Adobe After Effects is beloved by its users. It allows users to create compelling
motion graphics and visual effects, to animate, alter, and composite media in 2D and 3D. Its power is simply awesome.
In this course, we'll demonstrate professional workflows and inspire you with practical lessons that ensure you
remember the lessons learned.
After Effects 3 days | $1295 + GST
This three-day course is for people who want to learn how to prepare motion graphics and visual effects. Prerequisite: Final Cut Pro course or equivalent experience with editing footage.
- the power of effects
- the Interface
- project + composition windows
- time layout window
- layer switches & properties
- navigating through time
- setting a work area
- previewing the composition
- tool palette
- time layout window
- composition window
- timeline navigation
- zooming
- hiding/showing layers
- creating new compositions
- resolutions
- sizes and frame rates
- importing and trimming elements
- cropping, sizing
- distorting
- keyframes
- motion paths
- motion blur
- linear & bezier keyframes
- value/velocity graphs
- masks & mattes
- alpha channels
- text tool
- transfer modes
- Nesting and Precompositing
- nested compositions
- preserving quality
- applying & reordering effects
- animating effects
- the render pipeline
- slow motion /fast motion
- frame blending
- time remapping
- time shifting
- stills
- output & render settings & templates
- batch renderingrender queue settings
- compression methods
- render queue templates
- optimizing render speed and performance
- exporting for film, broadcast , CD, and internet
- ease in/ease out/easy ease
- auto/continuous bezier
- linear, hold and roving keyframes
- reverse keyframes
- spatial/ temporal interpolation
- auto-orient rotation
- the wiggler
- Advanced Keying
- chroma key & luma keying
- spill suppressor
- simple choker
- matte choker
- difference matte
- linear color key
- colour range
- colour difference keying
- proxies
- adjustment layers
- comp & layer markers
- preserve underlying transparency
- track mattes
- masks in the timeline
- boolean operations
- animating masks
- the set channels filter
- motion tracker
- motion stabilize
- proxies
- advanced effects
- time displacement
- particle playground
- motion math
- path text on curve or circle
- custom paths from masks or illustrator
- write-on
- fade time, visible characters
- killer title techniques
- working with 3D
- id matte
- advanced Integration
- importing Photoshop & Illustrator layers
- continuous rasterization vector graphics
- using Illustrator paths for masks
- converting paths to keyframes on the tineline
- broadcast colors
- reduce interlace flicker
- timecode
- interlacing issues
- 3:2 pulldown
- pixel aspect ratio
- safe colours
- field rendering
- audio effects
- lange and chorus
- high-lowpass
- modulator
- parametric eq
- reverb
- tone
