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After Effects Training: Essential Skills I

After Effects Training: Essential Skills I

After Effects Training: Essential Skills I Schedule

Austin, TX July 16-18, 2012 $1,295.00 Add to Cart
Phoenix, AZ - Tempe July 30-August 01, 2012 $1,295.00 Add to Cart

Special Group rates are available for this training.

We can also perform this training at your location or at one of the cities listed below:

After Effects Training: Essential Skills I Overview

This three day After Effects training is an in depth courseware using the industry standard tool for creating motion graphics and Hollywood style effects for cinema, broadcast television and web formats. Learn to create rich compositions with video, Photoshop, Illustrator and other files. Create advanced text effects, video blending, keying effects and track mattes. Learn basic through advanced animation techniques that make AfterEffects an unrivaled motion graphics toolset.  Your instructor will also cover nesting, creating precomps, expressions and other methods for streamlining video production.

Your instructor will cover the pitfalls, and the best practices will be followed so that you are creating professional-grade motion graphics and video effects that will be properly viewed by your audiences in this After Effects class.

This After Effects CS4/CS5 training is intensive, but not complicated. Our job is to make difficult concepts easy to understand and implement into your own projects.

Edit Video with Premiere
Add, edit and manipulate impressive effects

Create Animation with After Effects
Create animation and motion graphics

After Effects Training: Essential Skills I Course Materials

Along with this Three-Day Training, you will receive:

  • Course Manual
  • Student Files and Class Assets
  • How-To Videos on CD*
  • An Adobe Nationally Recognized Course Certificate
  • After-Class, Follow-Up Support
  • Conversion Tools Bookmark
  • Additional Goodies!

*Some classes may not include videos

 

After Effects Training: Essential Skills I Course Prerequisites

  • Basic Computer Skills on Windows or Mac

 

After Effects Training: Essential Skills I Course Outline

After Effects Training: Essential Skills I PDF Version of After Effects Training: Essential Skills I Outline

NEW FEATURES OF CS5 COVERED

  • Roto Brush
  • Auto-keyframe mode
  • Refine Matte effect and dozens of other enhancements
  • Color Look-Up Table support
  • Color Finesse 3 LE
  • Digieffects FreeForm

AFTER EFFECTS BASICS

  • Creating new Projects
  • About Sources, Sequences and Monitors
  • Video basics
    • Video Formats and other standards
    • Timecode
    • Cameras and video files
    • Acquiring video and adding to projects
    • Learning the Workspace
  • Adding sources and previewing files
  • About the Project panel tools
  • Creating folders in the project panel
  • Creating a new composition
  • Importing files and folders
  • Adding layers to the Comp panel
  • Changing the background color

LEARNING BASIC ANIMATION

  • Animating position
  • Navigating between keyframes
  • Dragging footage to the Timeline panel
  • Aligning and distributing layers
  • Editing spatial keyframes, motion paths
  • Auto orientation
  • Adding effects and using the Effects Control Panel
  • Importing Photoshop/Illustrator files
  • Adding Audio to Compositions
  • About the Preview Panel and RAM Preview
  • Render Queue and the Render Queue

 

INTERMEDIATE ANIMATION

  • Viewing animated properties
  • Panning and zooming time
  • Easing animations and Hold keyframes
  • Editing multiple keyframes
  • Motion sketch and properties
  • Using Smoother for auto generated keyframes
  • Motion Blur and editing properties
  • Roving Keyframes and an overview of the Graph Editor

MANIPULATING COMPOSITION LAYERS

  • Layers, stacking order and controls
  • Moving layers in time
  • Trimming layers in and out points
  • Slip editing
  • Sequence Layers assistant
  • Image sequences
  • Looping footage
  • Changing the frame rate
  • Time Stretch
  • Effectively using Blending Modes
  • Applying Effects to solid layers
  • Effect motion paths
  • Navigating the Effects & Presets panel
  • Creating Animation presets
  • Behavior presets
  • Adding Effects to Adjustment Layers

MASKS, MATTES AND TRANSPARENCY

  • Creating Transparency
  • Rectangular, Ellipse and Star Mask tool
  • Free Transform Points
  • Masking in the Layer panel
  • Mask Feathering and other options
  • Animating a Mask Shape
  • Masking with the Pen tool
  • Mask Opacity and animation
  • Alpha and Luma Track Matte
  • Using Mask shapes in Adobe Illustrator

WORKING WITH TYPE

  • Creating basic text
  • Adding Text Presets
  • Using Adobe Bridge to browse Presets
  • Working with Range Selectors
  • Animating text properties
  • Creating cascading and text animations
  • Animating by words, characters and lines
  • Creating Text on a path
  • Customizing presets

WORKING WITH PARENTING AND NESTING

  • Parenting, Nesting, and Expressions
  • Adding composition and layer markers
  • Assigning a parent
  • Parenting, opacity, and effects
  • Parenting with Null Objects
  • Nesting compositions
  • Precompositing a group of layers

TRACKING, STABILIZING AND KEYING

  • Creating track points with the Tracker
  • Important tracker options
  • Applying stabilization
  • Fixing bad tracks and using the Smoother
  • Motion tracking in AfterEffects
  • Applying tracking to applied effects
  • Keying using the Keylight effect
  • Improving keyed composites
  • Creating Garbage Mattes

RENDERING AND OUTPUT

  • More about the Render Queue and Rendering
  • Adjusting the Render Settings
  • Using Output Module options and presets
  • Best practices for rendering output
  • Working with video for HD formats, web video and You-Tube
  • Transport vs Authoring video formats

USING PAINT AND VECTOR PAINT

  • Basic painting
  • Animating strokes
  • Revealing a layer
  • Cloning Tool
  • Transforming strokes
  • Vector Paint overview
  • Wiggle controls and making animations

MANIPULATING SHAPE LAYERS

  • Creating a Shape layer
  • Shape Stroke and Fill settings
  • Editing shapes
  • Multiple shapes
  • Shape Effects
  • Advanced Strokes

3D EDITING TOOLS INTRODUCTION

  • Creating Lights
  • Creating Cameras and manipulating
  • Toggling 3D layers
  • Using the Unified Camera Tool
  • Animating 3D objects
  • 3D Resources

SPECIALIZED TOOLS

  • Using Brainstorm
  • Brainstorm with keyframes
  • Puppet Pin tool
  • Animating Puppet pins
  • Puppet Overlap tool
  • Recording Puppet Animation
  • Encore Essential Toolsets
  • Encore and AfterEffects Dynamic Link demonstration
  • SoundBooth demonstration

RESOURCES

  • Third-party Effects
  • Stock video resources
  • Tutorials and other resource
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