Adobe After Effects Course

This comprehensive masterclass in Adobe After Effects is designed to provide students with a deep understanding of motion graphics, visual effects, and compositing techniques. Through a combination of theoretical knowledge and hands-on practice, students will learn how to create stunning animations, dynamic titles, and immersive visual effects using Adobe After Effects.

Content:

• Fundamentals of Motion Graphics
• RGB Color Model
• Frame Size
• Resolution
• Pixel Aspect Ratio
• Alpha Channels
• Frame Rate
• Time Code
• Interpreting Footage
• Creating a Basic Animation Using Effects
• and Presets
• Importing footage using Adobe Bridge
• Importing video clips
• Importing stills
• Importing a sequence of stills (interpreting)
• Importing multilayered Photoshop and illustrator files
• Creating a new composition
• Applying effects to a layer
• Changing parameters globally
• Creating key frames
• Key frame interpolation: auto, continuous, and Bezier
• interpolation
• Temporal and spatial Interpolation
• Roving in time for spatial properties
• Creating and applying an animation preset
• Previewing your work
• Working with Shape Layers
• Adding a shape layer
• Creating custom shapes
• Creating stars
• Default properties of shape layers
• Add properties
• Creating Groups
• Stack your shapes & properties
• Using Brainstorm to experiment
• Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools
• About the Puppet tools
• Adding Deform pins
• Defining areas of overlap
• Stiffening an area
• Animating pin positions
• Recording animation
• Parenting
• Understanding Parenting
• Simple Pick whipping
• Getting to Know the Workflow
• How after Effects Works
• Overview of panels
• Creating a project and importing footage
• Creating a composition and arranging lavers
• Adding effects and modifying layer properties
• Animating the composition
• Previewing your work
• Optimizing performance in After Effects
• Customizing workspaces
• Controlling the brightness of the user interface
• Finding resources for using After Effects
• Working With Masks
• About masks
• Creating a mask with the Pen tool
• Editing a mask
• Feathering the edges of a mask
• Replacing the content of the mask
• Mask interpolation
• Using masks from Illustrator and Photoshop
• Masks for spatial key frames
• Animating Text
• About text lavers
• Creating and formatting point text vs paragraph text
• Using a text animation preset
• Text on a path
• Animating imported Photoshop text
• Animating text using a path animation preset
• Using a text animators.
• Adding properties
• Adding a range selector
• Using a text animator group
• Other Effects
• Time remapping
• Motion sketch
• The smoother
• The wiggler
• Auto orient
• Splitting a layer
• Adiustment layers
• The effects and presets panel
• Rendering and Output
• Creating templates for the Render Queue
• Exporting using the Render Queue
• Rendering movies with Adobe Media Encoder