After Effects 201: Green Belt

Who is this course for?

Graphic professionals who want to enhance their motion editing and compositing and experienced users will benefit from the many tips, tricks and special exercises included in this course which covers many advanced features. We also recommend this course for those planning to obtain the Adobe Certified Expert, ACE, status in After Effects.

Objectives

You will learn Keyframe Complexity, graphs, Keyframe graphic editor, expressions, render queue, path text, masks, color keying, track mattes, compound effects, motion stabilisation and tracking, render order/pre-composing, 3D animation.

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, you should have already have acquired skills and knowledge from the After Effects 101 training course.

Benefits

Adobe After Effects is the industry leader for Video Compositing that allows you to create QuickTime movies for output on the Web, CD ROM, Monitor, or full-motion broadcast quality video for television. You will learn how to mix a number of still images together to create a moving texture. Placing Compositions into other Compositions, using Keyframes & Layers, and Effective Rendering techniques will also be covered.

Beyond the basics

Adding custom easing
Advanced time remapping
Scene blur
Frame blending

Combine effects

Compositing 3D objects and 2D footage
3D lights
Creating shadow effects in 3D
3D camera tracking
Green screen and rotoscoping

Working with shapes and vectors

Generating strokes
Adding and animating layer styles
Animating outlines
Advanced type animation
Animating Masks

External controls

Animating characters
Advanced null control
Using sound to control layer properties

Re-creating common effects

Jittery text
Double exposure
Kinetic typography
Slick object transitions
Sequential compositions