Course Overview

The Advanced After Effects Course is a great next step if you have already attended the beginners After Effects course and want to learn the more advanced features for producing motion graphics and visual effects. You will go through topics such as masking, keyframes, shapes, path animation, working with effects, 3D, tracking plus lots more.

This 2 day Instructor led Advanced After Effects Class runs at our York Centres and can also be held as a closed course at your preferred location for a team of people.

Prerequisites

• • This course is aimed at people looking to professionally edit and manipulate video files, adding post production effects to a high standard. You should have already attended the beginners After Effects course or have equivalent experience.
    

Course Content

• Animating text layers

  Animating text along a path Text Animators Animating individual characters Range selectors Advanced Range Selector features

• Nesting and Dependencies

  Precomps Editing precomps Locking panels Using Null objects

• Animation and Keyframes

  Different types of Keyframe
  Velocity
  Keyframe shortcuts
  Keyframe graph editor
  Proportional Adjustment
  Snapping to keyframes
  Keyframe Assistants
  Easy Ease
  Time reverse Keyframes
  Animation and behaviour presets
  Keyframe Interpolation
  

• Masks and Shapes

  Creating masks Importing masks from Illustrator Animating masks Shape layers Shape layer modifiers Repeater

• Path Animation

  Animating along a vector path Auto orient to the path Creating a path from a nomination path Stroke a path Scribble in a path Other path effects

• Effects

  Radio Waves Particle Effects Compound effects

• Keying

  Using Keylight Using the Roto Brush Simple Wire Removal

• Time and Tracking

  Time re-mapping Time warp Motion Tracking Tracking faces Perspective Corner pinning 3D Camera Tracking

• Working with 3D

  Understanding 3D 3D Layers The 3D Axis Cameras Lights The Unified Camera tool Integration with Cinema 4D

• Using Photoshop and Illustrator

  Working with Photoshop Working with Illustrator

• Project Management

  Collect Files Consolidate Footage Remove Unused Footage Reducing your project

Included with this course

• • Comprehensive course materials and exercises