After Effects 101 Quiz

To help you in your preparations to be proficient in After Effects I've prepared a Mastery List that includes skills you should master.

Do the following:

1. Start a project that is NTSC DV Widescreen?
2. It should be 10 seconds, and 11 frames long. 
3. Import a clip and a picture from your libraries. 
4. Start the Video clip at 00 seconds. 
5. Place the picture above the video in the timeline and start it at 2 seconds. 
6. The video instance should be named Video 1.
7. The picture instance should be named Picture 1 and run from 2 seconds to 8 seconds. 
8. Make sure the Title Safe area is visible.
9. The Resolution on the monitor should be set to Half. 
10. Add a lens flare to the picture layer.
11. The video should fade in during the first 2 seconds of the composition. 
12. Add a text layer that is your first Name.
13. The text layer should Run from 3 seconds until 10 seconds.  
14. The text layer should start off the screen and drop from the top of the screen and "ease in" until it's in the middle of the screen.  Include a motion blur on the text layer as it drops in.  from 5 to 8 seconds the text should rotate 360 degrees.  From 8 to 10 seconds the text should rise off the page.  Remember to ease out the text and include a motion blur. 
15. Include a mask on the picture layer in the form of a star.  
16. The mask should make the picture layer fade out slowly for 2 seconds (from 2 to 4 seconds) then fade in for 4 seconds (from 4 to 8 seconds). 
17. The mask should be feathered at 35%. 
18. Make the video that you use have a Sepia look (the instructions are in the tutorials).