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    Adobe After Effects 3 Days | 18 hours | $1190 PLUS TAX

    Calgary's energy, engineering, and corporate communications sectors increasingly rely on motion graphics to explain complex ideas quickly. This three-day After Effects course is taught by working industry professionals -- real production workflows, not classroom exercises. You'll build practical skills from the first session. Prerequisite: Photoshop.

    Understanding Motion Graphics

    • » Defining mograph
    • » Digital video basics
    • » Understanding video formats
    • » Frame rates and resolution

    The interface

    • » Menus
    • » Projects
    • » Panels
    • » Workspaces

    Media Management

    • » Importing media
    • » Organizing your Project panel
    • » Previewing Audio
    • » Working with Photoshop and Illustrator files
    • » Interpreting media

    Creating Animation

    • » Creating compositions
    • » Working with Layers
    • » Using Parenting to write Ae scriptsAnimation
    • » Animating properties
    • » Blur and Blending
    • » Layer styles
    • » Nesting and Precomposing

    Masks Mattes and Keys

    • » What are Masks?
    • » Creating and working with Shapes
    • » Track Mattes
    • » Chroma/Luma Keys

    Working with Text

    • » Creating text
    • » Formatting
    • » Animating
    • » Creating animation presets
    • » Creating custom text animators

    Working with Audio

    • » Adding audio
    • » How to preview audio
    • » Audio metadata
    • » Audio effects
    • » Audio composition markers

    Working in 3D

    • » RAM preview
    • » 3D Layers
    • » Material options
    • » Camera and lighting
    • » Adding depth of fi eld
    • » Ray traced rendering

    Advanced Animation

    • » Animating eff ect properties
    • » Creating animation presets
    • » Controlling time
    • » Smoother/ Wiggler
    • » Interpolation
    • » Squash and Stretch
    • » The Graph editor

    Tracking and stabilizing

    • » Tracker
    • » Mocha for Ae
    • » Warp Stabilizer
    • » 3D Camera solver

    Using the Pick Whip to create AE scripts

    • » LoopOut, Random, Wiggle
    • » Installing scripts
    • » Ease and Whiz