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After Effects Training: Essential Skills 1

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Overview

Learn After Effects in this three-day training event with an in depth courseware that covers both fundamental and more advanced topics.

Learn After Effects to create rich compositions with video, Photoshop, Illustrator and other files. Utilize advanced text effects, video blending, keying effects and track mattes. Work from a fundamental level to more advanced animation techniques while learning After Effects tools and workflows for productivity.  Your instructor will also cover nesting, creating precomps, motion tracking and other methods for streamlining video post production.

Some of the class projects will include topics covering Motion Graphics, Kinetic Typography, Cinemagraphs and Motion Tracking.

Your instructor will cover the pitfalls, and the best practices will be followed so that you are creating professional-grade motion graphics and video effects that will be properly viewed by your audiences in this After Effects class.

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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

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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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