Course : Adobe After Effects

Course Overview

This course is ideal for beginners to intermediate users of Adobe After Effects and contains the following modules:-

• Getting Started
  
  
  • Preferences and Settings

• The User Interface
  
  
  • The Project Window
  • The Composition Window
  • The Timeline
  • Time Controls

• Simple Compositions
  
  
  • Importing Footage
  • Importing Graphics
  • Frame Size & Levels
  • Interpreting Footage
  • Creating a Composition
  • Adding Media to a Comp
  • Moving & Trimming Clips in a Comp

• Keyframing Layers
  
  
  • Keyframing Parameters
  • Keyframes & Interpolation
  • Temporal Interpolation
  • Roving Keyframes
  • The Keyframe Assitant and Easy Ease
  • Motion Sketch
  • Using The Smoother
  • The Wiggler

• Adjustment layers and 3D Layers
  
  
  • 3D Layers
  • Orientation and Rotation
  • Lights and Shadows
  • Properties of the Light

• Advanced Layering
  
  
  • Editing Layers
  • Splitting a Layer
  • Frame Blending
  • Masking
  • Track Matte
  • Creating a Mask on a Layer
  • Feathering Mask Edges
  • Mask Opacity
  • Layer Compositing Modes
  • Applying Layer Modes
  • Nesting Compositions
  • Collapsing Transformations

• Text layers
  
  
  • Creating a Basic Text Layer
  • Numbers
  • Path Text

• Output and Rendering
  
  
  • The Make Movie Command
  • Render Settings
  • The Output Module
  • Rendering
  • The Export Command

Course Prerequisites

Those attending Adobe After Effects Training Courses should have basic computer skills and be familiar with creating folders, saving files and general navigation within the Windows environment.

Product Information

For full product information on Adobe After Effects including online ordering details, please visit the Planet PC Store.

Booking Information

Courses are held at our premises in West Yorkshire or on-site at your business premises. Courses held at our premises generally run from 9:00am to 5:00pm with two coffee breaks and a 30 minute lunch where we will supply refreshments and a buffet style lunch. Adobe After Effects One to One courses held at our premises cost £550.00 + VAT per person. If you require training at your business premises then please call for a quotation.

Contact Information

For further information or to book please contact Andrew Milburn:-

Tel: 01274 713417

e-mail: andrew@planetdv.net

Course Subsidies

If you are working freelance or as a company in film, television, video, radio or interactive media then you may be eligible for a subsidy of up to 70% towards the cost of your training course.

Click here to open the list of companies offering subsidised funding for training. This offer is not valid in conjunction with any other offer, promotion or grant aided funding.