Adobe After Effects

This course is a great introduction to Adobe After Effects, so you can create compelling motion graphics and visual effects. You will learn a comprehensive set of tools for compositing, animation and effects. After thoroughly exploring the fundamental concepts and features needed to use the program you will be able to apply these skills to motion graphics production and broadcast design.

You are experienced in digital media and want to move into the realm of motion graphics and broadcast design. You want to be able to effectively use Adobe After Effects to save time and increase your creative power.

ADOBE / KHDA

Fundamentals of Motion Graphics:

• RGB Color Model
• Frame size
• Resolution
• Pixel aspect ratio
• Alpha channels
• Frame rate
• Time code
• Interpreting footage

Getting to Know the Workflow:

• How After Effects Works
• Overview of panels
• 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
• Customizing workspaces
• Controlling the brightness of the user interface
• Finding resources for using After Effects

Working With Masks:

• About masks
• Creating a mask with the Pen tool
• Editing a mask
• Feathering the edges of a mask
• Replacing the content of the mask
• Mask interpolation
• Using masks from Illustrator and Photoshop
• Masks for spatial keyframes

Animating Text:

• About text layers
• Creating and formatting point text vs. paragraph text
• Using a text animation preset
• Text on a path
• Animating imported Photoshop text
• Animating text using a path animation preset
• Using a text animator
• Adding properties
• Adding a range selector
• Using a text animator group

Creating a Basic Animation Using Effects and Presets:

• Importing footage using Adobe Bridge
• Importing video clips
• Importing stills
• Importing a sequence of stills (interpreting)
• Importing multilayered photoshop and illustrator files
• Creating a new composition
• Applying effects to a layer
• Changing parameters globally
• Creating keyframes
• Keyframe interpolation: auto, continuous, and bezier interpolation
• Temporal and spatial Interpolation
• Roving in time for spatial properties
• Creating and applying an animation preset
• Previewing your work

Other Effects:

• The smoother
• The wiggler
• Auto orient
• Splitting a layer
• Adjustment layers
• The effects and presets panel

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

Rendering and Output:

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

Working with Shape Layers:

• Adding a shape layer
• Creating custom shapes
• Creating stars
• Default properties of shape layers
• Add properties
• Creating Groups
• Stack your shapes & properties
• Using Brainstorm to experiment

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