What you should know by now (2/22):

- how to animate any layer’s property
- how to create a keyframe
- how to move a keyframe with the mouse and with the keyboard
- navigate the timeline
- how to go to the beginning or the end of a timeline
- how to jump one or ten frames forwards or backwards
- how to jump from one keyframe to the next
- how to move an anchorpoint
- how to trim layers
- how to move layers with keystrokes
- how to release artwork to layers in Illustrator
- how to tweak motion paths & temporal graphs
- how to create a type layer
- what range selectors & animators are
- how to animate tracking
- how to animate text along a path
- how to reveal text one letter at a time (X-files effect)
- what is the work area?
- how to set a work area
- how to preview your animations in real time
- how to mask out portions of a layer
- how to use parenting effectively
- how to nest & precompose
- how to render (basic) movies
- how to create a track matte