After Effects Skill Test: Are you (actually) good?

[@CinecomCrew]

Teacher Jordy and his aweful coffee breath are back! ☕ Did you pass the test? If not, you'd better start learning After Effects ► www.cinecom.net/courses/adobe-after-effects-beginners 💪

[@ichbinich401]

Hi!!

[@saberpotatoboy4151]

hello

[@Magitract]

Hiii

[@dsalainti]

remember to save the project consistently every 5 minutes should be considered as ultra pro, sometimes ur too excited with the projects u forgot to save it then it crash :)

[@thegamedudeguy]

somehow reading your comment made my brain short-circuit so that I impulsively pressed Ctrl+S on a youtube video.

[@memesneverdie9913]

i set my autosave at 1min

[@dongachette8321]

@@memesneverdie9913 lmao!!!

[@Poohmedia]

@@memesneverdie9913 Mine was the same for a while, bought some parts to make my pc run faster. Now set to every 5mins lol

[@NOTONtechsx]

I don't know why Adobe doesn't do something about this. It's stupid and annoying. Resolve has something called live save or something idk wat it's called but it doesn't have this sort of stupid problem.

[@VukovskiMedia]

0:30 Press "U" on your keyboard to show all active keyframes on a selected layer 0:48 Ctrl + Click on the time display to change it from seconds to frames 1:10 Ctrl + Shift + E to delete all the effects from a layer 1:26 When masking, enable the RotoBezier function to make every corner rounded. 1:44 Use the mask feather tool to have a more controlled mask. 3:54 To squish keyframes proportionally in the timeline, select all the keyframes and hold Alt + Click and drag the last keyframe 4:17 One track matte for all layers (with newer versions of After Effects) 4:57 To find the children to a parented layer, select the main parent layer, right click and Select Children 5:16 Scale composition precisely with Region of Interest 5:45 To extrude 3D text in After Effects, first change the 3D renderer (Cinema 4D). 2 new property groups will appear. 6:51 Auto-trace option, for automated masking. 7:33 Free 3D Normalization Script for AE 7:52 Restore motion blur to your green key with the Refine Hard Matte effect 8:16 To see changes from a pre-comp in the main comp, lock root composition window and open View>New Viewer 8:59 Hold down Shift and use the pick whip tool to link a layer to another layer with the same properties (position, scale, rotation...)

[@VukovskiMedia]

Hey @CinecomCrew, your videos are full of useful tips, and I watch a lot of them. Sometimes I forget the specific steps for one of your tips and I find myself browsing through your videos to find it. It would be very helpful if you would add timecodes with short descriptions or titles in the description, so that people can easily find the tip that they need. Just a suggestion. Keep up the good work guys and thank you!

[@divinepraiseeric]

Thank you! We always need people like you in the comments. 👍👍.

[@WildinFury]

Life changing

[@mydailyvlogs03684]

Thank you life saver

[@flavinhopombo]

I can't believe if just drag the SHIFT button to parent a layer would have saved 152626 hours of job so far. Forever learning!

[@CinecomCrew]

Glad we could help 😉

[@snraijuu]

"Stop doubting yourself and start testing" is an underestimated phrase.

[@johntnguyen1976]

Love love love these "are you actually good?" episodes! A great way to constantly give yourself a pop-quiz as an artist!

[@DanielZH]

The storytelling, funny edits and all the things that have been done are getting better and better, it's crazy.

[@potvoramedia]

Wow, I am better than I expected. My score is ZERO. But uniike many others, I know how to actually start AE! No, seriously - I am a true AE beginner, I know only few things that I really needed - content-aware fill, camera tracking, motion tracking, rotobrush 2.0 and that's pretty much it. Very grateful for these videos and especially the AE Basic channel!

[@dennyduane]

This was so good you've come along way with acting and creativity around making the videos. Been learning from you forever.

[@vishavaroraYT]

we can always add up properties in essential graphics to see and use it anywhere outside of the comps, plus it gives us ability to make instances of the composition while maintaining the original composition.

[@carlosvalencia2235]

4:44 that coffee mug is fire

[@TheDreRock]

Just gotta say 1. this video is so incredibly dope and helpful 2. as if i wasn’t already the target audience for the sponsor (the nature of music content gets stuff claimed FAST) homie threw in THIS IS WHY BY PARAMORE as the subtle meta example. you won 💥💳💥💥💳💥

[@Nati_G]

I didn't expect this 10-minute video to be as useful as it is!

[@africaamaze]

It's really a good test. Glad to know I'm a pro because I have doubted myself as an after effect user with about 14 + years of usage experience

[@Psyspell]

Thanks for the good tips! I didn't know half of "noob" tips, but did know 80% of the others. Guess it makes me an advanced or professional noob:)

[@ReidVV]

That performance was a tour de force of teaching excellence and humor. BRAVO!!! Well Done!

[@lennoxjohnston810]

Love this!!! Region of interest crop is a game changer ❤️

[@CinecomCrew]

Glad we could help 😉

[@nilekroner7209]

the track matte update was the best thing to happen to after effects in a long time. I hated using them before and now its painless.

[@itsincredible2669]

I LOVE YOU! is the word thanks for making my life easier with that composition tip if only I knew it was that easy, the tears of sadness and joy simultaneously, Thanks Mate

[@itsincredible2669]

not only that, the parenting that allows you to copy all the properties to the child that was yumm!

[@ironicanimations]

3:00 I love how he spammed a bunch of songs, but that’s awesome XD they were good pics

[@ed61730]

I wouldn't call it cheating, it's working smarter not harder! I have sometimes saved hours just using 'True comp duplicator' makes making revisions so much easier and non destructive.

[@dbahsee]

i felt like a noob at some parts in the beginning and then at the middle i knew stuff there, and as we got to pro i knew two of the items mentioned....but still learned a bunch THANKS

[@BalsaRadunovic]

Thank you for good tips. You are amazing guys, wish you all the best.

[@johnalexandercaucaligalind232]

I need the second test, great video.

[@OrikzHD]

really great tips I only knew about 60 percent of these. The auto trace, dual window and refine matte tools are game changers!

[@0LucasP]

i love your videos, its something that musted be on tv at morning for kids before school. :)

[@BenSparroow]

This is one of the best after effects videos I've ever watched

[@boenje]

Were well made video guys! You rock!

[@nebilmulugeta8032]

Minflow chart is a pro tip too going back and forward in compositions is preety convinient

[@andreasplata]

thanks guys, that were great tips! 👊

[@hindudivinity7102]

I like the way u teach .. information is very precious and ur video style of teaching 😂is so awesome

[@MyfanwyMcLean-t5z]

Extrude would have worked wonders today for me, but I don't mind what I created anyway. Thanks I'm probably a little all over the shop. Just for starters will use this video again.

[@arwqs]

Thank you for the reality check

[@Planetofpeaceq.]

Thanks for sharing 🤝

[@editone2098]

Gonna check it

[@susazi]

the coffee mug ahhahaha ! glad i found your chanel

[@ed61730]

Amazing I knew them all except some of the noob ones. Never used the mask feather feature but this will be a game changer! :) Thanks!

[@palakmeena3495]

Man, I'm on okey level 😂

[@MarcAllins]

That last tip made me spit my coffee all over my monitor. Jordy, I will be invoicing you for a new one. Thanks!

[@CinecomCrew]

😂

[@MakeitReal786]

Except a tip in the noob section "adding points in mask father" knew all of them lol

[@ezekarel]

Thanks for those great tips I knew some of them on each of the different levels But my best tip is the last one so glad I know this now

[@jackalexander6246]

u can also use environment layers for c4d for different environments and u can change that w material setting or whatever its called

[@nikyabodigital]

Wow these are really good tips

[@S9universe]

the mask feather tool damnnn

[@garnishstudio3567]

Funnily enough, I didn't know most of the noob tips, but knew most of the pro and okey ones! wow. I guess I should have spent more time in the noob learning process!

[@chernobylfilms]

I knew things from all the levels. but no all. the path of after effects never ends.

[@Darkstarproductions1]

Love your videos, I'm going to say I made it to pro for 99% of the test haha.

[@DavidSuperville]

ah man, I NEEDED the 3d Track Normalizer script last week when I spent a couple hours normalizing 12 shots for a music video. lol

[@carlanthonydelosangeles7411]

Still learning the ropes haha happy Friday!

[@LightBoyOP]

I learned 2 things thank you so much!

[@capnkirkie1]

No way he did the “ain’t nobody got time for that” 😭😂😂

[@SaintLogos]

I love this funny and interesting video. thank you so much for your videos guys

[@BarranteMotion]

Blown away that you managed to license a Sigur Ros track! Sweet!

[@CinecomCrew]

Such beautiful music and it totally fitted the Faroe Islands video 😍

[@lazyboy2892]

i learned so many things from your video

[@arvzsights5045]

I love you men! Haha learned a lot from your videos

[@Perforu]

I didn't know all of these but maaaan the PRO section could have been so much more meta / deeper :D

[@Panamations]

Didn't got them all, but now I do know them! Thanks :D

[@odinson18]

I learnt a lot from your videos ❤️❤️❤️

[@RishavSaraf]

My God, best video ever. Skillshare is gonna shut down for good now.

[@hassanfareed1290]

I am Pro Man, Now i can ask for 70% hike to my HR, Manager! Thank you Jordy..

[@KeithAvila]

Im a noob. I’ve been using premiere pro for 9 years and one day I wanted a moon in my clip. People are dancing at night and I want to add a big moon so now here I am watching multiple videos. This one’s good

[@KeithAvila]

Wow… in just 11 days since i watched this for the first time I actually learned so much. I’m still a noob but now I can actually understand a bunch of what he’s saying. I can’t do it but I can understand now😂 I’ve been on after effects everyday some days for 4-5 hours at a time! In 11 days I learned motion tracking, some ripple effect I used for the moons reflection off the river, I learned masking and I learned how to transform masking with key frames while simultaneously motion tracking. I learned where the button for blending is and I learned how to use Ultra Key… I think it’s called when using a green screen to overly birds in my footage. Im moving pretty fast in my study and one thing I noticed is that a bunch of videos that I first watched are starting to make more sense!

[@rvraje2503]

I'm using AE for more than a year, but I didn't know even the noob level! What a shame 😥

[@jpi_1990]

I got like 50%, cool tips!

[@dhiwantara8357]

okay i failed at the last 2 question but hey thank you so much for telling it sucks to go through comps because the effect is in a precomp

[@kingdom632]

After Effects is a whole universe, I will never consider myself as a pro till have 10% of Andrew Kramer's skills. So basically noob for a life :) Good tips in the video.

[@theurikarichu8313]

I didn't know this is what I was looking for to learn after effects. Hilarious!🤣

[@ElectronicBoxOfficial]

amazing as always, also i can sit and watch your comic series for hours (if you make)

[@gokulsj1362]

Passed beginner level 🥰❤️

[@vcmedia1895]

Not even 2 mins in and this guy is giving laughs with FREE GAME 😂❤

[@Daweisstebescheid]

Looking for a jacket in your size 🤣👏

[@vozzy06]

Do surviving after effect's start up can be consider as expert?

[@CinecomCrew]

Definitely!

[@justkaddy333]

again tqsm

[@alfonta]

love the grandpa suit

[@armando.visuals]

I love this channel lol

[@FriendlyUncle]

Been using AE for 10 years now. I think the only stuff I don't touch is scripts for my profession but on personal projects it can be quite helpful. I wouldn't say knowing all of this makes you a pro - I would say it makes you proficient in AE.

[@xxxxxShirosakixxxxx]

why? because its not needed or because they dont like it if you use scripts? sorry for dumb question , but i dont wanna apply for a job and find out i cant use scripts xD

[@FriendlyUncle]

@@xxxxxShirosakixxxxx It depends on the job. I work for an agency so every Motion Artist needs to have the same equipment, plugins and software for obvious reasons. If you freelance, it's not an issue or depending where you work.

[@xxxxxShirosakixxxxx]

@@FriendlyUncle oh that makes sense, thanks!

[@aka.Eterno]

Id like to see the same video with premiere pro :) Very good video!

[@manecolooper]

100% pro!!! yeah!

[@aluqmanhakim4556]

I need my certificate, i didn’t skip this video class 😂

[@aymenazouz9065]

4:25 please explain how to make that track matt expansion like that .. i love it ..

[@Kryptone]

Use an ink splatter overlay

[@PLAYTOPIA776]

tutorial for lockwood and co ghost effect

[@jithinpvkmcy]

I got it, 100%😎

[@gideonvfx]

Nice teaching Am a Beginner

[@19visuals]

i learn few things thanks

[@rpkgraphiks9011]

I got 50 to 60% of this quiz, pretty helpful though, Thanks.

[@atomicartz469]

I think I'm quite good at premiere pro but I'm starting after effects now and It's so different. Luckily I have some experience in PP

[@FilipGrony]

Actually I struggled with first few ones than the last ones :DDDD

[@animexike9265]

Thanks you yeahhhhhhhhhh

[@renlaidao]

Very nice

[@CARTOONSWORLD0077]

Which app do you use right in this video

[@hamilton_podcast]

I fall under the PRO category then and yet I cuss myself as a NOOB 24/7...

[@LeonardoMoreira-pz3qu]

I've been using alt to place elements on the 3D solids location.

[@LipNeedsMoreCoffee]

On my way to pro, not quite there (yet).

[@davidrempel433]

I usually spend half an hour looking for a script to do a task I could have done in 1 minute

[@CinecomCrew]

Haha, been there 😅

[@pranjal_ae]

Damn these tips 😋😋

[@JoanAbah]

advanced level

[@justkaddy333]

didn`t passed but learned a lot of thingssssss

[@ManMpha]

Didn't know 2 tips in the noobs section but knew the rest. Now I don't know if I'm a noob or a pro

[@elepro5038]

Same here! LOL!

[@ManMpha]

@Cinecomnet Hello scammer?! How much do you want?

[@mukulsingh3120]

sir where is roto scope

[@fredmercury1314]

5:22 Little known fact: I can lick my own elbow.

[@ironicanimations]

I’m at noob level, didn’t even know any of the special tips, but that’s ok, I have a lot to learn 💙 And I don’t use after effects as much XD