Adobe After Effects is beloved by its users. It allows users to create compelling
motion graphics and visual effects, to animate, alter, and composite media in 2D and 3D. Its power is simply awesome.
In this course, we`ll demonstrate professional workflows and inspire you with practical lessons that ensure you
remember the lessons learned.
After Effects 3 days | $1295 + HST
This three-day course is for people who want to create motion graphics and visual effects with Adobe After Effects CC. Prerequisite: Final Cut Pro course or equivallent experience with editing footage.
- importing media
- browsing media using Bridges
- importing from Premiere Pro
- the project window
- data management
- compositions
- transformation properties
- animation (getting started)
- managing key frames, curves, roving and exponential
- motion paths & velocity
- position, scale and rotation
- transparency
- auto-orientation
- mastering anchor points
- motion sketch and the wiggler
- layer window
- layer styles (from Photophop and directly in After Effects)
- sequence layering and editing tools
- time remapping (reverse, play-back, stretch and speed-up)
- masking and rotoscoping
- feather edge tool and masking properties
- track mattes, inverted track mattes and transfer modes
- nesting and precomposing
- collapsing transformations
- basic effects and broadcast requirements
- adjustment layers
- color and density adjustments
- applying effects on solid layers
- compound effects (displacement maps)
- applying preset effects
- browsing trough preset effects proxies
- creating custom presets and saving them
- shape layers and shape tools
- 3-D basic transformations
- advanced compositing in Ray-traced 3D
- basic motion tracking (2 points) and warp stabilizer
- advanced motion tracking (3 and 4 points)
- 3D camera trackers and shadow catchers
- basic text animators
- advanced text animators and wiggly selectors
- shaping text on a path or a mask shape
- converting text to layer shapes in 3D
- auto-trace
- basic audio tools and filters
- converting audio to key frames (animating with audio waveforms)
- keying with Keylight (green and blue screen)
- refining edges with keying tools (matte choker, spill suppressor).
- other keying tools (extract, channel shift, difference matte, color key)
- effect generators (particle playground, foam, card-dance).
- importing from Illustrator and Photoshop including layer styles
- modeling generators (glue gun, wave-world, mercury)
- 3D bevel and other geometry options
- 3D lighting and material options
- 3D cameras and variable depth of field
- environment layers
- working in 32 bit depth color space (cinema look)
- exporting projects (frame rate, aspect ratio, interlacing, 3-2 pull down)
- archiving projects
