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After Effects Training: Essential Skills 1

"Repeating the basics and fundamentals helped drill in the key strokes and processes into memory. He covered lots of tools and techniques in a short amount of time. I feel comfortable with the skills I learned and feel like they will help me explore even more on my own time in the future. Thanks! " - Kyndall

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Overview

Attend our three-day After Effects training to learn fundamental and advanced techniques. Covering animation, compositing, visual effects, 3D rendering, and scripting, this course will give you the skills to create professional projects with After Effects

In this After Effects class, you will learn how to create rich compositions using various files such as video, Photoshop, and Illustrator. You will also learn about advanced text effects, video blending, keying effects, and track mattes. The course will start with the fundamentals of After Effects and progress to more advanced animation techniques. 

Your instructor will teach you about nesting, creating precomps, motion tracking, and other techniques to streamline video post production. You will also learn about common pitfalls and best practices to create professional-grade motion graphics and video effects that will be properly viewed by your audiences. 

Some of the projects you will work on in this class include topics such as motion graphics, kinetic typography, cinemagraphs, and motion tracking. By the end of this Adobe After Effects class, you will have a strong understanding of After Effects and how to use it to create impressive motion graphics and video effects.

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Outline

  • Get comfortable with the interface and workspaces
  • Learn After Effects workflows
  • Create After Effect Compositions to match your project needs
  • Integrate a video, audio, images, layered Photoshop, and Illustrator files
  • Manipulate transformation properties, blend modes, keyframes and ease transitions of objects in the timeline
  • Become familiar with animating techniques
  • Parent objects together to share transformation properties and animation
  • Learn the difference between layer masks and track mattes
  • Get introduced to the fundamentals of tracking
  • Utilize effects for the keying of footage
  • Create lower third graphics, animate and composite
  • Learn Adobe Media Encoder to render

If you need additional information regarding the course syllabus, please Contact Us.

For additional courses, including a full AE Bootcamp visit our Adobe Training catalog.

Course Manual

Prerequisites

  • Basic Computer Skills on Windows or Mac
course-level

Skill Level: 1

Foundation

Materials

Along with this training, you will receive:

  • Student courseware and class projects
  • Adobe After Effects Course Certificate
  • Conversion tools bookmark

This training can also assist with the preparation of Adobe certification exams, including the Adobe Certified Professional credential.

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