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Here’s my advise. Adobe After Effects is a program that can be learned fairly fast with a little dedication. Am I talking about knowing everything AE can do? Heck no. The program is extremely robust and you can easily invest years into learning it and not get it all. What I’m saying is getting to know the basics. A title sequence, a lower 3rd, a bumper and basic animation can be picked up pretty quickly and they are invaluable for those of us making commercials and short films.

As far as a 3d programs are concerned and you are a filmmaker that mainly wants to spit out commercials and short films, I would steer away from unless you are a cyborg who can pick up things really fast or you don’t have a day job and are looking to fill up that immense amount of free time.

Remember, there is always someone we know that knows 3d that would love to collaborate with you to turn that particular scene into reality.

Okay, so where can you start learning AE? I’ve compiled 3 great sites for the beginner.

1. Lynda.com will teach the basics of what each tool does and AE’s core functionalities.

2. To learn what is possible creatively, there no better place than Andrew Kramer’s site Videocopilot.net.

3. Aetutsplus.com is site of tutorials and links to everything AE.

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