After Effects Training: Essential Skills 2

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Overview

Take your After Effects skills to the next level in this two-day training. You will start off with a refresher of the basics and move on to more advanced concepts.

This training will cover several hot topics including creating motion and mask tracking in After Effects and Mocha AE. Other essential skills include properly keying footage, manipulating masks, basic expressions and working with time effects. Get introduced to particle effects, energy effects and sophisticated compositing using multiple layers. Optional lessons include an introduction to Cinema 4D Lite.

Some of the class projects will include topics that cover Motion Graphics, Kinetic Typography, and Planar Tracking for mobile phone image replacement.

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

Review basic editing workflows and tools
Review preferences and settings for optimizing performance
Learn more about different tracking methods
Work with stabilization, point trackers and corner pinning
Track effects to video
Utilize the Mask Tracker for different applications
Track surfaces and create Shape data with Mocha AE
Incorporate tracking data and keying shots
Utilize the 3D tracker to apply compositing images/video
Apply time remapping and time effects
Colorize footage using Lumetri color
Utilize gallery looks with third-party included effects
Learn about 32-bit effect workflow
Use basic expressions to automate animation
Explore particle and energy effects
Review rendering options for a variety of workflows
Optional Lesson: Get introduced to 3D in After Effects and in Cinema 4D Lite

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Prerequisites

After Effects Training: Essential Skills I, or equivalent knowledge

Skill Level: 2

Beyond Basics

Materials

Along with this training, you will receive:

Adobe Authorized Training
Student courseware and class projects
An Adobe Nationally Recognized Course Certificate
Conversion tools bookmark
VIP Lumenbrite Seminars & Events
Adobe MAX Discounts & Exclusive Events

This training can also assist with the preparation of Adobe certification exams, including the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) and the Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) exams.

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