Adobe After Effects (2024) Course



Course Details:

Length: 3 days

Price: $1,360/person (USD)

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Training Reviews

Course Features:

Live Instructor Teaching

Certificate of Completion

Digital Badge

Courseware: Print

Free 6 Month Online Retake

Hands-On Learning?: Yes

Software Lab Included?: Yes

Delivery Methods:

Live Online

Individuals and Groups
@ Your Location

Onsite for Teams

Group Teams
@ Your Organization

This is an instructor-led course. It is taught by an instructor live online or at organizations for groups.
For a team After Effects course near me, we can teach onsite at your office or private live online.

 


Course Overview

Unleash Your Inner Mastermind: Master Motion Graphics with Adobe After Effects 2024

Ready to bring your creative visions to life with stunning animation and effects? This intensive 3-day Adobe After Effects training course is your launchpad to becoming a motion graphics guru!

No prior experience? No sweat! We'll guide you step-by-step, starting with the basics and propelling you towards pro-level skills. Conquer the latest 2024 features, and unlock the secrets to:

  • Effortlessly animate text, images, and 3D objects. Breathe life into your ideas with captivating motion.
  • Master color correction and visual effects. Transform ordinary footage into cinematic masterpieces.
  • Craft engaging motion graphics templates. Save time and impress clients with reusable animations.
  • Become a rotoscoping whiz. Seamlessly remove unwanted objects or isolate elements with precision.
  • Dive into the world of 3D. Design stunning 3D graphics and create dynamic camera movements.

And much, much more! Explore essential tools, advanced techniques, and industry-standard workflows.

This course is your passport to:

  • Getting started in animation and motion graphics. The demand for skilled professionals is skyrocketing!
  • Boosting your social media presence. Stand out from the crowd with eye-catching visuals.
  • Creating professional video content. Elevate your marketing, presentations, and personal projects.

Don't just watch amazing motion graphics – create them! Enroll now and unleash your creative potential with Adobe After Effects 2024!

 


Course Notes

Register Early: Registration Deadline is 2 Weeks Prior to Class Start.

Important Course Information
Course Taught with Courseware: Adobe After Effects 2024.
Course Taught with Software: Adobe After Effects 2024 for Windows ().
Versions that Can Attend: Adobe After Effects 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, & 2019 for Windows () or Macintosh - iOS ().
Course Objectives
  • Master the After Effects Interface & Workflow: Navigate confidently, understand key concepts, and optimize performance.
  • Create Captivating Motion Graphics: Animate text, images, and 3D objects, apply effects, and manipulate timing with precision.
  • Become a Visual Effects Pro: Apply color correction, remove unwanted elements, and utilize advanced techniques for seamless visual manipulation.
  • Craft Reusable Motion Graphics Templates: Save time and create impressive animations for diverse projects.
  • Unlock the Power of 3D: Design stunning 3D graphics, animate objects, and master camera movements.
  • Render & Output for Different Media: Prepare your creations for film, video, web, mobile, and more.
  • Develop Industry-Standard Techniques: Hone your skills with pro-level workflows and expert tips.
Target Audience
Delivery Method

 

Related Exams & Certifications


Exams
  • This course prepares students for the ACP in Visual Effects & Motion Graphics Using Adobe After Effects Exam.
Certifications
Certification Notes: Certification exams are administered by third party testing companies. Our course teaches topics that can be useful with certification exam(s), which is an additional fee paid to the testing provider. You must contact the corresponding testing provider to take a certification exam.

 


Course Topics

Adobe After Effects 2024

Course Duration - 3 Days

GETTING STARTED
  • About Classroom in a Book
  • Prerequisites
  • Installing After Effects, Bridge, and Media Encoder
  • Activating fonts
  • Optimizing performance
  • Restoring default preferences
  • Online content
  • How to use these lessons
  • Additional resources
  • Adobe Authorized Training Centers
GETTING TO KNOW THE WORKFLOW
  • About the After Effects work area
  • Getting started
  • Creating a project and importing footage
  • Creating a composition and arranging layers
  • About 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
  • Using the Properties panel
  • Optimizing performance in After Effects
  • Rendering and exporting your composition
  • Customizing workspaces
  • Controlling the brightness of the user interface
  • Collaborating in After Effects
  • Finding resources for using After Effects
  • Review questions and answers
CREATING A BASIC ANIMATION USING EFFECTS AND PRESETS
  • Getting started
  • Creating a new composition
  • Working with imported Illustrator layers
  • Applying effects to a layer
  • Applying and controlling effects
  • Applying an animation preset
  • Precomposing layers for a new animation
  • Previewing the effects
  • Adding transparency
  • Rendering the composition
  • Review questions and answers
ANIMATING TEXT
  • Getting started
  • About text layers
  • Installing a font using Adobe Fonts
  • Creating and formatting point text
  • Animating with scale keyframes
  • Using a text animation preset
  • About Adobe Bridge
  • Animating imported Photoshop text
  • Animating type tracking
  • Animating text opacity
  • Animating an image to replace text
  • Using a text animator group
  • About text animator groups
  • Animating a layer’s position
  • Adding motion blur
  • Review questions and answers
WORKING WITH SHAPE LAYERS
  • Getting started
  • Creating the composition
  • Adding a shape layer
  • Creating a self-animating shape
  • Duplicating a shape
  • Creating custom shapes with the Pen tool
  • Positioning layers with snapping
  • Animating a shape
  • Animating using parenting
  • Using nulls to connect points
  • About parent and child layers
  • Previewing the composition
  • Animating layers to match audio
  • Review questions and answers
ANIMATING A MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION
  • Getting started
  • 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
  • Supported audio file formats
  • Adding an audio track
  • Editing audio files in Adobe Audition
  • Review questions and answers
ANIMATING LAYERS
  • Getting started
  • Preparing layered Photoshop files
  • Simulating lighting changes
  • Duplicating an animation using the pick whip
  • About Photoshop layer styles
  • Using a track matte to confine animation
  • About expressions
  • About track mattes and traveling mattes
  • Animating using the Corner Pin effect
  • Simulating a darkening sky
  • Viewing render times for layers
  • Retiming the composition
  • Review questions and answers
WORKING WITH MASKS
  • About masks
  • Getting started
  • Creating a mask with the Pen tool
  • Tips for creating masks
  • Editing a mask
  • About mask modes
  • Feathering the edges of a mask
  • Replacing the content of the mask
  • Creating a Bezier mask
  • Zooming and panning by touch
  • Adjusting the opacity
  • Adding a shadow
  • Creating a vignette
  • Using the Rectangle and Ellipse tools
  • Review questions and answers
DISTORTING OBJECTS WITH THE PUPPET TOOLS
  • Getting started
  • About the Puppet tools
  • Adding Position pins
  • Adding Advanced and Bend pins
  • Defining areas of overlap
  • Stiffening an area
  • Squash and stretch
  • Animating pin positions
  • Using the Puppet tools to animate video
  • Recording animation
  • Extra credit
  • Review questions and answers
USING THE ROTO BRUSH TOOL
  • About rotoscoping
  • Getting started
  • Creating a segmentation boundary
  • Editing Adobe Premiere Pro clips with After Effects
  • 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
  • Extra credit
  • Review questions and answers
ADJUSTING COLOR AND MOOD
  • Getting started
  • Previewing your project on a video monitor
  • Detecting scenes in a composition
  • Making color enhancements
  • Adding a colorized effect
  • Replacing a background
  • Color-correcting using Auto Contrast
  • Cloning an object in a scene
  • Darkening a scene
  • Freezing the action
  • Adding transitions
  • Review questions and answers
CREATING MOTION GRAPHICS TEMPLATES
  • Getting started
  • Preparing a master composition
  • Setting up a template
  • Adding properties to the Essential Graphics panel
  • Protecting the timing of a section
  • Exporting the template
  • Creating essential properties
  • Extra credit
  • Review questions and answers
USING 3D FEATURES
  • Getting started
  • Creating a 3D shape in After Effects
  • Viewing the 3D ground plane
  • Using the 3D Transform Gizmo
  • Importing 3D objects
  • About importing 3D objects
  • Creating 3D text
  • Converting 2D objects to 3D
  • Using 3D views
  • Using the camera tools
  • Adding a background
  • Lighting a scene
  • Adding a camera
  • Using HDR images as lights
  • Animating objects in a 3D scene
  • Animating a camera
  • 3D channel effects
  • Working with Cinema 4D Lite
  • Review questions and answers
WORKING WITH THE 3D CAMERA TRACKER
  • About the 3D Camera Tracker effect
  • Getting started
  • Tracking the footage
  • Repairing rolling shutter distortions
  • Creating a ground plane, a camera, and the initial text
  • Creating additional text elements
  • Locking an image to a plane with a solid layer
  • Adjusting the camera’s depth of field
  • Tidying the composition
  • Adding a final object
  • Creating realistic shadows
  • Adding ambient light
  • Adding an effect
  • Previewing the composition
  • Review questions and answers
ADVANCED EDITING TECHNIQUES
  • Getting started
  • Stabilizing a shot
  • Bicubic scaling
  • Warp Stabilizer VFX settings
  • Removing motion blur
  • Using single-point motion tracking
  • Moving and resizing the track points
  • Removing unwanted objects
  • Checking for drift
  • Creating a particle simulation
  • Mocha AE
  • Understanding Particle Systems II properties
  • About high dynamic range (HDR) footage
  • Retiming playback using the Timewarp effect
  • Review questions and answers
RENDERING AND OUTPUTTING
  • Getting started
  • About rendering and output
  • Exporting using the Render Queue
  • Preparing movies for mobile devices
  • Creating templates for the Render Queue
  • Rendering movies with Adobe Media Encoder
  • About compression
  • Preparing a movie for broadcast output
  • Review questions and answers
APPENDIX: TOOLS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING

INDEX

 


Course FAQs

This course is taught by a live instructor and is available in two class formats:

  1. Live Online for Individuals
  2. Onsite/Online for Private Groups

 



 


Related Adobe After Effects Information:

Public instructor-led Adobe After Effects course prices start at $1,360 per student. Group training discounts are available.

Self-Paced Adobe After Effects eLearning courses cost $300 at the starting point per student. Group purchase discounts are available.







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