Advanced After Effects

Advanced After Effects training course for existing users, teaching you techniques to make your motion graphics stand out from the rest.

Sessions include:

• Advanced workflows: importing Premiere Pro clips to add special effects, or for colour correction or colour grading.
• Keying and Content-Aware.
• Animation and expressions.
• Time remapping
• Tracking.
• 3D.

Course content

Advanced Adobe Creative Cloud workflow

• Move a Premiere Pro sequence or whole Project into After Effects for complete post-production work, including visual effects, colour correction, grading and exporting
• Create Motion Graphics Templates for use in Premiere Pro
• Integrate Photoshop and Illustrator files into your After Effects workflow
• Create shape layers from Illustrator files
• Create text layers from Photoshop files
• Import Photoshop and Illustrator files with layers and blend modes
• Archiving your After Effects projects
• Consolidating files for archiving

Keying and Content-Aware tools

• Keylight – powerful plugin for removing green screen backgrounds
• Content-Aware Fill
• Remove moving objects with Content-Aware Fill

Animation and Expressions

• Create your own text animators
• Text on a path animations
• Create object reveals effects with Trim Paths operator
• Understanding expressions in After Effects
• Create animated infographics with expressions
• Create looping animations using expressions
• Creating animated snow and rain effects

Time Remapping

• Time remapping techniques
• Creating slow motion and fast motion effects
• Utilising Time Warp for slow motion techniques
• Creating slow motion with Graph Editor

Tracking

• Tracking moving objects in videos
• Using tracking for screen replacements
• Tracking people in videos (blurring/pixelating people’s faces or other effects)
• 3D tracking – learn to get the most out of the built-in 3D Cameras Tracker effect. Exclude objects and people from the tracker and specify regions to track using masks
• Mocha AE – use this plug-in to solve difficult tracks and perform screen replacements

3D

• Understanding 3D in After Effects
• What can be done with 3D in After Effects?
• Creating 3D layers
• 3D extrusions – material options and adding depth to 3D objects
• 3D Rendering engines in After Effects
• Adding lights and creating shadows
• Adding cameras and animating them

Duration:1 Day

Cost:£245 + Vat