Intermediate Adobe After Effects

2 days
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Course Description

In this course designed for videographers, graphic artists, and animators with intermediate-level Adobe After Effects experience, you will learn how to incorporate text, graphics, and effects to your movies. Upon completion of this course, you will have an excellent understanding of the menu and tools in After Effects and be able to perform work with a high level of efficiency.

Who Should Attend

Videographers and animators who are somewhat experienced using Adobe After Effects.

Prerequisites:

Course Outline:

Note: The curricula below comprise activities typically covered in a class at this skill level. The instructor may, at his/her discretion, adjust the lesson plan to meet the needs of the class.

Lesson 1: Parenting

  • Parenting Basics
  • Simple Pick Whipping
  • Parenting Properties
  • Assigning and Removing Multiple Parents
  • Parenting: Under the Hood
  • Parenting to a Null
  • Jump Parenting
  • Using the Copy with Relative Property Links Alternative

Lesson 2: Using Compound Effects

  • Understanding Compound Effects
  • Using Precomposing
  • Compound Blur
  • Gradient Wipe
  • Texturize
  • Displacement Map
  • Time Displacement
  • Radial Blur
  • Card Dance

Lesson 3: Blending Modes and Track Mattes

  • Using Blending Modes
  • Applying and Changing Blending Modes
  • Overview and Uses of Each Blending Mode
  • Darkening and Lightening Modes
  • Combination Darkening and Lightening Using
  • Subtraction and Divide Modes
  • Color Modes
  • Track Matte
  • Basics
  • Luma versus Alpha Mattes
  • Using Precomposing and Nesting with Track Mattes
  • Animated Mattes
  • Using Shape Layers to Create Track Mattes
  • Stencil and Silhouette Mattes
  • Using Preserve Transparency
  • Using Pre Compose to Fix Transparency Backgrounds

Lesson 4: Motion Tracking

  • Motion Tracking Basics
  • Single Point and Multi-point Tracking
  • Using Tracking Regions and Attach Points
  • Adjusting and Correcting Dropped Track Regions
  • Applying Tracking Data
  • Using Nulls and Parenting with Tracking
  • Face Tracking
  • Stabilizing Motion
  • Using the Mask Tracker with Content Aware Fill
  • Tracking with Mocha AE
  • Using the Warp Stabilizer

Lesson 5: Expressions

  • Introduction to Expressions
  • Converting Legacy Expressions
  • Creating, Disabling, and Removing Expressions
  • Simple Pick Whipping
  • Using the Expressions Editor
  • Using Basic Math with Expressions
  • Using the Expressions Graph
  • Using the Expression Language Menu
  • Interpolating with This to That
  • Editing Expressions
  • Using the Wiggle and LoopOut Expressions
  • Using Copy with Relative Property Links
  • Using Expression Controls
  • Converting Expressions to Keyframes
  • Saving Expressions as Presets

Lesson 6: Greenscreen Keying

  • Understanding Keying
  • Analyzing Greenscreen Footage
  • Using Garbage Mattes
  • Using Keylight for Greenscreen Footage
  • Viewing and Refining the Matte
  • Keylight + Key Cleaner + Advanced Spill Suppressor Preset
  • Using the Lumetri Color Effect with Keylight

Lesson 7: Using the Roto Brush 3

  • Setting up Rotoscoping
  • Using Roto Brush 3
  • Creating a Segmentation Boundary
  • Using Adjustment Strokes
  • Freezing and Editing Roto Brush Tool Results

Lesson 8: Performing Color Correction

  • Color Basics
  • Color Management
  • OpenColorIO and ACES Color Management
  • Enhanced HDR Support
  • HDR Import and Export
  • Adjusting Color with Standard Effects
  • Color Correction with the Lumetri Color Effect
  • Lumetri Color Secondary Color Correction
  • Using Lumetri Scopes
  • Color Correction Using Blending Modes

Lesson 9: Creating Motion Graphics Templates

  • Preparing a Template Composition Setting
  • up a Motion Graphics Template
  • Adding Properties to the Essential Graphics panel
  • Providing Image and Video Options
  • Protecting the Timing of Template Sections
  • Exporting the Template as a Mogrt file
  • Using the Essential Graphics panel as a Control panel

Lesson 10: Using Dynamic Link

  • Dynamic Linking of Adobe Premiere Sequences
  • Using Adobe Audition with After Effects
  • Adobe Illustrator file Creation for After Effects
  • Creating GLB and GLBT 3D files with
  • Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Workflow
  • Compatibility

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