Intro to Adobe After Effects - 26th/27th April 2010 April 25, 2010

Overview

This 2-day course will help you to create motion graphics and visual effects working alongside an industry professional.

With After Effects you can create compelling motion graphics and visual effects with flexible tools that help save you time and deliver unparalleled creative power.

Course Content

Day One

- Introduction To The Interface
- Project Window
- Composition Window
- Timeline
- Layer Window
- Palettes
- Managing your workspace

- Creating a Sequence of Media Clips
- Creating a Composition
- Importing Media
- Creating Layers from Footage Items
- Positioning Layers in Time

- Animating Layers and Effects
- Animating Transform
- Properties
- Duplicating Properties
- Controlling Appearance of Vector Graphics
- Creating Animated Text
- Applying Effects
- Applying Text
- Animation Presets
- Setting Blending Modes for Layers
- Creating Solids

Day Two

- Sequencing Layers
- Precisely
- Controlling the Layer's Playback Rate
- Looping Footage Items
- Nesting Compositions
- Pre-composing Layers
- Replacing Footage within a Layer
- Setting Layer's In and Out Points
- Slip Edit Layers

- Creating Transparency
- Assigning Track Mattes
- Creating Masks

- Outputting Video Files
- Creating a Render
- Settings Template
- Creating an Output Module Template
- Rendering a Composition
- Exporting a Composition

Official Website: http://www.rave.ac.uk/shortcourses/?menu2=5&menu3=22&detail=87&nm=After+Effects%3A+An+Intro+26th%2F27th+April+2010