After Effects CC Training

Adobe After Effects CC

• Workflow
  • About the Work Area
  • Creating a project and importing footage
  • Creating a composition and arranging layers
  • Adding effects and modifying layer properties
  • Animating the composition
  • About the Tools panel
  • About timecode and duration
  • About the timeline panel
  • Previewing your work
  • Optimizing performance in After Effects
  • Rendering and exporting your composition
  • Customizing workspaces
  • Controlling the brightness of the user interface

• Basic Animation using After Effects and Presets
  • Importing footage using Adobe Bridge
  • Creating a new composition
  • Working with imported Illustrator layers
  • Applying effects to a layer
  • Applying and controlling effects
  • Applying an animation preset
  • Previewing the effects
  • Adding transparency
  • Rendering the composition

• Animating Text
  • About text layers
  • Creating and formatting point text
  • Using a text animation preset
  • Animating with scale keyframes
  • Animating using parenting
  • About parent and child layers
  • Animating imported Photoshop text
  • Animating type tracking
  • Animating text opacity
  • Using a text animator group
  • Animating a layer's position
  • Timing layer animations
  • Adding motion blur

• Working with Shape Layers
  • Adding a shape layer
  • Creating custom shapes
  • Duplicating shapes
  • Duplicating and modifying a composition
  • Positioning layers with snapping
  • Adding compositions to a 3D project
  • Adding the finishing touches

• Animating a Multimedia Presentation
  • Using creative cloud libraries in After Effects
  • Adjusting anchor points
  • Parenting layers
  • Precomposing layers
  • Keyframing a motion path
  • Animating additional elements
  • Applying an effect
  • About solid-color layers
  • Animating precomposed layers
  • Animating the background
  • Adding an audio track
  • Supported audio file formats

• Animating Layers
  • Preparing layered Photoshop files
  • About Photoshop layer styles
  • Simulating lighting changes
  • Duplicating an animation using the pick whip
  • About expressions
  • Animating movement in the scenery
  • Adjusting the layers and creating a track matte
  • About track mattes and traveling mattes
  • Animating the shadows
  • Adding a lens flare effect
  • Adding a video animation
  • Rendering the animation
  • Retiming the composition

• Working with Masks
  • About masks
  • Creating a mask with the Pen tool
  • Editing a mask
  • About mask modes
  • Creating a Bezier mask
  • Feathering the edges of a mask
  • Replacing the content of the mask
  • Zooming and panning by touch
  • Adding a reflection
  • Creating a vignette
  • Using the rectangle and ellipse tools
  • Adjusting the timing
  • Trimming the work area

• Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools
  • About the Puppet tools
  • Adding Deform pins
  • Defining areas of overlap
  • Stiffening an area
  • Animating pin positions
  • Squash and stretch
  • Recording animation
  • Act it out with Adobe Character Animator

• Using the Roto Brush Tool
  • About rotoscoping
  • Creating a segmentation boundary
  • Fine-tuning the matte
  • Refine soft matte and refine hard matte effects
  • Freezing your Roto Brush tool results
  • Changing the background
  • Adding animated text
  • Outputting your project

• Performing Color Correction
  • Adjusting color balance
  • Replacing the background
  • Color-correcting using auto levels
  • Motion tracking the clouds
  • Replacing the sky in the second clip
  • Color grading

• Using 3D Features
  • Creating 3D text
  • Using 3D views
  • Importing a background
  • Adding 3D lights
  • Adding a camera
  • Repositioning layers
  • Extruding text
  • Working with Cinema 4D Lite

• Working with 3D Camera Tracking
  • About the 3D Camera Tracker effect
  • Repairing rolling shutter distortions
  • Tracking the footage
  • Creating a ground plane, a camera, and the initial text
  • Creating realistic shadows
  • Adding ambient light
  • Creating additional text elements
  • Locking a layer to a plane with a null object
  • Animating the text
  • Adjusting the camera's depth of field
  • Rendering the composition

• Advanced Editing Techniques
  • Using Warp Stabilizer VFX
  • Bicubic scaling
  • Warp Stabilizer VFX settings
  • Using single-point motion tracking
  • Checking for drift
  • Moving and resizing the track points
  • Using multipoint tracking
  • Mocha for After Effects
  • Creating a particle simulation
  • Understanding Particle Systems II properties
  • About high dynamic range (HDR) footage

• Rendering and Outputting
  • Creating templates for the Render Queue
  • About compression
  • Exporting using the Render Queue
  • Preparing movies for mobile devices
  • Rendering movies with Adobe Media Encoder
  • Preparing a movie for broadcast output

Before Taking this Class

Photoshop CS6/CC Introduction or equivalent knowledge and experience.

Software/Setup For this Class

• Adobe After Effects CC
• Please Note: This class is taught using the Windows edition of Adobe After Effects CC.