Adobe After Effects Training

Curriculum:

Getting to Know the Workflow

• Creating a project and importing footage
• Creating a composition and arranging layers
• Adding effects and modifying layer properties
• Animating the composition
• Previewing your work
• Optimizing performance in After Effects
• Rendering and exporting your composition
• Customizing workspaces
• Controlling the brightness of the user interface
• Finding resources for using After Effects

Creating a Basic Animation Using Effects and Presets

• Importing footage using Adobe Bridge
• Creating a new composition
• Working with imported Illustrator layers
• Applying effects to a layer
• Applying an animation preset
• Previewing the effects
• Adding transparency
• Rendering the composition

Animating Text

• About text layers
• Creating and formatting point text
• Using a text animation preset
• Animating with scale keyframes
• Animating using parenting
• Animating imported Photoshop text
• Animating text using a path animation preset
• Animating type tracking
• Animating text opacity
• Using a text animator group
• Cleaning up the path animation 
• Animating a nontext layer along a motion path
• Adding motion blur

Working with Shape Layers

• Adding a shape layer
• Creating custom shapes
• Creating stars
• Positioning layers with snapping
• Incorporating video and audio layers
• Applying a Cartoon effect
• Adding a title bar
• Using Brainstorm to experiment

Animating a Multimedia Presentation

• Animating the scenery using parenting
• Adjusting an anchor point
• Masking video using vector shapes
• Keyframing a motion path
• Animating additional elements
• Applying an effect
• Creating an animated slide show
• Adding an audio track
• Zooming in for a final close-up

Animating Layers

• Simulating lighting changes
• Duplicating an animation using the pick whip
• Animating movement in the scenery
• Adjusting the layers and creating a track matte
• Animating the shadows
• Adding a lens flare effect
• Animating the clock
• Retiming the composition

Working with Masks

• About masks
• Getting started 
• Creating a mask with the Pen tool
• Editing a mask
• Feathering the edges of a mask
• Replacing the content of the mask
• Adding a reflection
• Creating a vignette
• Adjusting the color

Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools

• About the Puppet tools
• Adding Deform pins
• Defining areas of overlap
• Stiffening an area
• Animating pin positions
• Recording animation

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

Performing Color Correction

• Adjusting color balance
• Replacing the background
• Removing unwanted elements
• Correcting a range of colors
• Warming colors with the Photo Filter effect

Using 3D Features

• 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

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

Advanced Editing Techniques

• Using Warp Stabilizer VFX
• Using single-point motion tracking
• Using multipoint tracking
• Creating a particle simulation
• Retiming playback using the Timewarp effect

Rendering and Outputting

• Creating templates for the Render Queue
• Exporting using the Render Queue
• Rendering movies with Adobe Media Encoder