The Intermediate After Effects Course

Course

In Manchester and London

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£ 250 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Intensive workshop

  • Level

    Intermediate

  • Location

    At 2 venues

  • Class hours

    8h

  • Duration

    1 Day

This 1 day Intermediate After Effects Training Course takes trainees beyond the basic concepts of working with Adobe After Effects and will introduce trainees to the more advanced features of After Effects CC, including Expressions and Advanced 3D.

This After Effects course will unlock some of the more advanced features available in After Effects CC. It's a perfect compliment to our introduction course, and when booked together you SAVE £100.

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

- Advanced animation
- Expressions
- Advanced 3D
- Camera and motion tracking for 3D model import/export
- Use colour effectively
- Creative Cloud syncing and crossflow working methodology

This course is for people with some experience of After Effects who wish to employ more advanced techniques.

Students should have the following prerequisite knowledge prior to attending the course:

- A workable knowledge of After Effects equaling at least 80% of our Fundamentals course.
- Experience with the Macintosh operating system.

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 you will also learn what you need from the course, but 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

  • Colour Grading
  • Film Restoration
  • Video Editing
  • After Effects training
  • Animation
  • 3d training
  • 3D
  • Broadcast
  • Motion graphics
  • TV production

Teachers and trainers (1)

John  Williams

John Williams

Trainer

Course programme

Lesson 1: 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 2: Masking Techniques
  • Animating mask properties
  • Variable width mask feather
  • Working with layers
  • Motion masks
  • Using masks as paths

Lesson 3: Text
  • Adjusting text created in Photoshop and illustrator
  • Building custom text animators

Lesson 4: More Advanced Puppet Animation
  • Importing from illustrator and photoshop
  • Animation expression controllers on null layers
  • Starching
  • Controlling depth
  • Avoiding the alpha channel limitation

Lesson 5: Better Use of Effects
  • Overview of the main effects
  • Particle generation
  • Simulations
  • Levels and Curves
  • Colour correction
  • Colour matching
  • Adjustment layer tips and tricks

Lesson 6: More Sophisticated Keying
  • Introduction to keylight
  • Matte choker
  • Matte feather
  • Using the tool set to make clean mattes
  • Obsolete and current keying effect differences

Lesson 7: Compositing & Mattes
  • Channel effects
  • Smart mask interpolation
  • Using the rotobrush tool
  • Autotracing movies
  • Matte tools
  • Track mattes
  • Layer blending modes

Lesson 8: 3D
  • Working with cameras
  • Working with lights
  • Mixing layer types

Lesson 9: Motion Tracking
  • Stabilising movement and warp
  • Tracking motion
  • Camera Tracking
  • Exporting track data to Cinema 4D

Lesson 10: Expressions
  • Basic expression commands
  • Linking properties together
  • Applying simple arithmetic to expressions
  • Randomising properties
  • Parented expression controllers on Null Object Layers

Lesson 11: Creative Cloud
  • Incorporating other applications
  • Syncing
  • Storage

Additional information

SAVE 10 - 30%
The further in advance you book, the higher the savings.
0-29 days in advance: 0%
30-59 days in advance: 10%
60-89 days in advance: 20%
90+ days in advance: 30%

The Intermediate After Effects Course

£ 250 + VAT