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.

Are ready to learn how to make professional DVD productions?

This training course will fit anyone from the hobbyist that wants to turn all of their home movies into DVDs or to the professional who wants to produce a retail DVD any mass quantities.

Not only will you learn how to operate and be proficient with Adobe Encore but you will learn take your DVD from conception to final masterpiece. This course is based on real-world application from an instructor who works in the field everyday and has produced multiple DVDs for retail sale worldwide.

This course will also cover the difference between duplication and replication, learn everything from glass mastering, packaging, to hiring a manufacture for disc mass production for expert results. Learn how to create professional DVD packages from (1 to 1 million) that are ready for distribution by building a glass master. 

Here is a rundown of what you will learn in our very intense 2-day training course.

Day 1
Introduction to Encore DVD
You will become familiar with Encore Interface. The key areas covered will be the projects tab, menus tab, Timelines, library, layers palette, toolbar, workspaces and preferences.
You will learn a typical workflow to create professional DVD's and DVD ROMS. This will include the supported video and audio formats you will need to begin your DVD project.

Preparing a Project:
Preparing and planning your assets for import.

Preview all your assets and create a project for your assets.Save your project and open your saved project. Work with Project Assets, Import Project Assets, Scale and Swap Image Assets, Replace Project Assets, Organize Project Assets, Create Project Folders, Rename/Sort/Preview Project Assets, Cope with Offline Files,Use the Encore Library.

Create Project Timelines
Create a Video Timeline, Navigate the Timeline, Work with Audio Clips, Set a Timeline as First Play, Create Chapter Points and Poster Frames, Trim Video Clips, Create Image Timelines, Create Slide Shows

Create Menus, Sub Menus and Buttons
Add Buttons and Assets to Submenus, Select and Edit Menu Assets, Align and Distribute Menu Assets,
Arrange Menu Objects, Rotate and Mirror Menu Objects, Convert Objects to Buttons, Create Navigation Links, Set End Actions, Set Default Title and Menu Remote Buttons, Set Button Numbering and Routing,
Set Override Actions, Set Menu Color Sets, Preview a Menu.

Using Photoshop to create custom menus and buttons
Learn the key basics of using Photoshop to create your own elements for Adobe Encore.

Day 2
Finalizing your DVD production
This will be polishing and finalizing your DVD production. Customizing your DVD menus and Sub-menus  utilizing Adobe PhotoShop to acheive professional custom menus.

Transcode your assests so they will fit your DVD needs. Set up custom transcode settings so each asset will be formated to fit your DVD production needs

Transcode Project Assets
About Transcoding, When to Transcode, About Transcode Methods, Transcode Assets, Create Custom Transcode Presets, Manage Custom Transcode Preset

Create Custom DVD Menus
Create Video for Motion Menus, Create a Motion Menu, Add Background Audio and Set Looping, Create Animated Buttons, Preview Motion Menus, Create a Custom Menu in Photoshop, Create Background and Title Layers, Understand Button Set Nomenclature, Create a Custom Button Set, Import A PSD File as a Menu Asset, Add Alternate Audio Tracks

Finalize the Project for Output
Preview the Project, Test for Missing Links and Unused Assets, Finalize Project Settings/Set Copy Protection, Burn the Project to DVD Disc,

About Disc Replication vs Duplication and Dual-DVD Discs