After Effects Masterclass - 5 day

This course is guaranteed to be delivered by an Adobe Certified Instructor from Certitec - our pledge of excellence.

 

OFFER - If you book this course you are entitled to 2 days free training with the Flexideal^®.

 

 

 

This course can be taken as one continuous block or broken down into smaller segments, namely After Effects Introduction - 2 day, After Effects Advanced - 3 day. There is no extra charge to split your course and some people prefer to learn over a longer period.

 

Who is this course for?

A person who wishes to work in the video field or who currently works in the field, or an Adobe application user looking to expand his or her skills, looking to add effects to video projects. Some students may be interested mainly in creating video primarily for the Web, and others for film, but the majority are preparing more for work in broadcast video. This course is for people new to After Effects but who want to know more than just the basics.

What you will learn?

On this course you’ll become familiar with the After Effects interface. You’ll learn to create animations, work with layers, apply effects, and work with masks and mattes. In addition, you’ll also learn about using type, using colour effectively and exporting files. You will also go on to learn Keyframe Complexity, graphs, Keyframe graphic editor, expressions, render queue, path text, masks, colour keying, track mattes, compound effects, Affiliate Marketing motion stabilisation and tracking.

 

Related Courses

Photoshop Introduction - 2 day

Video Masterclass - 5 day

Flash Introduction - 2 day

 

Training Dates

Cardiff Add dates to your calendar

25 - 29 June 2012

17 - 21 September 2012

…more dates

 

London Farringdon Add dates to your calendar

18 - 22 June 2012

13 - 17 August 2012

…more dates

 

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• Tips and tricks
• Lunch and refreshments
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After Effects Masterclass - 5 day

After Effects user interface and animation

• What’s a project file & what’s in it?
• Tools & panels
• Workspaces

Basic Animation

• Transform properties of layers
• Keyframing: making elements move
• Importing Photoshop & Illustrator files

Intermediate animation

• In-depth Keyframe manipulation & interpolation
• Graph editor
• Motion Sketch/Smoother
• Auto-Orient/Motion
• Blur
• Roving Keyframes
• Anchor Point/Pan Behind Tool
• Panning a large graphic: technique
• Hold Keyframes

Layer control

• Keyboard shortcuts
• Quality
• Slip Tool
• Sequence layers
• Solo Switches
• Looping footage
• Image sequences
• Frame Rate vs Time Stretch
• Blending Modes
• Effects & Solids with Blending Modes
• Effects & Presets Panel
• Adjustment layers

Transparency

• Masks
• Shape
• Feather
• Expansion
• Masking with the Pen Tool
• Bezier curves
• Mask Shape Interpolation
• Mask modes
• Mattes and Stencils
• Mask shapes

Type and Titles

• Simple rules of titling
• Basic text
• Text animators/range selectors
• Randomising
• Applying & saving text animation presets
• Per character animators

Nesting

• Precomps
• Editing Precomps
• Locking panels
• Render order
• How After Effects puts it all together

Exporting Files

• Render Queue
• Export As/Same Frame As
• Pre-render

Keyframes

• Different types of Keyframe
• Velocity
• Keyframe shortcuts
• Keyframe graph editor

Type, Draw, Paint

• All about Alphas
• Working with Photoshop
• Dots, pixels & Inches
• Working with Illustrator
• Plugging in Type

The Matrix

• The 'Particle Playground'

More On Effects

• Production bundle effects round-up
• Compound Effects

Animation Assistants

• Additional Assistants
• Motion fun
• Express yourself
• Animation & 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 non-linear editing systems

Format issues and rendering

• Video issues
• Playing the field
• 3:2 pulldown
• Luminance & IRE issues
• Working with D1/DV NTSC
• Working with widescreen
• Pre-rendering & proxies
• advanced 'Rendering-Render Farm Concept'
• What's Your Preference?
• The 'Secret Preferences'

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After Effects Masterclass - 5 day

The FlexiDeal^® - free training

Our courses come with free training at London Covent Garden and Cardiff!

It's very simple: just book a day of private training or one of our 3-day, 4-day or 5-day scheduled courses (or any combination days) and you'll qualify for additional free training at our London Covent Garden or Cardiff training centres – that's the FlexiDeal^®.

And as long as you take these additional courses within 6 months of your first qualifying booking, you can even accumulate your FlexiDeal®.

Collecting FlexiDeals^®

• Book a 1-day private course – get 1 day free
• Book a 3-day scheduled course – get 1 day free
• Book a 4-day scheduled course – get 1 day free
• Book a 5-day scheduled course – get 2 days free
  
  

See below for courses you can claim for free in the FlexiDeal^®

Acrobat

• Acrobat Essentials (1 day)
• Acrobat Introduction (2 day)
  
• Acrobat Advanced (2 day)
  
• Acrobat Forms (1 day)
• Acrobat ACE (2 day)

After Effects

• After Effects Introduction (2 day)
• After Effects Advanced (3 day)
• After Effects Masterclass (5 day)

Dreamweaver

• Dreamweaver Web Building Introduction (3 day)
• Dreamweaver Web Building Masterclass + Certification (5 day)
• Dreamweaver ACA Prep + Exam (1 day)
• Dreamweaver ACE (2 day)

Flash

• Flash Introduction (2 day)

Illustrator

• Illustrator Introduction (1 day)
• Illustrator Introduction (2 day)
• Illustrator Advanced (2 day)
• Illustrator Masterclass (4 day)
• Illustrator ACE (2 day)

InDesign

• InDesign Introduction (1 day)
• InDesign Interactive (1 day)
• InDesign Print Production (1 day)
• InDesign Introduction (2 day)
• InDesign Advanced (2 day)
• InDesign ePub (1 day)
• InDesign iPad+Android (1 day)
• InDesign Masterclass (4 day)
• InDesign ACE (2 day)

Photoshop

• Photoshop Introduction (2 day)
• Photoshop Advanced (2 day)
• Photoshop Masterclass (4 days)
• Photoshop Masterclass + Certification (5 day)
• Photoshop ACE (2 day)

Premiere Pro (Cardiff only)

• Premiere Pro Introduction (3 day)

• Premiere Pro Intermediate + Certification (2 day)
• Premiere Pro Masterclass + Certification (5 day)

How to book

Just email us confirmation of your valid booking(s) that qualified for the FlexiDeal^®.

Terms and conditions

• FlexiDeal^® is applicable only if the full RRP is paid for your course(s). Any discounting invalidates the FlexiDeal^®. If discounting has been applied you can pay back the difference in order to qualify for the offer
• The FlexiDeal^® offer lasts for 6 months from the first date of your qualifying bookings
• The FlexiDeal^® is not available to funded individuals although we might apply at our descretion depending upon the number of training days booked under the particular scheme

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After Effects Masterclass - 5 day

Cardiff Add dates to your calendar

25 - 29 June 2012

17 - 21 September 2012

29 October - 2 November 2012

 

London Farringdon Add dates to your calendar

18 - 22 June 2012

13 - 17 August 2012

8 - 12 October 2012

10 - 14 December 2012

 

 

If you don't see any suitable dates here, it might be more economical to deliver a private training course for you

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After Effects Masterclass - 5 day

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No questions, no quibbles, no problem! Should you ever need to take your course again, just let us know. Find out more…

Requirements

• Basic knowledge of Windows or Macintosh.
• Understand how to launch an application and save files.
• For web courses you will need to have knowledge of web browsers.

General information

• Courses start at 10am and finish at 5pm. Please arrive 30 minutes prior to the start of the course on the first day.
• We operate a casual dress code.
• We supply all computers, software and courseware, pads, pens, lunch and refreshments.
• We have both Apple OSX Lion and Windows 7 systems.
• Bring along a USB/Flash drive so you can take away your course files.
• Following your course, we will email you an Adobe Authorised Course Completion Certificate.
• Each course comes with either on-line assets (electronic book/PDF or movies) to download or a high-quality Visual Quickstart 500-page training book. We are migrating most course assets to on-line downloads during 2012.
• Access to a secure section of our site that offers useful tips and tricks.

Lunch

London Covent Garden and Cardiff - Flexible lunch vouchers are used and redeemable at outlets nearby such as Bella Italia, Eat, Nandos, Pizza Express, Pret A Manger, Starbucks, Sainsbury's and Tesco to name but a few.

Bristol - Look out for our designer cold buffet lunch.

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