Adobe After Effects 101

Overview

Event Details

Thursday 10th - Friday 11th October 2019
09:30 – 17:00

Cloth Hall Court, City Campus, Leeds Beckett University

• Suitable for
• Prerequisites
• Cost
• Offer
• Additional dates
• Bespoke

Mike is a great, enthusiastic tutor. All the course materials were useful, he does a great job.
Attendee review, 6 August 2019

Adobe After Effects is an industry-standard tool for professionals working in 2D and 3D motion graphics, visual effects and compositing. It offers a powerful, flexible and affordable toolset to help you deliver creative motion content for film, video, web and mobile.

This course provides an introduction to the essential tools, techniques and operation of After Effects and will equip you with the key skills to develop the motion graphics and video content you need.

Topics will include an application overview, basic animation techniques, working with transparency and multi-layered video, applying and using basic effects, type animation, shape layers, working with nested and pre-composed compositions, and basic rendering.

Whether you already have some basic experience with After Effects or are an absolute beginner, this course will give you a strong foundation in the core of the application and an introduction to its many features, tools and effects.

On completion of this course you will be able to:

Create motion graphics and animation and render this as video in the format of your choice.
Understand the essential tools, techniques and workflow of After Effects.
Learn the main keyboard shortcuts to increase your efficiency.

Suitable for

This course is for you if:

You are working, or about to work, with video and would like to produce creative and memorable content that includes motion graphics, object animation, dynamic animated typography, visual effects or multi-layered (composited) video.
You are working with video and would like to expand your capabilities beyond the basic effects and animation tools in your editing software.
You would like to widen your skills and explore the creative possibilities of this industry-standard motion graphics, visual effects and compositing software.

Prerequisites

Not required.

Cost

£440

(The price is inclusive and as an education provider we do not charge VAT)

**** Please note our courses close 7 days prior to the start date ****

Offer

Book this course together with Adobe Premiere Pro CC as part of the Adobe Video Editing Masterclass for £905 – saving £100.

We offer a 10% discount to Leeds and Bradford Chamber of Commerce members. To claim your discount please call 0113 812 1725 and quote your Chamber membership number.

Additional dates

To keep you posted we will post upcoming additional dates for this course here. If you would like to enquire about future dates, please feel free to contact us.

Bespoke

We can design our courses to meet your specific business objectives, developing a tailored plan to deliver the results you're looking for.

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Welcome to After Effects

What is Affect Effects?
Project structure.
Interface and palettes.
Workspaces.

Basic Animation

A first After Effects project.

Keyframe Techniques

About keyframes.
Anchor point essentials.
Motion sketch.
Orient and blur.
Roving and hold.
The graph editor.

Layer control

Move, trim and slip.
Split and sequence.
Looping footage.
Image sequences.
Frame rate and time stretch.
Blending modes, effects and solids.

Effects overview

Finding and applying effects.
Effects animation and animation presets.
Adjustment layers.
Layer styles.

Working with transparency

Masks and mask animation.
Masking with the pen tool.
Alpha and luma mattes.
Multiple masks and modes.
Masks and paths for effects.

Type and type animation

Working with type.
Type on a path.
Basic type animation and presets.

Basic shape layers

Creating shapes layers.
Modifying and animating shape layers.

Parenting and nesting

Understanding parenting.
Introducing nesting and precomposing.

Rendering

Render settings and the render queue.
Rendering with Adobe Media Encoder.

What will I learn?

You will learn:

An overview of the After Effects workflow.
Project organisation and file management.
Essential keyframe animation techniques.
How to use anchor point, roving and hold keyframes and motion sketch.
An introduction to easing and the graph editor for animation refinement.
Layer management and basic layer editing.
Frame rate and time stretch options.
How to create and use solid layers, adjustment layers and blending modes.
How to find, apply, modify and animate effects.
Essential effects tour.
How to apply and use layer styles.
How to work with animation presets and Adobe Bridge.
How to work with masks.
How to use alpha and luma transparency mattes.
How to create and format type.
Animate text on a path.
The fundamentals of the text animation system.
How to use text animation presets.
How to create, modify and animate basic shape layers.
An understanding of parenting, nesting and precomposing.
How to render in After Effects and Adobe Media Encoder.

Attending the course

We are open from 09:00.

Refreshments will be available and lunch will be provided.

All the materials you will need will be provided.

Training Facilities

We’re based in the centre of Leeds at Cloth Hall Court, and we have cutting-edge facilities including the Development Studio for desktop, web and mobile platforms. The studio draws on academics with extensive high-level industrial experience in advanced programming techniques and world-class creative digital content essential to success in the creative digital industries.

Trainer & Reviews

• Mike Abbott
• Course Reviews

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Mike Abbott

Mike is a highly experienced designer, visual creative and software trainer. In addition to his training work he runs his own studio focused on digital imagery for advertising and marketing communication, serving clients in the UK, Europe and USA.

He has a broad and deep skill set across design, photographic based imagery, 3D CGI, video and motion graphics. Mike has over 15 years’ experience as a trainer and is an Adobe Certified Instructor in Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro and After Effects. He is also an Adobe Video Specialist.