Using After Effects

Duration: 2 days Cost: £250 ex VAT
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This 2 day course will provide you with the skills to produce professional motion graphics and visual effects using ‘Adobe After Effects’.

Adobe After Effects helps you take advantage of unmatched integration with other Adobe software, flexible 2D and 3D compositing, and hundreds of effects and Animation Presets to bring a new dimension to your film, video, DVD, and Macromedia Flash productions.

Suitable for:
For anyone who wishes to learn to import and manipulate digital video and image files to create sequences for film, video, DVD, and the Web.

Prerequisites:

  • Good keyboard and mouse skills with a working knowledge of the Windows environment.
  • Familiarity with digital video formats.
  • No experience using Adobe Premiere is assumed.

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Course outline:

Overview of all the windows

  • Navigating around and through time
  • Using the tools

Starting a project

  • Importing and using images from
  • Photoshop
  • Photoshop Layers and Alpha channels
  • Importing Video clips
  • Transitions
  • Understanding layers
  • How key frames work
  • Creating and animating text
  • Animation on Bezier motion paths

Filters and Effects

  • Understanding layer masking
  • Using markers for synchronicity
  • Working with sound
  • Mixing footage
    EPS vs. Picts

Types of keyframes

  • Keyframe uses
  • Advanced Filters
  • Advanced Effects
  • Pre-composition
  • Nesting compositions
  • Creating complex animations
  • Organising large projects

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