Duration: 2 Days
In this course designed for videographers, graphic artists, and animators with intermediate-level Adobe After Effects experience, you will learn about the menu and tools in After Effects and how to add effects to movies with a high level of efficiency.
What You Will Learn
How to incorporate text, graphics, and effects to your movies
Audience
Videographers and animators who are somewhat experienced using Adobe After Effects
Prerequistes
- Practical working
knowledge of Mac OS X or Windows
-
Introduction to Adobe After Effects class (or equivalent experience)
- Adobe Photoshop CS6
Fundamentals: An Introduction to Photoshop class (or equivalent experience)
Course Outline
1. Parenting
- Understanding Parenting
- Simple Pickwhipping
- Parenting to a null
- Using Parenting for positioning
- Using Parenting in Special Effects
2. Other Effects
- Time remapping
- Understanding Compound Effects
- Gradient Wipe
- Displacement Map
3. Transfer Controls
- Understanding Layer Blending Modes and how to change those using shortcuts
- Using Track Mattes
- Understanding precomposing and nesting
- Stencil and Silhouette
- Preserve Transparency
4. Tracking/Stabilizing
- Understanding tracking
- Using the tracker
- Warp Stabilizer
- Track
Motion
- Using
single-point motion tracking
- Using multipoint tracking
- Stabalize Motion
- Mocha overview
- Tips
for better tracking
5. Expressions
- Introduction to Expressions
- Simple Pickwhipping
- Using expressions to animate to the rhythm of music
- Adjusting the expression direction
- Adjusting the expression parameters
- Adjusting the rate of change
- Adjusting the final value
- Creating a loop using expressions
- The wiggle expression
6. Keying
- Understanding Keying
- Shooting Techniques for easier Keying
- Using Garbage Mattes for easier Keying
- Using Keylight
- Refining the Matte
7. Using the Roto Brush Tool
- About rotoscoping
- Getting started
- Creating a segmentation boundary
- Fine-tuning the matte
- Freezing your Roto Brush tool results
- Changing the background
- Adding animated text
- Outputting your project
Course Labs
