Who should attend this Adobe AfterEffects training course?
This Adobe AfterEffects
training course will appeal to those who are interested in developing their skills in the field of
multimedia, video and presentation graphics using Adobe AfterEffects.
How long is this
Adobe AfterEffects training course?
2 Days
What are the benefits of attending this
Adobe AfterEffects training course?
Adobe AfterEffects is recognised as the essential tool
for motion graphics and visual effects. It offers a fast, flexible, affordable 2D & 3D
compositing and animation toolset to help you develop your creative ideas with speed and control,
and deliver high-quality results for film, video, multimedia, or the Web.
This Adobe
AfterEffects training course will introduce you to Adobe AfterEffects so that you will develop a
full understanding of high resolution multilayer compositing, animation and visual effects. The
footage you create in Adobe AfterEffects will be suitable for digital output to film, videotape,
CD-ROM and the Web.
This course will appeal to those who are interested in developing their
skills in the field of multimedia, video and presentation graphics.
Included in this
course:
- Course book
- Lunch
- 3 Months post training
support
- Certificate of attendence
Course Outline
- Setting preferences
- Setting up a project and
planning ahead
- Overview of all the windows
- Creating compositions
- File formats:
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- Premiere
- Quicktime integration
- Importing
and using images from Photoshop (including layers and alpha channels)
- Importing and
interpreting video clips
- Importing external files as compositions
- Creating and animating text
- Mixing footage from different sources
- Understanding adjustment layers
- Working with vector versus bitmap images
- Layer transfer modes and Track mattes
- Types of keyframes and their uses
- Fine-tuning animations by manually and numerically altering keyframe parameters
- Controlling speed, acceleration and deceleration along a motion path
- Pre-composing; nesting compositions to create complex animations
- Understanding
rendering order - how AfterEffects thinks
- Understanding and applying filters and
effects
- Animating masks - rotoscoping
- Using slow motion and variable
speed during a clip
- Chromakeying
- Working with sound
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Safe zones, frame rates and compression
- Export
and output options
- Rendering the final output (for output to video, for CD playback
and for webplayback)
- Working with DV/Mini DV
- Use of rendering templates
and efficient use of RAM
- Organising large projects
- Working with layers
in time and space
- Understanding layer properties
- Understanding
keyframes
- Animating layer properties over time
- Animation on Bézier
motion paths
- The RAM playback engine and its parameters
- Previewing your
work
- Using the tools in the tool palette
- Understanding layer
masking
- Multiple masks and their parameters
- Using markers
- 3D compositing:-
- Manipulating layers in 3D space
- Animating lights and cameras
- Parenting - animating layers
hierarchically and synchronising their motion
- Vector paint tools - painting
nondestructively on layers over time
- Expressions - creating live relationships between
layer properties
- New visual effects:-
- Shatter
- Radio Waves
- Vegas
- Fractal Noise, etc
- Enhanced masking:-
- Drawing masks in the comp window
- Adding motion blur to masks
- Enhanced productivity
features:-
- Improved interactivity
- Enhanced RAM
Previews
- Tighter integration with Photoshop, Illustrator and
Premiere
- Output to Macromedia Flash (SWF) - creating animations for Web sites
- 16-bit per channel colour support - using high-fidelity colour support for film & HDTV
