Complete Beginner

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ae podcast from creative cow go from the very beginning.

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[Steve Roberts]

Check out the Creative Calf.
Read the manual. It’s better than most.
Buy the AE Classroom in a Book. You can’t be that broke. 🙂
Google “after efects” and “tutorial”.

[Mike Clasby]

I still the best intro to AE was from the Editor’s Guild, but they’ve pulled the pages down… but, Internet Archive has archived the old pages on “The Way Back Machine”, here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20051210071307/https://www.editorsguild.com/AfterEffects.html

The materials buttons still have the source materials, but the aep’s and mov’s are no longer available, but you can follow the text of the tut with the materials easily.

Andrew’s AE 101 is a good place to start:

https://www.creativecow.net/articles/kramer_andrew/aftereffects101/index.html

Click on “Adobe After Effects” just below all the Moderators pictures on the main page to see all the Cow AE tutorials.

Aharon Rabinowitz’s tuts (clcik his head) are clear and concise and easy to follow, even the complex ones.

Here are all the Adobe AE tuts, many for beginners:

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/designcenter/search.cfm?product=After+Effects&go=Go

[Michiel]

Well if after all you find yourself prepared to spend at least some money, you simply cannot go wrong with the book “Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects” by Trish and Chris Meyer

https://www.amazon.com/Creating-Motion-Graphics-After-Effects/dp/1578202493/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_k2a_1_img/105-1916768-6038862

I think most people will agree that this is one of, if not THE best intro to AE (and actually still very handy as a resource when you’ve become a pro at it)

[Mike Clasby]

Here, here.