The After Effects Course Bundle

Course

In London and Manchester

£ 645 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Intensive workshop

  • Level

    Beginner

  • Location

    At 2 venues

  • Class hours

    8h

  • Duration

    3 Days

This 3 day After Effects Training Course Bundle includes both the one day Intermediate and Introduction courses booked together and SAVE £100 on the course fees for the Introduction and Intermediate courses when booked separately.

It introduces delegates to the basic concepts of working with Adobe After Effects and aims to give delegates the confidence to begin using the application in a professional environment to produce smooth animation and sophisticated special effects to a more advanced level.

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

- After Effects interface
- Learning to create animations
- Work with layers, apply effects
- Work with masks and mattes
- Use colour effectively
- Export files.

This 3 day After Effects CC Course is suitbale for anyone wishing to work in the broadcast industry, or those who currently do. Other Adobe application users simply looking to expand their skills are also welcome. Some delegates 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. Ultimately, 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.

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.

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Subjects

  • Video Editing
  • Effects
  • Motion graphics
  • Graphics
  • 3D
  • Compositing
  • VFX
  • After Effects training
  • Animation
  • Adobe
  • 3d training

Teachers and trainers (1)

John  Williams

John Williams

Trainer

Course programme

The After Effects Course Bundle (AE102)

Lesson 1: Introduction To The Interface
  • 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 Keyframing

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 text in After Effects
  • Text Paths
  • Using prebuilt 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 wit 3D layers
  • Using the axis and 3D views

Lesson 11: Basics of Motion Tracking
  • The motion tracker
  • Finding a good track point
  • Smoothing

Lesson 12: Exporting
  • The render Queue
  • Output settings
  • File Formats
  • Compression settings

Lesson 13: Improved Animation Techniques
  • Easing Timings
  • Auto orientation
  • Understanding animation rules
  • Using the keyframe graph
  • Using the speed graph to perfect timing
  • Using different types of keyframe
  • Keyframe interpolation
  • Scaling keyframes
Lesson 14: Masking Techniques
  • Animating mask properties
  • Variable width mask feather
  • Working with layers
  • Motion masks
  • Using masks as paths

Lesson 15: Text
  • Adjusting text created in Photoshop and Illustrator
  • Building custom text animations

Lesson 16: More Advanced Puppet Animation

  • Importing from Illustrator and Photoshop
  • Parenting
  • Animation Expressin controllers on null layers
  • Starching
  • Conrolling depth
  • Avoiding the alpha channel limitation


Lesson 17: Better Use of Effects

  • Overview of the main effects
  • Particle generation
  • Simulations
  • Levels and Curves
  • Colour correction
  • Colour matching
  • Colour matching
  • Adjustment layer tips and tricks

Lesson 18: More Sophisticated Keying

  • Introduction to keylight
  • Matte Choker
  • Matte feather
  • Using the tool set to make clean mattes
  • Obsolete and correct keying effect differences


Lesson 19: Compositing & Mattes

  • Channel effects
  • Smart mask Interpolation
  • Using the rotobrush tool
  • Autotracing movies
  • Matte tools
  • Track mattes
  • Layer blending modes


Lesson 20: 3D

  • Working with cameras
  • Workign with lights
  • Mixing layer types



Lesson 21: Motion tracking

  • Stabilising movement and wrap
  • Tracking motion
  • Camera Tracking
  • Exporting track data to Cinema 4D
  • Importing Cinema 4D files and matching layers for CGI


Lesson 22: Expressions

  • Basic expression commands
  • Linking properties together
  • Applying simple arithmetic to expressions
  • Randomising properties
  • Parented expression controllers on Null Object Layers.


Lesson 23: Creative Cloud

  • Incorporating other applications
  • Syncing, storage and Behance

The After Effects Course Bundle

£ 645 + VAT