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Adobe After Effects Advanced Training Course

 

Adobe After Effects CS3 Advanced
Duration: 3 days
Adobe After Effects CS3

Course Synopsis: Adobe After Effects is a powerful software tool for visual effects and motion graphics. You can use After Effects’ tools to create dynamic designs for broadcast, web, DVD and film. This course will help you master the concepts and features to the program. It includes many advanced features, including tips and tricks using the latest version. We also recommend this course for those planning to obtain the Adobe Certified expert status.

Who Should Attend: Graphic professionals who want to enhance their motion editing and compositing. Experienced users will also benefit from the many tips and tricks and special exercises.

Prerequisites: Because of the amount of material we cover in class, we do require students to be comfortable using a mouse, opening and saving files, and the general operations of computers. While we will make every reasonable effort to help, students with insufficient skills may be required to observe the class lessons or do their best to keep up without slowing down the rest of the class. We highly recommend working with the application tutorial before coming to the course.

What You Will Learn:
• Keyframe Complexity
• Keyframe Graphic Editor
• Graphs
• Render Queue
• Path Text
• Masks
• Color Keying
• Track Mattes
• Compound Effects
• Motion Stabilization and Tracking
• Render Order/Precomposing
• 3D Animation
• Matrix Movie Typography
• Expressions

Time: Class time is 9:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. Breaks are scheduled throughout the day and lunch is typically scheduled 12-1. Students provide their own lunch.

Locations: We have company-operated facilities in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, San Diego and Washington DC. We also work with a network of rental facilities to offer our classes regularly across the United States and in Canada. Please double-check the location of your class with our office to make sure you get to the right location.

Related Courses:We recommend the following courses that relate to this class: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, and Apple Final Cut Pro. Please take a look at our other course outlines.

Goals: Sterling Ledet and Associates realizes the importance of education and we take pride in being able to offer you classes that are more custom fit to your needs. Call us at (770) 414-5007 if you have any special questions or e-mail us at sales@ledet.com.

Registration: Please fill out our registration form and fax it to us at (312) 896-9094.


Adobe AfterEffects Advanced Training Course Outline

 

LESSON 1
Keyframes
• Different types of keyframes
• Velocity
• Keyframe shortcuts
• Keyframe graph editor


LESSON 2
Type Draw, Paint
• All About Alphas
• Working with Photoshop
• Dots, Pixels and Inches
• Working with Illustrator
• Plugging in Type


LESSON 3
The Matrix
• Particle Playground


LESSON 4
More On Effects
• Production Bundle Effects Round-Up
• Compound Effects


LESSON 5
Animation Assistants
• Additional Assistants
• Motion Fun
• Express Yourself
• Animation and behavior presets


LESSON 6
Keying
• Using Keylight


LESSON 7
Time and Tracking
• Time Remapping
• Time Games
• On Stable Ground
• Motion Tracking
• Time warp

LESSON 8
Expressions
• Writing a simple expression
• Linking expressions to motion track


LESSON 9
Working with 3D
• Cameras
• Lights
• 3D Layers


LESSON 10
NLE Integration
• Integration 101
• Integration with Nonlinear Editing Systems


LESSON 11
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

 

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