This online Adobe After Effects CC training is delivered by highly qualified instructors based here in the north east of the UK. Course materials will be sent to attendees 2 days prior to the course.
After Effects Intro - 2 days - £265
- The After Effects screen
- The After Effects workflow
- Creating a composition
- Importing media
- Adding layers to a composition
- Working with a timeline
- Transform properties of layers
- Keyframing layer properties
- RAM preview
- Keyframe manipulation & interpolation
- The Graph Editor
- Motion Sketch and Smoother
- Auto-orienting objects to paths
- Motion blur
- Roving keyframes
- The Pan Behind tool
- Trim-move-stack-split
- Sequence layers
- Looping footage
- Image sequences
- Changing playback speed with Frame Rate
- Changing playback speed with Time Stretch
- Applying blending modes
- Effects and solids
- Layer styles
- Masks
- Opacity
- Masks
- Shape
- Feather
- Expansion
- Masking with the Pen tool
- Using a Track Matte
- The Effects and Presets panel
- Applying effects to layers
- Modifying effects
- Animating effects
- Changing the order of effects
- Using Adjustment Layers
- Using the Text tool
- Animating text
- Text animation presets and Adobe Bridge
- Exporting files
- Adding to the Render Queue
- Exporting with Adobe Media Encoder
After Effects Advanced - 2 days - £265
- Animating text layers:
- Animating text along a path
- Animating individual characters
- Range selectors
- Advanced Range Selector features
- The ‘Wiggly Selector’
- Understanding Pre-comps
- Editing pre-comps
- Locking panels
- Using Null objects
- Different types of keyframe
- Velocity
- Keyframe shortcuts
- Keyframe graph editor
- Proportional adjustment
- Snapping to keyframes
- Keyframe Assistants
- Adding an ‘Easy Ease’
- Time reverse keyframes
- Animation and behaviour presets
- Keyframe Interpolation
- Creating masks
- Importing masks from Illustrator
- Animating masks
- Shape layers
- Shape layer modifiers
- Repeater
- Animating along a vector path
- Auto orient to the path
- Creating a path from an nomination path
- Stroke a path
- Scribble in a path
- Other path effects
- Radio Waves
- Particle Effects
- More on effects:
- Production bundle effects round-up
- Compound effects
- Keying:
- Using Keylight
- Using the Roto Brush
- Time and tracking:
- Time re-mapping
- Time warp
- Motion Tracking
- Tracking faces
- Perspective Corner pinning
- 3D Camera Tracking
- Understanding 3D
- 3D Layers
- The 3D Axis
- Cameras
- Lights
- The Unified Camera tool
- Integration with Cinema 4D
- Integration with Adobe Premiere Pro
- Integration with other non-linear editing systems
- Working with Adobe Photoshop
- Working with Adobe Illustrator
- Project management:
- Collecting files
- Consolidating footage
- Removing unused footage
- Reducing the project
- Advanced rendering – the ‘Render Farm’ concept