New To The Game

[Michael Szalapski]

This is the best (free) resource I know to get started: https://adobe.ly/AE_basics
Those specs look decent. The GPU will matter for Premiere. If you have an SSD for your AE cache, that will help.

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[Grant Parkis]

thanks mike…great resource

I also joined some tutorials from bluefx and schoolofmotion

I figure spending the 23 hours a week on actually doing AE will serve me better then enrolling in formal education on this topic.

[Chris Zecco]

Grant,

Best of luck on your quest. Here are some resources I use almost daily:

https://www.mtmograph.com/
https://www.schoolofmotion.com/
https://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/15-after-effects-tutorials-every-motion-designer-needs-to-watch/
https://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/page/3/

Hope these help!

Chris

2012 Mac Pro
2x 2.4GHz Intel Xeon
24GB RAM
4GB EVGA GTX 960

2011 Macbook Pro
2.4GHz i7
16GB RAM

[Walter Soyka]

[grant parkis] “1. great sources to begin learning ae cc, platform/scripts/expressions”

Michael gave you a great reference. These are a couple of my favorites:

Video Copilot Basics
https://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2010/01/video-copilot-basic-training-s.html

Andrew Devis’s Basics (right here on the COW)
https://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2012/02/after-effects-basics-tutorials-by-andrew-devis.html

Walter Soyka
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