Adobe After Effects CC Introduction Masterclass 4 Days - London

After Effects Masterclass 4 Days Overview

This 4-day Masterclass course helps you learn about the tools and features available for power users of Adobe After Effects CC. We will show you how this industry-leading program takes visual effects and motion graphics to a new level. You will use the program's powerful tools to add a slick, professional look to all your movie projects. Together, we will study the After Effects environment and give you the abilities you need to become a special-effects expert. Our tips are sure to enhance the quality and creativity of your visual output.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Navigate the After Effects environment
• Understand keyframe manipulation and interpolation
• Work with layers, masks, and mattes
• Apply special effects
• Add titles and text
• Use colour effectively
• Write expressions and use expression controllers
• Create advanced animations
• Move cameras and lighting in 3D
• Track motion
• Warp and re-map time
• Export your files

Our goals are for you to be able to apply a wide range of visual effects, to understand both basic and advanced features of After Effects, and to become a confident power user.

This course can be taken in a single 5-day block or split into a 2-day block (Introduction) and then a separate 3-day block (Advanced) taken at a later date.

Course Target Audience and delegate prerequisites

This course is intended for anyone new to the field of video and motion graphics who wants to learn about applying special effects.

You will need basic PC or Mac skills, including a solid understanding of a computer's operating system (Windows or Mac OS). You will also need to know how to launch a program, create and save files, and copy files from CDs and other media.

 

After Effects CC Masterclass 4 Days Course 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 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

What's Included

The following are provided for your best experience on this course:

• All computers for your use with choice of Windows or Mac systems
• Small class size (limited to a maximum of 4-8 attendees on all sessions)
• Quality reference manual for post course reference to take away with you
• 6 months post course support to assist you where needed
• Official Adobe Authorised Certificate for your successful completion of the course
• Lunch To give you the most flexible options for lunch we provide lunch vouchers which can be redeemed locally at a number of popular eateries including Pret A Manger, EAT, Starbucks, Tesco, Sainsburys, Boots and Greggs
• Refreshments to keep you on top form are available for you throughout the course with a full range of teas, coffees and biscuits
• Pads and pens

Daily course times run between 10am and 5pm with an hour break for lunch and both mid morning and mid-afternoon refreshment breaks. We recommend arrival at 9.45am for registration on the first day of the course.

Further details on benefits included with this Adobe After Effects CC course:

Adobe Certified After Effects Instructor

We are an Adobe Authorised Training Centre and our trainers are Adobe Certified Instructors with years of experience teaching After Effects. Get the video skills you need with our experienced After Effects professionals.

Quality training manual

Included with our After Effects courses is the After Effects Classroom in a Book provided for free to use as a post course reference resource. This is a full 300+ page manual to supplement the content covered.

6 months support

Included with your course booking for all delegates on this course is 6 months free support so if you run into problems or need assistance relating to anything covered during your course we would be happy to assist you during this time.

Authorised Certificate

After your Adobe class with XChange Training you will receive our official Adobe Authorised Training Certificate as a record of your successful completion of the Adobe Certified After Effects course.

Lunch & refreshments

Delegates attending scheduled or bespoke courses at our training centres will receive lunch and plentiful refreshments including tea, coffee and hot chocolate for each day of the course.

Training Location

This course is provided at the XChange Training main London training centre based at:

5 St John’s Lane
Clerkenwell
London
EC1M 4BH

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St John’s Lane is located in the heart of Clerkenwell close to the junction of Farringdon and Clerkenwell Road. Farringdon tube & train station is just a few minutes away and the training centre can also be accessed from Chancery Lane and Barbican tubes in about 10 minutes. There is also easy direct access by bus from Waterloo (243) and West End (55) with nearby stops.

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

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