Joseph W. bourke]

Try tv.adobe.com and then do a sort by Channels. There’s a lot of good stuff there. Lynda.com also has a wealth of training materials, well categorized, and well presented. You’ll also find a wealth of training materials right her on the COW:

https://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2012/02/after-effects-basics-tutorials-by-andrew-devis.html

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com

[Todd Kopriva]

I recommend starting here:
https://adobe.ly/AE_basics

That links to the resources that Joe mentioned, as well as several other good resources.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Chris Brett]

Hi — just learnt AE myself — did it as below after quite a few false starts.

1 AE basics on Video Copilot — then browse a few of Copilots tutorials just to get an idea of how to use it on more advanced comps.

2 Checkout Andrew Devis’s tutorials on Creative Cow — nice steady pace and well explained – good for basics and intermediate.

3 Get stuck in !! — set yourself a problem and dont give up till you do it —– trawl individual problems as they occur on the net — you tube / video to brain etc etc — theres masses of good stuff out there.

4 Copilot tutorials again and again until it does your head in ….

I dont think you will find a one stop shop but good luck if you are looking

All the best ————————chris —

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[Todd Kopriva]

> I dont think you will find a one stop shop but good luck if you are looking

Chris, did you look at what I linked to?

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Chris Brett]

Hi Todd

Yes I did – also, by some strange coincidence, just took another look myself when you posted.

I accept that all the info is in there but I guess what I was saying is that I reckon its best to have a number of sources and I would stick with that on the basis that different sites have different strengths.

I found Copilots slick operational style inspiring and quickly remembered a lot of the tricks and Andrew Devs’s tutorials very reassuring and easy to follow – also, of course’ I looked at the Adobe site.

Maybe depends a bit on personal preferences.

All the best ————————- chris —

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[Todd Kopriva]

Chris, my point was that the link that I gave links to both the Video Copilot materials and the Andrew Devis Creative COW materials, as well as others, in an ordered set.

I don’t know how much more “one stop shop” one could get.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Chris Brett]

Hi Todd —

I guess you could look at it like that but many is the time I’ve ended up trawling the net for answers despite these great resources.

Basically we agree — the sites listed are very much what I used myself ….. maybe a bit of a plug from me for Andrew Devis and Andrew Kramer because these were the tutorials I found most suited my approach however have to say the Adobe intro and much other good stuff was ‘essential reading’ also.

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