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After Effects Advanced

Course description

Who Should Attend

Motion-graphics professionals, visual effects artists, web designers, and film and video professionals.

 

Prerequisites

 

After Effects CC Intro or equivalent experience, plus the prerequisites for the intro.

 

What You Will Learn

 

         Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools

         Using the Roto Brush Tool

         Performing Color Correction

         Using 3D Features

         Working with the 3D Camera Tracker

         Advanced Editing Techniques

         Rendering and Outputting

 

What Students Have Said About After Effects Advanced Training

 

This class helped build my confidence as an end user in After Effects. I feel that I am much more likely to create some interesting motion graphics! - Krissy M. Inovalon

 

Related Training and Certification Classes

 

         After Effects CC Intro

         Premiere Pro CC Advanced

         Premiere Pro CC Intro

         Audition CC

 

 

Course Outline

 

1. Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools

         Getting started

         About the Puppet tools

         Adding Deform pins

         Defining areas of overlap

         Stiffening an area

         Animating pin positions

         Recording animation

         Review questions and answers

 

2. Using the Roto Brush Tool

         About rotoscoping

         Getting started

         Creating a segmentation boundary

         Fine-tuning the matte

         Freezing your Roto Brush tool results

         Changing the background

         Adding animated text

         Outputting your project

         Review questions and answers

 

3. Performing Color Correction

         Getting started

         Adjusting color balance

         Replacing the background

         Removing unwanted elements

         Correcting a range of colors

         Warming colors with the Photo Filter effect

         Review questions and answers

 

4. Using 3D Features

         Getting started

         Creating 3D Text

         Using 3D Views

         Importing a background

         Adding 3D Lights

         Adding a camera

         Repositioning layers

         Adding a text layer

         Working with Cinema 4D Lite

         Review questions and answers

 

5. Working with the 3D Camera Tracker

         About the 3D Camera Tracker effect

         Getting started

         Tracking the footage

         Creating a ground plane, a camera, and the initial text

         Creating realistic shadows

         Adding ambient light

         Creating additional text elements

         Locking a layer to a plane with a null object

         Animating the text

         Adjusting the camera s depth of field

         Rendering the composition

         Review questions and answers

 

6. Advanced Editing Techniques

         Getting started

         Using Warp Stabilizer VFX

         Using single-point motion tracking

         Using multipoint tracking

         Creating a particle simulation

         Retiming playback using the Timewarp effect

         Review questions and answers

 

7. Rendering and Outputting

         Getting started

         Creating templates for the Render Queue

         Exporting using the Render Queue

         Rendering movies with Adobe Media Encoder

         Review questions and answers

 

Disclaimer:
All course objectives and outlines are a guide for students. To ensure student satisfaction, these course topics and order may be modified or added to ensure the latest information is covered to support real world use of the technology.

 


Disclaimer: All course objectives and outlines are a guide for students. The course topics and order of presentation may be modified based upon the needs of each individual class.