After Effects

Whether you are in the social media and marketing space, motion graphics designer, a web designer, rich media artist or video editor, Adobe After Effects allows you to create stunning motion graphics and visual effects.

Up your skills from the basic through to advanced animation techniques, Text animations, Motion effects, Track mattes, Nesting, Precompose, 3D cameras & Lighting and other with Labspace.

Labspace is an Adobe Authorised Training Centre with Adobe Certified Trainer Ced Robertson, who has over 20 years industry experience, including time working and training in the broadcast industry, as your instructor.

Course includes:

As an Adobe Authorised Training Centre – participants receive upon course completion a Certificate endorsed by Adobe.

Overview:

This two day Adobe After Effects course is designed to allow those new to post production to get the most from this immensely powerful software. The emphasis throughout this After Effects course is on practical exercises.

These exercises will cover incorporating video with Photoshop and Illustrator graphics, video layering techniques, using effects, working in a 3D environment and rendering a finished production for broadcast, HD or the web.

Course Outline:

Introduction to the Interface

•Panel, Groups of Panels and floating Panels

•Default and custom Workspaces

•Create your own awesome workspace

•Must know Preferences

Importing footage:

•Movies

•Photoshop files

•Handling audio

•Looping video footage

•Illustrator integration

•Interpreting footage

Animation Essentials:

•Understanding Keyframe interpolation

•Animating Transform properties

•Working with Motion Blur

•Motion tracking

•Using the Wiggle expression

•Parenting

•Modifying layer time properties

•Adjusting Speed and rotation 

•Working with Masks and Mattes

•Creating Masks

•Mask properties

•Working with Layers 

Text:

•Creating and modifying text

•Animating text along a path

•Formatting 

•Using text Presets

•Text animation techniques Parent/child relationships

•Linking parts together using parenting.

•Pre Composing a scene

•Working between compositions 

Shape tools:

•Drawing and Animating Shapes

•Adding Animators to Shapes

•Transforming shape animators 

Effects

•Applying and customising effects

•Animation Presets and masks

•Using Warp Stabiliser to remove jitter

•Using adjustment layers 

•Blending Modes

Rotoscoping:

•Using the Roto Brush tool to create animated mattes

3D and Lighting:

•Introduction to 3D Animation

•Working with 3D layers

•Working with cameras

•Positioning objects in a 3D space

•3D views and axes

•3D Text

•3D lighting

Export:

•The Render Queue

•Output and compression settings

•File formats

•Export for TV, Web and mobile devices

•Adobe Media Encoder