ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS All versions

Duration: 2 days


Overview
Adobe After Effects enables you to apply professional effects to video straight from the desktop. Its range of tools is equally at home on a consumer computer or within a professional video post production environment.


The course will provide you with everything you need to get the best out of this powerful software. Looking extensively at how After Effects can be combined with other applications such as PhotoShop and Premiere, you will gain hands-on experience of fast, efficient and professional techniques culminating in a thorough, fundamental knowledge, leaving you free to explore your own creativity.

Creating Projects

  • working with PhotoShop
  • the projects window
  • how to animate layers
  • working with multiple keyframes
  • text and animation
  • motion paths and bezier curves
  • effects for layers

Importing Video

  • precompositing video
  • nesting video
  • working with alpha channels
  • creating loops
  • storyboarding

Layers

  • techniques for masking
  • animated mattes with bezier curves
  • adjusting playback speed

Key Frames

  • working with keyframes
  • animating graphics
  • time reverse keyframing
  • editing multiple keyframes
  • keyframe assistants
  • control of animations
  • synchronising with markers
  • working with mattes
  • colour keys to make mattes
  • using transform mode
  • layers for interactivity
  • working with compound arithmetic
  • multiple effects
  • After Effects paths
  • Adjustment layers
  • The align palette


Filters and Transitions

  • Working with the filter set
  • levels
  • shadows
  • Push strokes
  • perspective
  • texturise
  • 3D planes
  • mattes
  • bevelling alpha channels
  • transitions

Project Compilation

  • Optimise settings
  • rendering
  • editing the value graph
  • interpolation techniques
  • controlling velocity
  • controlling speed of change
  • colour coding
  • combining interpolation techniques
  • working in wireframe
  • working with audio effects
  • working with premiere files

Rendering

  • custom rendering templates
  • techniques for fast rendering
  • best use of RAM
  • field rendering order
  • 3:2 pull down ration for film

Troubleshooting Tips

Question and Answer Session

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