4.1 Use core tools and features to create content.

a. Create visual elements using a variety of tools.

• Key Concepts: solids, shape layers, and creating shapes from vector layers ii.
• Key Tools: Shape (e.g. Rectangle, etc.), Pen, and vector editing (e.g. Add Vertex, etc.) tools 

b. Place assets into a composition.

• Key Concepts: asset placement, temporal (timeline) position, spatial (coordinates)position, layer stacking order

4.2 Create, manipulate, and animate text.

a. Create text in a composition. 

• Key Concepts: point text, paragraph text, adding a path to text 

b. Adjust character settings.

• Key Settings: font, size, style, kerning, tracking, leading, horizontal and vertical scale, etc. 

c. Adjust paragraph settings. 

• Key Settings: alignment, indentation (e.g. Indent left margin, etc.), paragraph spacing, and left-to-right text direction. 

d. Animate text.

• Key Concepts: apply and adjust preset animations.

4.3 Adjust footage for use in compositions.

a. Adjust layers using a variety of tools. 

• Key Concepts: moving, sequencing, trimming, and splitting layers; setting In and Out points in the Footage panel

4.4 Modify digital media within a project.

a. Transform visual elements in the composition.

• Key Terms: scaling, rotating, flipping, moving, fitting to, etc. 

b. Change the speed of a video clip.

• Key Concepts: time remapping, time stretching, creating freeze frames. changing speed, time reverse

4.5 Manipulate digital video.

a. Use basic auto-correction methods and tools. 

• Key Tools: stabilization and color correction.

4.6 Add and modify effects and presets.

a. Apply and adjust a video effect or preset to a layer.

• Key Concepts: adding and adjusting video effect properties in the Effect Controls panel and timeline 

b. Use 3D space to modify composition elements

• Key Concepts: X,Y, and Z axes; two-dimensional objects in three-dimensional space; cameras; lighting; animating objects 

c. Create composites. 

• Key Concepts: keying, opacity, masking effects, mattes and alpha channels

d. Apply and modify effects and presets on multiple layers.

• Key Concepts: adjustment layers and animation presets

4.7 Create and modify keyframes for motion graphics.

a. Apply and adjust transformations using keyframes. 

• Key Concepts: keyframing the transform properties, motion paths, spatial and temporal interpolation, using the Graph Editor 

b. Animate effects using keyframes.

• Key Concepts: keyframing in the Effect Controls panel and timeline