Adobe After Effects Live Training Course

This After Effects training course is your fast track to becoming an Adobe certified video editor. You'll start by learning how to use the After Effects interface before diving into animation, layers, effects, and more. After that, you'll learn how to animate text layers, key, deal with 3D, and manage your projects.

There’s nothing you can’t create with After Effects.

Create film titles, intros, and transitions that are cinematic. Remove a clip's object. Make it rain or light a fire. Make a logo or a character move. In a 3D space, you can even navigate and design. You can make any idea move using After Effects, the industry-standard motion graphics and visual effects software.

Add exciting effects.

Modify the setting of a scenario. Include a moving element in your scene. Make precise color tweaks or transform surfaces for fun. To rapidly bring your movies to life, choose from hundreds of presets and effects.

Get animated.

With keyframes or expressions, you can make anything move. Alternatively, start your creations with presets for a distinct look.

Roll credits. Spin words. Twirl titles.

Titles, credits, and lower thirds for animated sequences. Start from the beginning or use the app's presets. Your text moves around, from spin to swipe to slide.

Objectives

Because it's crucial to start with the basics, you'll learn how to navigate the After Effects interface before diving into animation, layers, and effects. You'll be ready to move on to more complex capabilities like animating text layers, keying, and dealing with 3D after that.

This course will be given using our Accelerated Learning technique, which allows you to acquire more knowledge in less time.

Target Audience

This course is for designers, marketers, developers, and anybody else who wants to improve their motion graphics and visual effects skills.

Upon completion, you'll be able to:

    • Navigate the After Effects interface and understand the both the core and specialist features
    • Implement basic and intermediate level animations to your video content
    • Master layer control, how to manage effects within layers and even adjustment within your layers
    • Export your files efficiently, add to the render and Adobe media encoder queues
    • Animate text layers, vector paths and master masks and shapes
    • Utilise 3D layers, the 3D axis and integration with cinema 4D
    • Integrate with other Adobe tools and be able to implement project management best practices within After Effects

 

Adobe After Effects Course

User interface and animation

  • What is a project file and what is in it?
  • Tools and panels
  • Creating a composition
  • Importing media into a project

Basic animation

    • Adding layers to a composition
    • Navigating the timeline
    • Transform properties of layers
    • Keyframing layer properties
    • RAM preview

Intermediate animation

    • In-depth keyframe manipulation & interpolation
    • Graph editor
    • Motion sketch/smoother
    • Auto-orient/motion blur
    • Roving keyframes
    • Anchor point/pan behind tool

Layer control

    • Trim-move-stack-split
    • Sequence layers
    • Looping footage
    • Image sequences
    • Frame rate vs time stretch
    • Blending modes
    • Effects and solids
    • Blending modes
    • Layer styles
    • Masks

Transparency

    • Opacity
    • Masks
    • Shape
    • Feather
    • Expansion
    • Masking with the pen tool
    • Track mattes

Effects

    • Effects and presets panel
    • Applying effects to layers
    • Modifying effects using the effects control panel
    • Animating effects
    • Changing order of effects
    • Using adjustment layers

The text tool

    • Using the text tool
    • Animating text
    • Text animation presets

Render order

    • How After Effects puts it together
    • Exporting files
    • Add to render queue
    • Add to Adobe Media Encoder queue

Animating text layers

    • Animating text along a path
    • Text animators
    • Animating individual characters
    • Range selectors
    • Advanced range selector features
    • Wiggly selector

Nesting and dependancies

    • Precomps
    • Editing precomps
    • Locking panels
    • Using null objects

Animation and keyframes

  • Different types of keyframe
  • Velocity
  • Keyframe shortcuts
  • Keyframe graph editor
  • Proportional adjustment
  • Snapping to keyframes
  • Keyframe assistants
  • Easy ease
  • Time revers keyframes
  • Animation and behaviour presets
  • Keyframe interpolation

Masks and shapes

  • Creating masks
  • Importing masks from Illustrator
  • Animating masks
  • Shape layers
  • Shape layer modifiers
  • Repeater

Path animation

  • Animating along a vector path
  • Auto orient to the path
  • Creating a path from a nomination path
  • Stroke a path
  • Scribble in a path
  • Other path effects

Generator effects

  • Radio waves
  • Particle effects

More on effects

  • Production bundle effects round-up
  • Compound effects

Keying

  • Using keylight
  • Using the roto brush
  • Simple wire removal

Time and tracking

  • Time re-mapping
  • Time warp
  • Motion tracking
  • Tracking faces
  • Perspective corner pinning
  • 3D camera tracking

Working with 3D

  • Understanding 3D
  • 3D Layers
  • The 3D axis
  • Cameras
  • Lights
  • The unified camera tool
  • Integration with Cinema 4D

Adobe and NLE integration

  • Integration with Premiere Pro
  • Working with Photoshop
  • Working with Illustrator

Project management

  • Collect files
  • Consolidate footage
  • Remove unused footage
  • Reduce project
  • Advanced ‘Rendering-render farm concept’
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