After Effects Training
This three-day After Effects training class is designed for the beginning to intermediate user. This course will help you understand the fundamental basics of animation & compositing. After Effects is an essential tool for any non linear video editor.
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Here's what is included:
• 3 Days of Training (9am - 5pm)
• Dedicated After Effects workstation system for maximum hands-on experience
• Small Class size limited to 5 students!
• Official Chris and Trish Meyer Motion Graphics Courseware
• Framed Certificate of completion
• Ongoing Training Support (phone, email, livehelp, discussion forum)
• FREE opportunities to retake the same course at a future time
• Special hand-outs and tutorials
• Access to hundreds of updated tutorials
• Luxurious training location (transportation to-from your hotel provided)
You will not find another training center offering this level of benefits for an After Effect's course. Check our schedule for pricing information or call 866-566-1881 (24 hours) for class registration information.
Topics to be covered will include:
• Creating 2D elements and animations
• Working with text and numbers
• Creating 3D elements and animations
• Compositing 2D, 3D and live action elements
• Working with cameras
• Basic effects and rendering
• Working with Output media
Prerequisites: A basic understanding of Macintosh or PC computers, preferably running MAC OS 10 or Windows XP.
The After Effects 3 day training class uses courseware 'Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects' written by Trish & Chris Meyer. The courseware contains 26 modules and is taught over a period of 3 days.
What you will learn in this After Effects Course:
• How to master After FX's complex animation options all the way through understanding velocity control.
• Learn how to blend different images using masks, mattes and modes.
• You will discover how to use building groups and hierarchies through using parenting and nested composites.
• Extensive coverage of how 3D layers work with cameras and lights.
DAY 1 (basic animation and compositions)
• Getting started in After FX with some basic Animation
Start out this class by building an opening title for a mythical detective show. This exercise is designed to demonstrate some of the major features of After Effects.
• Creating your own AE composition
Next, you will learn how to set up your own compositions. This includes learning key shortcuts for navigating within the Comp and Timeline windows with After Effects. You'll also learn how to manage your work area.
Discover various ways to preview your working animations.
• Learning the basics of keyframing in After FX
Master the basics of using keyframes, learn how to manipulate them to represent certain After Effects properties over time. Key concepts include how to use motion paths and velocity with special keyframe assistants ( easy ease, motion sketch, and time reverse keyframes)
• Understanding Transformations
Take your animated AE elements and integrate important properties such as scale, rotating and opacity changes. Learn how to change the anchor point around which transformations occur
Day 2 (understanding layers essential, trimming and blend functions)
• Working with video layers
Learn the fundementals of working with After Effects layers. These skills including mastering the trimming techniques which include features such as splitting layers and slip edits.
• Manipulating time
Explore various methods using time stretching, reversing, frame blending and motion blur techniques.
(Using After Effects modes, masks, mattes, and stencils)
• Using After FX Modes, Masks and Mattes
Explore how AE transfer modes work, including details on drawing, editing, and combining masks. Learn tricks on how to properly rotoscope an object, plus explore how smart mask interpolation works.
• Using Track Mattes
Discover the use of using track mattes within After FX, which borrow the luminance or alpha channel of a layer to define the opacity of another layer.
• Using Stencils and the 'T'
You will learn how to use Stencils and Silhouettes which affect the transparency of layers with an After FX composite. We will also show you the difference between the preserve transparency, and alpha add transfer modes.
Day 3 (Camera's and 3D compositing)
• Cameras, Light and Actions within After Effects
An introduction to how three dimensional space works within After FX. This includes working with different views within the After Effects composition menu
• Working with Cameras in After FX
Learn how to create, edit and animate cameras within 3D space using After Effects. You will learn how to work with the default camera, and we will demystify the numerous camera control parameters within AE.
• Lighting in 3D using After Effects
We will show you how to create, edit and manage the different lights within After FX. Discover the importance of material options and how they react with different types of lights.
(Nesting, and Precomposing techniques)
• Parenting Skills within AE
Learn the importance of using parenting to group individual After Effects layers. This allows you to apply an effect or motion parameter to a group of layers, while maintaining the effects within the individual layers themselves.
• Nesting Compositions
Discover why it is critical to build advanced effects using multiple compositions. This will allow you to manage incredibly complicated effects structures with the ability to make changes
• Precomposing
Learn how to precompose compositions, which is basically the same as nesting, but backwards.
• Collapsing Transformations with After FX
Learn an incredibly useful approach to maximizing image quality in a chain of composites, and why that differs when compositions are made of 3D layers. We will give you the warnings of some unexpected results.
• Importing and Outputting from After Effects
Learn the important aspects of importing various media types into After FX.
• Wrap Up
Take time review important concepts that were covered in previous modules. The Instructor will review critical concepts and give everyone in the class time to finish any uncompleted exercises.
