After Effects Advanced Basic Tutorial

For class, I'll be demonstrating the tutorial on Advanced Lightning in After Effects.
The tutorial itself can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxnXtYfy19s

It is a very basic tutorial that goes into how to set up the effect, animate it via its attributes like the origin, direction and changing it's colour.

1. Create a new solid layer with any colour (I choose black). Can be smaller than composition.
2. Go to the Presets/Effects window on the right side of the work space. If this window is not present, check it on in the top Window settings. Also make sure the preview panel is visible.
3. Type in advanced in the presets/effects search bar and advanced lightning will appear. Once selected, drag it into the composition.
4. Once the lightning is visible, notice the top point which is called the origin. This is where the lightning starts from.
5. The point at the bottom is known as the direction.When moved, this will change the forks direction.
6. In the lightning Effect panel, theren are several options:
*Lightning type
*Origin
*Direction
*Conductivity Stat
*Core Settings
*Glow Settings
*Alpha Obsticale
*Turbulence
*Forking
*Decay
*Expert Settings
7. Lightning type will alter the lightning appearance like making it a strike, breaking, bouncy, omni,
anywhere, vertical or two-way strike.
8.Turbulence option if increased will add more of a additional thickness to the lightning.
9. Glow settings allow changing the lightning's colour like making it red or green rather than the default blue colour. Opacity and glow size can be changed too.
10. Each of these options can be animated, so you can have control over the lightning's behaviour.

That's all the tutorial demonstrated but there are even more options that can be animated and changed especially in the expert settings, that can go that step further in making a really snazzy effect.