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After Effects Training: Essential Skills II

After Effects Training: Essential Skills II

After Effects Training: Essential Skills II Schedule

Austin, TX July 11-12, 2013 $995.00 Add to Cart
Phoenix, AZ - Tempe July 25-26, 2013 $995.00 Add to Cart
Austin, TX August 01-02, 2013 $995.00 Add to Cart
Houston, TX August 22-23, 2013 $995.00 Add to Cart

Special Group rates are available for this training.

We can also perform this training at your location or at one of the cities listed below:


After Effects Training: Essential Skills II Overview

Take your AfterEffects skills to the next level in this two day training. You will start off with a refresher of the basics and move on to more advanced concepts. This training will cover several hot topics including creating complex tracking in Mocha AE, and exporting to Flash and using Flash Cue Points with AfterEffects. Other essential skills include properly keying footage, manipulating masks and working with a variety of footage. You will also work with creating effective 3D workflows including titles, backgrounds and other assets. Get the tools you need to effectively rotoscope footage. This course will also cover 32-bit HDR compositing basics and color management.

Your instructor will cover the pitfalls, and the best practices will be followed so that you are creating professional-grade motion graphics and video effects that will be properly viewed by your audiences in this After Effects class.

This After Effects training is intensive, but not complicated. Our job is to make difficult concepts easy to understand and implement into your own projects.

Flash Cue Points in AfterEffects
Work with Flash Cue Points and AfterEffects

Use advanced tracking with Mocha AE
Learn advanced tracking with Mocha AE

After Effects Training: Essential Skills II Course Materials

Along with this Two-Day Training, you will receive:

  • Course Manual
  • Student Files and Class Assets
  • How-To Videos on CD*
  • An Adobe Nationally Recognized Course Certificate
  • After-Class, Follow-Up Support
  • Conversion Tools Bookmark
  • Additional Goodies!

*Some classes may not include videos

After Effects Training: Essential Skills II Course Prerequisites

  • Completion of After Effects: Essential Skills I, or have equivalent knowledge of topics covered in the After Effects: Essential Skills I course.

After Effects Training: Essential Skills II Course Outline

After Effects Training: Essential Skills II PDF Version of After Effects Training: Essential Skills II Outline

NEW FEATURES OF CS5 COVERED

  • Roto Brush
  • Mocha for After Effects CS5 and mocha shape
  • Auto-keyframe mode
  • Refine Matte effect and dozens of other enhancements
  • Color Look-Up Table support
  • Color Finesse 3 LE
  • Digieffects FreeForm

AFTER EFFECTS REFRESHER

  • Creating new Projects
  • About Sources, Sequences and Monitors
  • Workspaces and Panels
  • Organizing Content Sources and Footage
  • Interpret Footage Settings
  • Effects and Presets Overview
  • Working with the Timeline
  • Keyframing and the Graph Editor
  • Spatial Offets, Hold and Easing
  • Motion Blur and Settings
  • Render Queue and the Render Queue Settings
  • Manipulating Time

RENDERING AND OUTPUT

  • More about the Render Queue and Rendering
  • Adjusting the Render Settings
  • Using Output Module options and presets
  • Best practices for rendering output
  • Working with video for HD formats, web video and YouTube
  • Transport vs Authoring video formats

 

COMPOSITING PRICIPLES

  • Working with Alpha Channels and Premultiplication
  • Masks and Settings
  • Animating Masks
  • Attaching Effects to masks
  • Combining Selections
  • Working with Blending Modes
  • Using Track Mattes Effectively

BASIC TO ADVANCED TRACKING

  • Overview of basic trackers
  • Manipulating multiple trackers
  • Tracking multiple layers
  • Using Mocha AE to create a simple track
  • Perspective Corner Pin Effect with Mocha AE
  • Using Masks in Mocha AE
  • Stabilizing Motion with multiple trackers
  • Expressions and Tracking
  • Import 3D Tracking Data

COLOR KEYING

  • Linear keyers and Hi-Con Mattes
  • Blue and Green Screen Keys
  • Properly using Keylight
  • Creating better mattes

ROTOSCOPING AND PAINT TOOLS

  • Articulated Mattes
  • Using Morph and Puppet
  • Puppet Options
  • Painting and Cloning best practices

 

WORKING WITH EXPRESSIONS

  • Expressions Overview
  • Linking an Effect Parameter to a Property
  • Using a Layer’s Index
  • Looping Keyframes
  • Using markers

COLOR CORRECTION

  • Perform essential color correction
  • Properly manipulate levels
  • Color matching
  • 32BIT HDR COMPOSITING
  • Color management
  • Film and dynamic range
  • Linear point float HDR

3D OBJECTS AND LIGHTING

  • Overview of 3D tools and animation
  • Manipulating 3D objects and cameras
  • Adding lights and changing views
  • Adding backgrounds, titles and effects
  • Creating an effect 3D workflow
  • Effective Third-Party tools

AFTEREFFECTS TO ADOBE FLASH WORKFLOW

  • Exporting options for Flash
  • Streaming vs Progressive Download
  • Video for the web, including YouTube
  • Analyzing cross-program features
  • Optimizing content for the web
  • Creating video players and fullscreen capabilities
  • Using markers and Flash cue points between programs

 

SPECIALIZED TOOLS

  • Particle Effects
  • Energy Effects

RESOURCES

  • Third-party Effects
  • Stock video resources
  • Tutorials and other resources
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