Adobe After Effects is a digital visual effects, motion graphics, and compositing application developed byAdobe Systems and used in the post-production process of film making and television production.
Learning Outcomes
By successfully completing the course the participant will be able to do:
- Compsiting
- Animation
- Visual FX
- Color corrections
- Rendering
Getting to know the interface of Adobe after Effects
- Setting Up a project
- Interface of after effects
- Working with a footage in a project
- Setting composition window
- Timeline window
- Layer window
Importing footage and building composition
- Method of importing images
- Working with footage
- Composition window in detail
- Timeline window in detail
Working with Text
- Creating and formatting point text
- Using a text animation preset
- Animating with scale keyframes
- Animating using parenting
- Animating imported Photoshop text
- Animating text using a path animation preset
- Animating type tracking
- Animating text opacity
- Using a text animator group
- Cleaning up the path animation
- Animating a nontext layer along a motion path
- Adding motion blur
- Exporting to Adobe Flash Professional
Working with Shapes
- Adding a shape layer
- Creating custom shapes
- Creating stars
- Incorporating video and audio layers
- Applying a Cartoon eff ect
- Adding a title bar
- Using Brainstorm to experiment
Animation
- Animating the scenery using parenting
- Adjusting an anchor point
- Masking video using vector shapes
- Keyframing a motion path
- Animating additional elements
- Applying an eff ect
- Creating an animated slide show
- Adding an audio track
- Zooming in for a fi nal close-up
Color Correction
- Adjusting color balance
- Replacing the background
- Removing unwanted elements
- Correcting a range of colors
Working with 3D
- Building a 3D object
- Working with a null object
- Working with 3D text
- Creating a backdrop for 3D animation
- Nesting a 3D composition.
- Adding a camera
- Completing the scene
- Animating 3D objects
- Adding refl ections to 3D objects
- Animating a camera
- Adjusting layer timing
- Using 3D lights
- Adding eff ects Adding motion blur
Advanced Editing Techniques
- Using motion stabilization
- Using single-point motion tracking
- Using multipoint tracking
- Creating a particle simulation
- Retiming playback using the Timewarp effect
Rendering & Final Output
- Creating templates for the rendering process
- Creating templates for output modules
- Exporting to diff erent output media
