Learning Adobe After Effects CC Tutorial Videos (Udemy.com)

This is a 16.7 hour tour of After Effects CC from Infinite Skills, built for people who have never touched the program. It starts with the interface and workflow, then moves into importing footage, layers, text, shapes, paint tools, masks, motion tracking, stabilizing, and basic 3D work with the Cinema 4D pipeline. Working project files are included so students can follow along lecture by lecture rather than just watching.

Reviewers consistently praise the pace. Several say the instructor explains things slowly enough that concepts that felt overwhelming elsewhere finally click, and one called the voiceover expert at feeding newbies information at the right moment. The recurring complaint is the project files: a handful of students report dozens of missing or broken assets in the first lesson and say fixes posted in the Q&A didn't work for them. A couple of others found the instructor's habit of saying "guys" grating or the delivery a bit flat.

The course was last updated in 2017, so the interface and some panels will look dated next to current After Effects, though the core tools covered (layers, masks, tracking, 3D) haven't changed much. At 4.4 stars across 720 ratings it holds up fine for a first pass at the software, but budget time to sort out the file issues before you start, and don't expect it to touch anything added to After Effects in the last few years.