Duration: 3 Days
After Effects CC software lets you deliver cinematic visual effects and motion graphics faster than ever before.
What You Will Learn
- Global performance cache
- Text and shape extrusion
- Mask feathering options
Audience
Video, animation, and graphics professionals who need a working knowledge of Adobe After Effects CC
Prerequistes
- Working
knowledge of Mac OS X or Windows
- Adobe Photoshop
CS6 Fundamentals: An Introduction to Photoshop class (or equivalent
experience)
Course Outline
1. Fundamentals of Motion Graphics
- RGB Color Model
- Frame Size
- Resolution
- Pixel Aspect Ratio
- Alpha
Channels
- Frame Rate
- Time Code
- Interpreting
Footage
2. Getting to Know the Workflow
- How After Effects Works
- Overview of panels
- Creating
a project and importing footage
- Creating a composition and arranging layers
- Adding effects and modifying layer properties
- Animating the composition
- Previewing your work
- Optimizing performance in After Effects
- Customizing workspaces
- Controlling the brightness of the user interface
- Finding resources for using After Effects
3. Creating a Basic Animation Using
Effects and Presets
- Importing footage using Adobe Bridge
- Importing video clips
- Importing stills
- Importing
a sequence of stills (interpreting)
- Importing multilayered photoshop and illustrator files
- Creating a new composition
- Applying effects to a layer
- Changing parameters globally
- Creating keyframes
- Keyframe
interpolation: auto, continuous, and bezier interpolation
- Temporal and spatial Interpolation
- Roving in time for spatial properties
- Creating and applying an animation preset
- Previewing your work
4. Working With Masks
- About masks
- Creating a mask
with the Pen tool
- Editing a
mask
- Feathering the edges
of a mask
- Replacing the
content of the mask
- Mask
interpolation
- Using masks
from Illustrator and Photoshop
- Masks for spatial keyframes
5. Animating Text
- About text layers
- Creating
and formatting point text vs paragraph text
- Using a text animation preset
- Text on a path
- Animating
imported Photoshop text
- Animating text using a path animation preset
- Using a text animators
- Adding properties
- Adding a
range selector
- Using a text
animator group
6. Working with Shape Layers
- Adding a shape layer
- Creating custom shapes
- Creating stars
- Default
properties of shape layers
- Add properties
- Creating
Groups
- Stack your shapes &
properties
- Using Brainstorm
to experiment
7. Other Effects
- Time remapping
- Motion
sketch
- The smoother
- The wiggler
- Auto orient
- Splitting a layer
- Adjustment layers
- The
effects and presets panel
8. Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools
- About the Puppet tools
- Adding Deform pins
- Defining
areas of overlap
- Stiffening
an area
- Animating pin
positions
- Recording
animation
9. Rendering and Output
- Creating templates for the Render Queue
- Exporting using the Render Queue
- Rendering movies with Adobe Media Encoder
Course Labs
