After Effects CC Getting Started
Short course
Online
Description
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Type
Short course
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Level
Beginner
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Methodology
Online
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Duration
2 Days
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Personal tutor
Yes
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Virtual classes
Yes
After Effects CC Getting Started is a 2 day live online course, which covers all the basic functionality of Adobe After Effects and is taught by an experienced instructor with many years experience on the product.
About this course
Over two days you will learn how to navigate the After Effects interface. You will create your first animation using keyframing, learning all sorts of techniques along the way such as masking, parenting, and working with precomps as well as lots more.
This course is aimed at users who are new to Adobe After Effects or have relatively little experience with the product. Attendees often include people looking to create more engaging video content for social media and corporate websites as well as elearning content and other visual communications.
You should be computer literate, and comfortable with standard operating system functionality such as copy and paste or opening new files. As the course is a live online course, you will need a machine with After Effects installed, and a stable internet connection. For the best experience we also recommend a headset and a second monitor, although the course can be completed without these.
This course is taught on the latest version of After Effects by an expert instructor with over 20 years experience on Adobe technologies.
Upon receiving your request you will be contact by one of our training advisors, who will be able to answer any questions you have. They will advise on upcoming course dates, as well as other options such as private team training if appropriate.
The course runs as a regular scheduled live online course, meaning you can attend from your own desk, whilst getting a fully interactive experience in which you can chat with the instructor. It can also be delivered as a private course for groups, either online or face to face.
Yes, we offer private courses either face to face or live online. These are popular for small teams of between 3 and 10 people.
Yes, you will receive a certificate of completion to confirm you have undertaken the course.
Reviews
Subjects
- After Effects training
- Adobe
- After Effects course
- Video animation course
- Motion graphics animation
Teachers and trainers (1)
Andy Gardiner
Adobe Certified Instructor and MD
Andy has run Highlander for over 25 years and is an Adobe Certified Instructor, Adobe Certified Design Master, CompTIA Certified Technical Trainer and In5 Certified Professional. He specialises in delivering courses at all levels on tools including Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere Pro and After Effects. In recent years Andy has delivered courses for staff from organisations including Burberry, Manchester City FC, Joe Browns, Mishcon de Reya, Bank of England, Aviva, Lloyds Banking Group, LNER, Eversheds, Interflora and a range of NHS, Police and Government organisations.
Course programme
Preparing your project
- Terminology - Resolution, Frames per second and more
- Storyboarding
- What assets are needed
- What other skills are needed
- What is a project file and what is in it?
- Workspaces
- Tools and Panels
- Importing Media into a Project
- Creating a Composition
- Using the text tool
- Formatting text
- Editing text
- Paragraph and Character panels
- Create shapes from text
- Rectangle, Elipse, Polygon, Star
- The pen tool
- Editing shapes
- Overview of the timeline
- Switches and modes
- Shy layers
- Soloing
- Reordering
- Labels and Markers
- Opacity
- Rotation
- Scale
- Position
- Anchor Point
- What is keyframing
- Applying keyframes
- Adjusting keyframes
- Duplicating keyframes
- Easing
- Motion sketch
- Roving keyframes
- Wiggler
- Motion Blur
- Centering / Moving the anchor point
- Creating Masks
- Creating Track Mattes
- Keyframing masks
- Keyframing track mattes
- Using with Effects
- Time reverse
- Slowing down
- Speeding up
- Colour Correction
- Basic Keying
- Simulating rainfall / snowfall
- Presets
- Modifying Effects using the Effects Control Panel
- Animating Effects
- Using Adjustment Layers
- Dependancies
- Add to Render Queue
- Add to Adobe Media Encoder Queue
Additional information
After Effects CC Getting Started