After Effects CC software lets you deliver cinematic visual effects and motion graphics faster than ever before with new Global Performance Cache. Extend your creativity with built-in text and shape extrusion, new mask feathering options. Get into motion graphics – come learn what After Effects CC can do!
Who Should Attend
Video, animation and graphics professionals who need a working knowledge of Adobe After Effects CC.
Prerequisites
- Practical working knowledge of Mac OS X or Windows
- Photoshop Fundamentals: An Introduction to Photoshop or equivalent experience recommended
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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: Other Effects
- Time remapping
- Understanding Compound Effects
- Gradient Wipe
- Displacement Map
Lesson 3: Transfer Controls
- Understanding Layer Blending Modes and how to change those using shortcuts
- Using Track Mattes
- Understanding precomposing and nesting
- Stencil and Silhouette
- Preserve Transparency
Lesson 4: Tracking/Stabilizing
- Understanding tracking
- Using the tracker
- Warp Stabilizer
- Track Motion
- Mask Tracker
- Using single-point motion tracking
- Using multipoint tracking
- Stabilize Motion
- Tips for better tracking
Lesson 5 (optional): Mocha
- Set-up
- Understanding Planer tracker
- Create rough shape with x-spline layer tool
- Show planar surface view
- Search area properties
- Send results
Lesson 6: 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 7: Keying
- Understanding Keying
- Shooting Techniques for easier Keying
- Using Garbage Mattes for easier Keying
- Using Keylight
- Refining the Matte
Lesson 8: Using the Roto Brush Tool
- About rotoscoping
- Getting started
- Creating a segmentation boundary
- Fine-tuning the matte
- Freezing your Roto Brush tool results
- Changing the background
- Adding animated text
- Outputting your project
