Adobe After Effects

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This 3-day course will take you from absolute basics to rendering out your creations. You will create simple animations, puppet illustrations and come to understand core concepts.

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Course Outline / Curriculum:

Getting to Know the Workflow:

  • Getting started

  • Creating a project and importing footage

  • Creating a composition and arranging layers

  • Adding effects and modifying layer properties

  • Animating the composition

  • Previewing your work

  • Optimizing performance in After Effects

  • Rendering and exporting your composition

  • Customizing workspaces

  • Controlling the brightness of the user interface

  • Finding resources for using After Effects

  • Review questions

  • Review answers

  • 2 Creating a Basic Animation Using Effects and Presets

 

Getting started:

  • Importing footage using Adobe Bridge

  • Creating a new composition

  • Working with imported Illustrator layers

  • Applying effects to a layer

  • Applying an animation preset

  • Previewing the effects

  • Adding transparency

  • Rendering the composition

  • Review questions

  • Review answers

 

Animating Text:

  • Getting started

  • About text layers

  • Installing a font using Adobe Fonts

  • Creating and formatting point text

  • Using a text animation preset

  • Animating with scale keyframes

  • Animating using parenting

  • Animating imported Photoshop text

  • Animating type tracking

  • Animating text opacity

  • Using a text animator group

  • Animating a layer’s position

  • Timing layer animations

  • Adding motion blur

  • Review questions

  • Review answers

 

Working with Shape Layers:

  • Getting started

  • Creating the composition

  • Adding a shape layer

  • Applying a fill and stroke

  • Creating a self-animating shape

  • Duplicating a shape

  • Creating custom shapes

  • Positioning layers with snapping

  • Snapping layers into position

  • Animating a shape

  • Animating fill color

  • Creating nulls from paths

  • Drawing curved shapes with the Pen tool

  • Using nulls to connect points

  • Previewing the composition

  • Review questions

  • Review answers

 

Animating a Multimedia Presentation:

  • Getting started

  • Adjusting anchor points

  • Parenting layers

  • Precomposing layers

  • Keyframing a motion path

  • Animating additional elements

  • Applying an effect

  • Animating precomposed layers

  • Animating the background

  • Adding an audio track

  • Review questions

  • Review answers

 

Animating Layers:

  • Getting started

  • Simulating lighting changes

  • Duplicating an animation using the pick whip

  • Animating movement in the scenery

  • Adjusting the layers and creating a track matte

  • Animating the shadows

  • Adding a lens flare effect

  • Adding a video animation

  • Rendering the animation

  • Retiming the composition

  • Review questions

  • Review answers

 

Working with Masks:

  • About masks

  • Getting started

  • Creating a mask with the Pen tool

  • Editing a mask

  • Feathering the edges of a mask

  • Replacing the content of the mask

  • Adding a reflection

  • Creating a vignette

  • Adjusting the timing

  • Trimming the work area

  • Review questions

  • Review answers

 

Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools:

  • Getting started

  • About the Puppet tools

  • Adding Position pins

  • Adding Advanced and Bend pins

  • Stiffening an area

  • Animating pin positions

  • Using the Puppet tools to animate video

  • Recording animation

  • Review questions

  • Review answers

 

Using the Roto Brush Tool:

  • About rotoscoping

  • Getting started

  • Creating a segmentation boundary

  • Fine-tuning the matte

  • Freezing your Roto Brush tool results

  • Changing the background

  • Adding animated text

  • Outputting your project

  • Review questions

  • Review answers

 

Performing Color Correction:

  • Getting started

  • Adjusting color balance with levels

  • Adjusting color with the Lumetri Color effect

  • Replacing the background

  • Color-correcting using Auto Levels

  • Motion tracking the clouds

  • Replacing the sky in the second clip

  • Color grading

  • Review questions

  • Review answers

 

Creating Motion Graphics Templates:

  • Getting started

  • Preparing a master composition

  • Setting up a template

  • Adding properties to the Essential Graphics panel

  • Providing image options

  • Protecting the timing of a section

  • Exporting the template

  • Review questions

  • Review answers

 

Using 3D Features:

  • Getting started

  • Creating 3D text

  • Using 3D views

  • Importing a background

  • Adding 3D lights

  • Adding a camera

  • Extruding text in After Effects

  • Working with Cinema 4D Lite

  • Integrating the C4D layer in After Effects

  • Finishing the project

  • Review questions

  • Review answers

 

Working with the 3D Camera Tracker:

  • About the 3D Camera Tracker effect

  • Getting started

  • Tracking the footage

  • Creating a ground plane, a camera, and the initial text

  • Creating additional text elements

  • Locking an image to a plane with a solid layer

  • Tidying the composition

  • Adding a final object

  • Creating realistic shadows

  • Adding ambient light

  • Adding an effect

  • Previewing the composition

  • Review questions

  • Review answers

 

Advanced Editing Techniques:

  • Getting started

  • Stabilizing a shot

  • Using single-point motion tracking

  • Using multipoint tracking

  • Creating a particle simulation

  • Retiming playback using the Timewarp effect

  • Review questions

  • Review answers

 

Rendering and Outputting:

  • Getting started

  • About rendering and output

  • Exporting using the Render Queue

  • Creating templates for the Render Queue

  • Rendering movies with Adobe Media Encoder

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