One of the things that make After Effects animation a bit easier is that the design of the areas of five basic characteristics of a "transform" set is all that is common to all After Effects items. It is this common foundation makes the field a little more familiar and help you plan your design.
Each object in After Effects has the same set of attributes in the group to "transform": ". Anchor Point, Position, Scale, Rotation and Opacity." All of these attributes are displayed with the stopwatch icon to the left which means they can all be animated as you discover new attributes, it is a visual instant message, and it is if you see a clock on the left of an attribute can be animated!
Some may surprise you. For example, when you add new text and see the clock next to the original text, which is why it can be animated. If you type "Hello" at the beginning of the timeline, then 3 seconds into the film to change the text to say "goodbye", this change in the text is animated.
After Effects has many tools, wizards and many shortcut keys. For me, like driving a car, many will become familiar with the use, but fortunately for this basic set, the shortcut key is the first character of the attribute: 'A' for 'Anchor', 'r' for 'Rotation' and so further. These keys are not case sensitive. There is an exception in this group and it is "opacity" if the shortcut is 't'. You need this often, and if you enter one of these "P" for the position, this attribute will be open this attribute. Even if you have opened several others, enter the shortcut key for an attribute to open one.
If you have an attribute is displayed, then enter the keyboard shortcut for a second while holding the shift key ', will both be displayed. Adobe offers an index of all their shortcuts, but your memory will store the ones you use a lot, and you can watch this index when you want to know about the others.
All these attributes have the value displayed in a manner familiar to you clearly said that can be accessed with a click of the mouse. An excellent introduction is simply to change the values and see the evolution of the objects it manipulates. Choose the "opacity" and drag up and down while watching the object and disappear from existence. Its range is always between 0 and 100%. Select "Position" and move the object side of the stage and get an idea of the values of proximity. The position values based on the size of your composition, size of the scene.
After Effects has a rich collection of effects, readings and special songs, but when it comes to moving in "Motion Graphics", you will spend much time with the "Transformers" set of values.
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