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Adobe After Effects CS5 Introduction Masterclass 5 Days - Cardiff

This scheduled course is a thorough introduction to using Adobe After Effects CS5 to create dynamic designs for commercial video and motion picture production to CD-Rom and includes full coverage of many of the more advanced features of the application.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
-Create animations
-Work with layers
-Apply Effects
-Work with masks & mattes
-Use colour effectively
-Export files

By the end students will also have knowledge of the more complex features of the application including but not limited to: Keyframe Complexity, graphs, keyframe graphic editor, expressions, render queue, path text, masks, color keying, track mattes, compound effects, motion stabilization and tracking, render order/precomposing, 3D animation.

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A bespoke version of this scheduled
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Adobe After Effects CS5 training at XChangeTraining
 

Price:

£950
 

Duration:

5 Days
 

Course Location:

Central Cardiff
 

Course Dates:

 
21 May - 25 May
 
25 Jun - 29 Jun
 
17 Sep - 21 Sep
 
29 Oct - 2 Nov
 

 

  A copy of this quality manual is available to all attendees of this course:
 
 

Adobe After Effects CS5 Classroom in a Book

  Price listed is per delegate and excludes VAT.
 

XChange Training limit class size (4-8 delegates max) to ensure an excellent quality of training is provided so courses can fill up quickly. Please book up early to guarantee your place.
 

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Adobe After Effects CS5 Introduction Masterclass 5 Days - Cardiff Outline

The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.

User Interface and Animation
-What is a project file and what is in it?
-Tools and Panels: how to navigate around the application,
-Workspaces: selecting, saving, setting,

Introduction to Animation
-Transform properties of layers
-Keyframing: making element move,
-Importing Photoshop and Illustrator files,

Intermediate Animation
-In depth Keyframe manipulation and interpolation
-Graph Editor,
-Motion Sketch/Smoother,
-Auto-Orient/Motion
-Blur, Roving
-Keyframes,
-Anchor Point/Pan Behind Tool,
-Panning a large graphic: technique,
-Hold Keyframes,

Control of Layers
-Trim-move-stack-split (keyboard shortcuts)
-Quality, SlipTool,
-Sequence Layers,
-Solo Switches,
-Looping Footage,
-Image Sequences,
-Frame Rate vs. Time Stretch,
-Blending Modes,
-Effects and Solids with Blending Modes,
-Effects and Presets Panel: animation presets,
-Adjustment layers,

Transparency
-Masks
-Shape, feather, expansion,
-Masking with the Pen Tool:
-Bezier curves,
-Mask Shape Interpolation,
-Mask modes,
-Mattes and Stencils,
-Mask shapes

Type and Titles
-Simple Rules of Titling
-Basic Text,
-Text Animators/Range Selectors,
-Randomizing,
-Applying and Saving Text Animation presets,
-Per character animators,

Nesting
-Precomps
-Editing Precomps,
-Locking panels, Render Order
-How After Effects put it all together

Exporting Files
-Render Queue
-Export As
-Same Frame As
-Prerender

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Keyframes
-Different types of Keyframe
-Velocity
-Keyframe shortcuts
-Keyframe graph editor

Type Draw, Paint
-All About Alphas
-Working with Photoshop
-Dots, Pixels and Inches
-Working with Illustrator
-Plugging in Type

The Matrix
-Particle Playground

More On Effects
-Production Bundle Effects Round-Up
-Compound Effects

Animation Assistants
-Additional Assistants
-Motion Fun
-Express Yourself
-Animation and behaviour presets

Keying
-Using Keylight

Time and Tracking
-Time Remapping
-Time Games
-On Stable Ground
-Motion Tracking
-Time warp

Expressions
-Writing a simple expression
-Linking expressions to motion track

Working with 3D
-Cameras
-Lights
-3D Layers

NLE Integration
-Integration 101
-Integration with Nonlinear Editing Systems

Format Issues and Rendering
-Video Issues
-Playing the Field
-3:2 Pulldown
-Luminance and IRE Issues
-Working with D1/DV NTSC
-Working with Widescreen
-Pre-rendering and Proxies
-Advanced Rendering-Render Farm Concept
-What’s Your Preference?
-The Secret Preferences


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Course Target Audience and delegate prerequisites

A person who wishes to work in the video field or who currently works in the field, or an Adobe application user looking to expand his or her skills, looking to add effects to video projects. Some students may be mainly interested in creating video primarily for the Web, and others for film, but the majority are preparing more for work in broadcast video. This course is for people new to After Effects.

Ahead of taking this course the trainee must have basic PC or Mac skills, including a fundamental understanding of a computer's operating system, how to launch an application and create and save files, as well as how to copy files from CDs and other media.


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Location information for this scheduled course

This course will be offered at the XChange Training scheduled training offices in Cardiff at:

Brunel House,
2 Fitzalan Road,
Cardiff CF24 0UY

The Cardiff training centre is located in Brunel House which is only 3 minutes on foot from Cardiff Queen Street train station. Queen Street. Trains to/from Cardiff Central station run every 10 minutes. Directly opposite the building is a convenient NCP car park.

Courses are run between 10am and 5pm with an hour break for lunch and both mid morning and mid-afternoon refreshment breaks.

 

Training Centre address
Central Cardiff

Tel: 0845 363 1130
Email: info@xchangetraining.co.uk

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Advantages of learning Adobe After Effects CS5 with XChange Training

-XChange Training is an Adobe Certified Training Centre
-Our Adobe After Effects CS5 trainers are experienced video professionals with excellent knowledge of all aspects of video workflows.
-XChange training focuses on real tasks that reflect how the software is used in professional situations.
-Free Course manual provided for each trainee as excellent post-course reference material.
-Free email support service for 6 months after course included in the price.
-We get consistently good feedback from our clients.

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