Adobe After Effects Level 2

This course has been designed to provide the delegate with a practical knowledge of this powerful and professional video effects application. This two day course is designed to allow those new to video post production techniques to get the most from this powerful software & create effects that were previously only available to television graphic designers & film producers.

Whilst there is no certification attached to this course our tutor is a certified Adobe Trainer or has extensive experience in this area.

Course Content

Keyframes - Different types of keyframe ; Velocity ; Keyframe shortcuts ; Keyframe graph editor

Type Draw, Paint - All About Alphas ; Working with Photoshop ; Dots, Pixels and Inches ; Working with Illustrator ; Plugging in Type

The Matrix - Particle Playground

More On Effects - Production Bundle Effects Round-Up ; Compound Effects

Animation Assistants - Additional Assistants ; Motion Fun ; Express Yourself ; Animation and behaviour presets

Keying - Using Keylight

Time and Tracking - Time Remapping ; Time Games ; On Stable Ground ; Motion Tracking ; Time warp

Expressions - Writing a simple expression ; Linking expressions to motion track

Working with 3D - Cameras ; Lights ; 3D Layers

NLE Integration - Integration 101 ; Integration with Nonlinear Editing Systems

Format Issues and Rendering - Video Issues ; Playing the Field ; 3:2 Pulldown ; Luminance and IRE Issues ; Working with D1/DV NTSC Working with Widescreen ; Prerendering and Proxies ; Advanced Rendering-Render Farm Concept ; What's Your Preference? ; The Secret Preferences

Skills

Keyframe Complexity ; Graphs ; Keyframe Graphic Editor ; Expressions ; Render Queue ; Path Text ; Masks ; Color Keying ; Track Mattes ; Compound Effects ; Motion Stabilisation and Tracking ; Render Order/Precomposing ; 3D Animation ; Matrix Movie Typography