Students will learn more on creating special effects for video and motion graphics.
Target Audience: Graphic and Video professionals who need an essential understanding of video editing, motion editing and compositing. Experienced users will also benefit from many hands-on projects and tricks learnt on the class. No prior experience of After Effects is required. Training available on both Mac and PC.
Detailed Course Outline:
Introduction: Real-World Usage of After Effects
What's Included:
Target Audience: Graphic and Video professionals who need an essential understanding of video editing, motion editing and compositing. Experienced users will also benefit from many hands-on projects and tricks learnt on the class. No prior experience of After Effects is required. Training available on both Mac and PC.
Detailed Course Outline:
Introduction: Real-World Usage of After Effects
- What is After Effects?
- Cloud complete versus standalone plans
- What type of media can it create?
- What kind of media can be imported into After Effects?
- Components of an After Effects file
- After Effects workflow: Best practices
- Media deployment file fomat roundup
- What determines a project’s resolution?
- What determines a project’s frame rate?
- What are best practices regarding graphical and audio assets?
- What technical specifications must be met?
- About RAM and real-time rendering
- Understanding linked media, and reloading clips
- Setting Preferences and Project Settings
- Creating a project and importing footage
- Creating a Composition and arranging layers
- Adding effects and modifying layer properties
- Animating a Composition
- Working with the Time Controls Panel
- Working with Switches and Modes in the Timeline
- Creating rendering presets, and rendering a Composition
- Customizing the After Effects Workspace
- Working with imported Illustrator layers
- Creating text
- Applying text animation presets
- Applying effects to layers
- Previewing effects
- Nesting and pre-composing
- Adding transparency
- Title design: Adding text layers
- Creating and formatting text
- Using text animation presets
- Animating with keyframes
- Keyframe interpolation basics
- Animating using parenting
- Converting imported Photoshop text
- Animating text using a path animation preset
- Animating type tracking
- Animating text opacity
- Using a text animator group
- Converting path points to positional keyframes
- Auto-orienting a layer along a motion path
- Adding motion blur
- Rendering a Composition
- Differences between shape and mask layers
- Adding a shape layer
- Creating and animating shapes
- Using Repeaters
- Incorporating video and audio layers
- Applying a Cartoon effect
- Adding a title bar
- Rendering a Composition using the AME
- Adjusting layer anchor points
- Masking video using vector shapes
- Applying self-generating effects
- Creating an animated slide show
- Mixing audio track levels
- Understanding alpha channels, masks, mattes, and keying
- Importing masks from Photoshop
- Animating masks
- Exploring keyframe interpolation with the Graph Editor
- Creating Animation Presets
- Creating and editing masks in After Effects
- Feathering the edges of a mask
- Using the Mask Feather Tool
- Applying blend modes
- Creating a vignette
- Color correction basics
- Manipulating 2D text and objects in 3D space
- Creating and shading extruded 3D text
- Animating 3D text
- Multiple scene Views
- Applying lights to 3D layers
- Shading and shadowing layers
- Animating light and Materials properties
- Third-party 3D plug-ins
- Replacing a background
- Using the Clone Tool to remove unwanted elements
- Correcting a color range
- Warming colors with the Photo Filter effect
- Testing for final Renders and Exports
- Understanding video and audio compression
- Rendering in After Effects’ Render Queue
- Rendering in the Adobe Media Encoder
- Creating Render templates
- Rendering and Exporting to a variety of media types:
- High-resolution recompositing
- DVD-VWeb video
- YouTubeMobile devices
- Web video
- Switching camera perspectives
- Working with multiple views
- Adding and animating lights
- Adding and animating cameras
- Interpolating camera motion
- Cutting between multiple cameras
- Working with Cinema 4D Lite in After Effects
- Adapting complex masks
- Positioning and scaling complex mask elements
- Feathering complex masks
- Animating complex masks
- Rotoscoping with the Roto Brush Tool
- Creating and refining Roto Brush segmentation boundaries
- Freezing and unfreezing Roto Brush segments
- Understanding blue and green screen keys
- Creating garbage mattes
- Refining mattes and masks
- Using the Keylight effect
- Using the standard Color Key effect
- Applying Particle Simulation effects
- Adjusting birth rate, longevity, and other effect properties
- Adding additional effects
- Compositing Particle Simulations
- Using the Timewarp effect to retime video
- Establishing keyframes to control speed
- Using the Graph Editor to adjust fast, slow, and reverse motion
- Understanding the Paint tools
- Modifying and saving custom Brushes
- Creating Brush strokes
- Animating strokes
- Rotoscoping with brush strokes
- Animating with the Eraser tool
- Duplicating video with the Clone tool
- About the Puppet Tools
- Adding Deform pins
- Stiffening with the Starch Tool
- Animating pin positions
- Using the Warp Stabilizer VFX feature
- Customizing Warp Stabilizer VFX settings
- Using the Track Motion panel
- Applying single-point motion tracking
- Working with track points
- Appying multipoint tracking
- Creating motion tracking by applying Mocha planar data
- Writing Expressions
- Pick Whip Expressions
- Tracking footage
- Creating text and shadows
- Adding ambient lightLocking layers to planes with null objects
- Adjusting Camera depth of field
- Simulating Time-lapse photography
- Manipulating light over time
- Duplicating an animation using the pick whip
- Creating a track matte
- Animating shadows
- Adding a lens flare effect
- Applying Time Remapping keyframes
- Customizing Time Remapping keyframe values
What's Included:
- Adobe After Effect Training Manual
- Adobe Certificate of Course Completion
- 6 Months Free Repeat Policy