After Effects CS4 Essential Tutorial 1

This Video Tutorial introduces After Effects CS4 and some of its essential handling concepts. As a simpe example a quick time movie will be manipulated by adding a preset effect to a rising sun emphasizing some sunbeams. The main elements are composition, adding an asset, selecting an animation preset (involves Adobe Bridge) called twinkle star, working with timeline and keyframes, with effects such as opacity and blur, transform by position and rotation and finally preview.