Advanced Adobe After Effects Training: $895
Course Description
This 2 day advanced class is instructor led by an After Effects Adobe Certified trainer, with students learning how to use Adobe After Effects to it’s full potential. Best practices, as well as shortcuts, are emphasised. See outline below for details.
Course Outline
Overview of Features
- Finding ways to speed up previews
- Using different resolutions
Advanced Layer Techniques
- Using the Interpret footage dialog effectively
- Parent and child relationships
- Using Null layers
- Understanding the Anchor Point
- Using different blending modes
Advanced Text Animation
- Using the Puppet tool
Working with Compositions
- The Composition Navigator
- The Composition Mini Flowchart
- Save Ram Preview
- Pre- composing layers
- Rendering order issues
Using Masks
- Animating masks
- Using stencils and silhouettes
- Using RotoBezier masks
- Auto-tracing alpha channels
- Importing masks from Photoshop
- Creating Track mattes
- Using Keylight for Bluescreen and Greenscreen mattes
Compositing
- Adjustment effects & colour correction
- Channel effects
- Auto-tracing Movies
- Effect Generators
- Fractal Noise
- Radio Waves
- Lightning
- Shatter
- Keying tools
- Matte Tools
Effects for Colour Treatment and Correction
- colourama
- Echo
- Glow
- Change to colour
- Miscellaneous effects
- Working with Proxies
Time- Based Effects
- Slow motion techniques / stop frames
- Time stretching, ramping and blending
- Animating footage to audio
Tracking
- Motion tracking
- Motion stabilisation
- Image stabilisation
- Using colour keying
- Using the Difference Matte effectively
- Using a Garbage Matte
- Using Vector Paint
Working in 3D Space
- Creating a layer in 3D space
- 3D text animations
- Understanding the limitations of 2D planes in 3D space
- Using lights and cameras
- Using Nulls to control layers
Using Expressions
- Basic Expression commands
- Linking properties together
- Applying simple arithmetic
- Randomising properties
- Looping and controlling time
- Working with variables
- Controlling ranges
- Using Math functions
Paint
- Repairing images and movies
- Stop-frame animation techniques
- Write-on text effects and other tricks
More Effects
- Distortion effects (Warping, Morphing, Reshaping etc)
- Using Masks with effects
- Particles in depth
- Compound effects (Compound Blur; Displacement Mapping)
Rendering Comps
- The different Codecs in Quicktime
- Rendering effectively and quickly
- Understanding field order
- Rendering using Alpha channels
- Rendering to create a comp proxy
Using Sound in After Effects
- Adding and previewing sound
- Using sound markers to synchronise action
Exporting from After Effects
- Creating PDF video files
- Exporting After Effects projects to Flash using XFL
- Easy output to multiple formats
- Adding rendered footage to a project
| SYDNEY | January | February | March | April | May | June |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After Effects Essentials | 30 & 31 | 23 & 24 | ||||
| After Effects Advanced | — | — | 5 & 6 | — | 24 & 25 | — |
| MELBOURNE | January | February | March | April | May | June |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After Effects Essentials | — | 7 & 8 | — | — | 7 & 8 | — |
| After Effects Advanced | — | 9 & 10 | — | — | 28 & 29 | — |
| BRISBANE | January | February | March | April | May | June |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After Effects Essentials | — | — | 15 & 16 | — | — | — |
| After Effects Advanced | Currently not available as a public course in Brisbane. Private training can be organised onsite. | |||||
