Adobe After Effects Course | Adobe After Effects Courses

Introduction

Individuals will become familiar with the After Effects interface, learning to create animations, work with layers, apply effects, work with masks and mattes, use colour effectively and export files.

Who Should Attend

• Individuals who wish to work in the video field or who currently work in the field, or an Adobe application user looking to expand their skills, adding effects to video projects.
• Some individuals 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.
• Recommended for those new to Adobe After Effects.

Course Content

After Effects User Interface and Animation

• What is a project file and what is in it?
• Tools and Panels

Basic Animation

• Transform properties of layers
• Key framing

Intermediate Animation

• In-depth key frame manipulation & interpolation
• Graph Editor
• Motion Sketch/Smoother
• Auto-Orient/Motion Blur
• Roving Key frames
• Anchor Point/Pan behind Tool

Layer Control

• Trim-move-stack-split
• Slip Tool
• Sequence Layers
• Solo Switches
• Looping Footage
• Image Sequences
• Frame Rate vs Time Stretch
• Blending Modes
• Effects & Solids with Blending Modes
• Effects & Pre-sets Panel

Transparency

• Masks
• Shape
• Feather
• Expansion
• Masking with the Pen Tool

Type and Titles

• Simple rules of titling
• Basic text

Nesting

• Precomps
• Editing Precomps
• Locking panels

Render Order

• How After Effects puts it all together
• Exporting files
• Render Queue
• Export As/Same Frame As/Pre-render