The Introduction to After Effects Course
Course
In London and Manchester
Description
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Type
Intensive workshop
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Level
Beginner
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Class hours
8h
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Duration
3 Days
This 2 day hands-on Introduction to After Effects Training Course introduces delegates to the basic concepts of working with Adobe After Effects. It aims to give trainees the confidence to begin using After Effects in a professional environment to produce smooth animation and special effects.
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About this course
- After Effects interface
- Learning to create animations
- Work with layers, apply effects
- Work with masks and mattes
- Export files.
Anyone who wishes to work in the video field, or who currently works in the field, or is an Adobe application user looking to expand his or her skills to add special effects to video projects. Some students may be interested mainly in creating video primarily for the Web, and others for film, but the majority are preparing more for work in broadcast video. This course is for people new to After Effects.
Students should have the following prerequisite knowledge prior to attending the course:
- Basic familiarity with a Macintosh operating system is all that is required for this course.
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.
Firstly, we are long established as part of the post-production industry, and therefore have an excellent understanding of the market, and the skills that post-production staff need to have. We are not purely a training company, with other divisions of the group having a huge presence in the industry.
Secondly, unlike a lot of our competitors that provide training to the post-production industry, many of the courses we run are fully approved and certified, and will give you a recognised qualification if you pass the exam (more on this later).
We do not do general training – our courses are all industry specific, and we are experts in this field.
Thirdly, we're situated in the heart of London's post-production district – where better place to train on post-production technology?
Fourthly, the team here is friendly, helpful, efficient, understanding, flexible and approachable, and the trainers, as well as being all of the above, are fully qualified and certified, and all have significant industry experience and kudos as editors / talent in their own right.
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
- After Effects training
- Animation
- 3d training
- Adobe
- 3D
- VFX
- Compositing
- Broadcast
Teachers and trainers (1)
John Williams
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Course programme
Lesson 1 Introduction To The Interface, Set Up & Importing
- Set Up & Importing
- Exploring the interface
- saving window layouts
- importing Media
- organising media
- creating compositions
- Layers, switches and properties.
Lesson 2 Animation Essentials
- Creating keyframes
- Animating properties and effects
- Editing keyframes
- Auto keyframe
Lesson 3 Workflow
- Methods of organising projects.
- Ensuring flexibility in a project.
- Precomposing – when, how and why.
- Parenting.
Lesson 4 Working With Masks
- Creating Masks
- Mask Properties
Lesson 5 Text
- Creating test in After Effects
- Test paths
- Using Pre-built text animators
- Browsing presets in Adobe Bridge
Lesson 6 Shape Layers
- Introduction to shape layers
- Creating custom shapes
Lesson 7 Puppet Tool
- Using the puppet tool to create Motion
- Controlling the distortion Mesh
Lesson 8 Effects
- Applying effects
- Keyframing effects
- Using adjustment layers
Lesson 9 Keying
- Basics of keying
Lesson 10 Introduction to 3D
- Working with 3D layers
- Using the axis and 3D views
Lesson 11 Basics of Motion Tracking
- The motion tracker
- Finding a good track point
- Smoothing
- The render queue
- Output settings, file formats
- Compression settings
The Introduction to After Effects Course