Adobe After Effects 101

Overview

Event Details

Monday 6th - Tuesday 7th April 2020
09:30 – 17:00

Broadcasting Place, City Campus, Leeds Beckett University

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

Mike has been a great tutor! Knowledgeable & friendly and always willing to go back and explain in more detail.
Attendee review, 23 January 2020

Adobe After Effects is an industry standard for professionals working in 2D and 3D motion graphics, visual effects, and compositing. It offers a powerful and flexible toolset, enabling you to create animation and video content for any end use - from film and TV, though to web and social media.

This two day course offers an introduction to the essential tools, techniques and operation of After Effects. Topics include: worklow overview, interface and navigation, keyframe animation, working with transparency, basic shape layers, applying and using effects, type animation presets, and basic rendering.

This course is designed to provide a solid foundation in the basic operation of the software, and an introduction to it's most used features, tools and effects.

Suitable for

We recommend this course, 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

No previous After Effects or video experience is required.

Delegates should be comfortable performing basic operations with the computer operating system of their choice - Mac OS or Windows, such as working with file open and save dialogs, creating folders and other common tasks.

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 101 as part of the Adobe Video Editing 101 Masterclass for £800 – saving £80.

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 AE?
The After Effects workflow
Interface and navigation

An Introductory After Effects Project

Covering the basics of asset and project management, compositions, timeline management, keyframing and keyframe types, applying effects, adding audio, and rendering with Adobe Media Encoder.

Working with Compositions

Creating and modifying compositions
Comps from layered files
Working with multiple compositions

More Animation Control

Anchor point essentials
Hold and roving keyframes
Motion sketch and orient to path
Basic speed control in the graph editor

Layer Control

Move, trim, split and sequence
Layer and footage windows
Blending modes
Audio layers and markers

Working with Transparency

Masking with shapes and pen
Basic mask animation
Alpha and luma mattes

Basic Shape Layers

Creating 'single shape' shape layers
Animating shape properties and appearance

Working with Text

Basic type formatting
Source text animation
Text on a path
Text animation presets

Getting Started with Effects

Applying and animating effects
Masking effects
Solids and effects
Using effects presets

What will I learn?

On completion of this course you will be able to:

Understand the workflow and essential tools and techniques of After Effects.
Create a basic motion graphics animation and render this as video in a common format.
Use essential keyboard shortcuts to increase your efficiency.

Attending the course

We are open from 09:00.

Refreshments will be available and a lunch voucher will be provided for use at any Leeds Beckett food outlet.

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.