Intermediate Adobe After Effects

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

  • Understanding Parenting
  • Simple Pickwhipping
  • Parenting to a null
  • Using Parenting for positioning
  • Using Parenting in Special Effects

 

Lesson 2: Compound Effects

  • Understanding Compound Effects
  • Gradient Wipe
  • Displacement Map
  • Creating Water

 

Lesson 3: Expressions

  • Introduction to Expressions
  • Simple Pickwhipping
  • Using expressions to animate to the rhythm of music
  • Adjusting the expression direction
  • Adjusting the expression parameters
  • Adjusting the rate of change
  • Adjusting the final value
  • Creating a loop using expressions
  • The wiggle expression

 

Lesson 4: Tracking/Stabilizing

  • Understanding tracking
  • Using the tracker
  • Stabilizing your video
  • Tracking and object
  • Tips for better tracking
  • Difficult tracking

 

Lesson 5: Keying

  • Understanding Keying
  • Shooting Techniques for easier Keying
  • Using Garbage Mattes for easier Keying
  • Using Keylight
  • Refining the Matte

 

Lesson 6: Using the Roto Brush Tool

  • Using the Roto Brush Tool
  • About Rotoscoping
  • Creating a segmentation boundary
  • Fine-tuning the matte
  • Creating a transition from the full clip to the foreground

 

Lesson 7: Compositing Techniques

  • Understanding Layer Blending Modes and how to change those using shortcuts
  • Using Track Mattes
  • Understanding Precomposing and nesting

 

Lesson 8: Performing Color Correction

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