The Advanced After Effects Course

Course

In Manchester and London

£ 495 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Intensive workshop

  • Level

    Advanced

  • Location

    At 2 venues

  • Class hours

    8h

  • Duration

    2 Days

This in-depth 2 day Advanced After Effects Course fully addresses the complexities and sophistication available within After Effects. It teaches, in great detail, real life tips and tricks that will greatly enhance your working knowledge of the software. The course predominantly focuses on working with Effects, 3D and Expressions, although other topics will be covered, with an emphasis on using the features in creative and interesting ways.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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69 Wells Street, W1T 3QB

Start date

On request
Manchester (Greater Manchester)
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Thorp Road, M40 5BJ

Start date

On request

About this course

- Time based Effects
- Advanced Expressions
- Advanced Effects
- Advanced 3D

This 2-day advanced After Effects CC Course is suitable for anyone who already has some experience of working with After Effects and wishes to expand their skills beyond the core fundamentals to develop their video production capabilities. This course is not suited to new users of After Effects.

Experience of Macintosh operating system and has previous experience working with After Effects or previous attendance of our Comprehensive Introduction to After Effects training course.

- Mac OS X knowledge
- Comprehensive Introduction to After Effects CC course or the equivalent experience.

Whilst there is no Adobe certification for this course, our trainers are industry-experienced Adobe Certified Instructors and Soho Editors is an Authorised Adobe Training Partner. Additionally, the course is based upon Adobe’s CIAB guidelines, so you will receive a certificate from Soho Editors upon completion of the course.

We offer a no quibble Satisfaction Guarantee. We are so sure that not only will you enjoy the experience, as well as learn what you need from the course, that if you are not satisfied we will give you the same course again FREE of charge, it’s as simple as that, no argument*.

We are very proud to be recognised by so many of the world's leading post production software manufacturers for consistently high standards and customer satisfaction.

Through our manufacturer accreditation we are able to offer a full range of quality assessed certified courses, however we have also developed our own industry specific courses designed to release the creative person inside.

We can also fully bespoke and tailor any course to your liking. Take a look at our bespoke training section.

We are the preferred training provider for many leading media organisations including Viacom, ITV, BBC, Channel Five, Channel 4, BSkyB, Wall to Wall, Nomura Bank, to name but a few.

The professional courses we run are usually Manufacturer Certified - the ones that aren't are still Industry Approved. This means that you will get certification or experience with the relevant manufacturer or software and proving your level of expertise if you pass the exam.

You can be assured of training to the highest possible standard, with your trainer being a qualified expert with significant current experience both professionally and as a trainer.

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Subjects

  • Video Editing
  • Effects
  • Advanced Editing
  • After Effects training
  • 3d training
  • 3D
  • VFX
  • Motion graphics
  • Media
  • Broadcast

Teachers and trainers (1)

John  Williams

John Williams

Trainer

Course programme

The Advanced After Effects Course Outline (AE300)

Lesson 1 Time Based Effects
  • Slow motion techniques and stop frames
  • time stretching ramping and blending
  • complex time remaps
  • custom motion blur.

Lesson 2 Paint
  • Repairing images and movies
  • painting on the matte
  • stop frame animation techniques
  • write on text effects and other paint tricks

Lesson 3 Advanced Compositing
  • Understanding how channels really work
  • Using larger bit depths
  • Techniques for making a better composite
  • Light wrapping
  • Simulating light effects such as specular bloom

Lesson 4 Intermediate 3D
  • Animating in 3D space
  • Independent axis keyframing
  • tricks with lights, tricks with cameras
  • Constructing a camera rig
  • Simulating reflections

Lesson 5 Advance 3D
  • Building 3D models and shapes
  • ray-traced, extruded text and shapes
  • bending 2D layers in 3D
  • 3D environment maps
  • compositing multi-pass renders from 3D applications

Lesson 6 Advanced motion Tracking & Image Stabilisation
  • Using and linking track data
  • stabilising shaky footage
  • perspective corner pinning
  • exploring the 3D camera tracker
  • Using Mocha to create a track
  • Transfer of data from mocha to AE
  • Using the Mocha to AE plugin

Lesson 7 Advanced Expressions
  • Expression controls
  • looping and controlling time
  • working with variables
  • controlling ranges
  • using maths functions
  • Expressions in 3D space
  • remapping values
  • animating using only expressions
  • Creating complex expressions easily
  • Using audio expressions to control animation

Lesson 8 Advanced Effects
  • Effects for colour treatment and correction
  • effect generators
  • exploring new uses for effects
  • using masks with effects
  • external effects and plug-ins
  • Trapcode suite
  • 3D remapping plug-ins

The Advanced After Effects Course

£ 495 + VAT