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After Effects Essentials | Course Overview

Course Description

After Effects allows you to create both stunning and professional motion graphics and visual effects. This course is designed to allow those new to video animation techniques or who are self-taught, to get the most from this immensely powerful software. The emphasis throughout this After Effects course is on getting up-to-speed with the essential functionality of the program and includes many practical exercises along with countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive.

Course Overview

Key topics include incorporating video with Photoshop and Illustrator graphics, video layering techniques, using 3D features, animating text, working with key frames, using filters for special effects and rendering your final project for broadcast, HD or the web. Courses are available for both CS6 and CS5 versions.

The training is conducted by one of the few Adobe Certified After Effects instructors in Australia, who is also Adobe Premiere Certified and an Apple Final Cut Pro Certified trainer with extensive industry experience in editing and animation techniques.

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After Effects Essentials | Outline

Introduction

  • Video Terminology
  • TV Broadcast standards
  • Pixel aspect ratios
  • Common DV Codecs
  • SMPTE timecode

Importing Footage

  • Importing layers from Photoshop & Illustrator
  • Continuous rasterize
  • Looping video footage
  • Interpreting footage
  • Exercise Importing

Starting a Project

  • The Composition window
  • Using the Project window
  • Working with layers over time
  • Animating layers independently
  • Trimming and moving layers
  • Changing playback speed and direction
  • Applying effects
  • Exercise Workflow

Understanding Key Frames

  • Transform Properties
  • Creating Keyframes
  • Copying and pasting key frames
  • Spatial and temporal interpolation
  • Key frame assistants
  • Time reverse key framing
  • Simultaneously editing keyframes
  • Graph editor
  • Exercise Keyframing

Linking Methods in After Effects

  • Parent/child relationships
  • Pre-Compose/nesting
  • Duplicating layers and comps
  • Exercise Parenting/Precomposing

Working with Effects

  • Applying effects
  • Animating effects
  • Using adjustment layers
  • Solid layers
  • Vignettes
  • Exercise Effects

Working with Text

  • Composing text
  • Text Layout
  • Animating text
  • Browsing, applying and saving animation presets
  • Adding Layer styles to text
  • Exercise Text Animation

Introduction to Using Mattes

  • Creating Track mattes
  • Alpha Channels
  • Exercise Track mattes/Alpha Channels

Using Masks

  • Drawing mask shape
  • Using stencils and silhouettes
  • Using RotoBezier masks
  • Exercise Masks

Keying Techniques (green screen)

  • Understanding the Keying workflow
  • Matte chocker
  • Channel Blur
  • Using Keylight
  • Exercise Chroma Key

Motion Tracking

  • Tracking moving footage
  • Track Transform, Perspective corner pin
  • Tracking effects
  • Motion stabilization
  • Exercise motion tracking

Time Stretching - Speed Change

  • Controlling speed over time
  • Time remapping
  • Reverse speed
  • Frame Blending/pixel motion
  • TimeWarp
  • Exercise Time Remapping

Puppet Pin Tool

  • Puppet pin
  • Overlap & Starch tool
  • Exercise puppet tool

Shape Tools

  • Drawing and Animating Shapes
  • Adding Animators to Shapes
  • Brainstorm
  • Exercise shape layers

Introduction to Working in 3D Space

  • Creating a layer in 3D space
  • 3D text animation
  • Understanding the Camera controls
  • Exercise 3D layers

Final Rendering - Saving Your Work

  • Adding your project to the render Queue
  • Setting render settings for multiple output
  • Understanding video Formats
  • Exercise Rendering
Adobe After Effects Essentials Course
SYDNEY
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After Effects Essentials 24 & 25 22 & 23 14 & 15 10 & 11 9 & 10 13 & 14
After Effects Advanced 24 25 15
MELBOURNE
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After Effects Essentials 6 & 7 18 & 19 29 & 30 10 & 11 14 & 15
After Effects Advanced 21 5 8
BRISBANE
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After Effects Essentials 24 & 25 22 & 23
After Effects Advanced 26
CANBERRA
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After Effects Essentials Available as custom training only.
After Effects Advanced Available as custom training only.

After Effects Essentials | Testimonials

"Ben was very thorough in making sure everyone in the class understood each of the steps. He has a wealth of information that he is willing to share, and I found the course very productive in learning a new software program."

"The course provides a very good overview of the software and is an excellent introduction for people wanting to move on to the advanced course."

"As always, the perfect combination of fun and education, a great way to unlock the mysteries of After Effects. Keep up the good work!!"

"Great course - great teacher. Would highly recommend."

"Really happy with the way the course was conducted. Ben's presentation and delivery was excellnet."

"Very thorough - thanks! The book will be a handy resource, too."

"Antony was great and easy to understand. Looking forward to using the skills learnt."

"The After Effects training course was incredibly helpful and I will certainly use what I learned at work."

"I felt like it covered alot of stuff in the two days, I was really unsure if I should do the course or not or if I could I learn the program on my own, I am so glad that I did do it and have learnt way more in a short amount of time and I think it's a great idea that you can re-sit within six months just so you can make sure you really understand everything you have learnt."

"The course was fantastic."

"Very interesting and enlightening course."

"Excellent course!"

"Very good class. Nice working environment. Good range of topics covered."

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