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Adobe After Effects Essentials Course
After Effects Essentials Course
After Effects Essentials Course
After Effects enables you to create stunning motion graphics and visual effects for a variety of purposes, including infographics, animated logos, advertisements, kinetic typography (animated titles), social media, e-learning, and broadcast content. Visual effects cover a range of disciplines, including compositing, image correction, animated effects, and, in our After Effects Essentials course, an introduction to 3D animation.
Our course is designed to equip newcomers to video and graphic animation techniques, as well as self-taught individuals, with the skills to excel in this dynamic software. We expedite your learning of After Effects' essential functionality, incorporating practical exercises and a wealth of tips and techniques to enhance productivity. Our instructors, Adobe Certified and industry-experienced, are passionate about training! We recommend using the latest version - CC2024 for After Effects, which introduces techniques and workflows unavailable in earlier versions.
Delivered remotely across APAC.
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Adobe After Effects Training Courses
After Effects EssentialsAfter Effects enables you to create stunning motion graphics and visual effects for a variety of purposes, including infographics, animated logos, advertisements, kinetic typography (animated titles), social media, e-learning, and broadcast content. Visual effects cover a range of disciplines, including compositing, image correction, animated effects, and, in our After Effects Essentials course, an introduction to 3D animation. Delivered remotely across APAC.
After Effects AdvancedTake your After Effects skills to the next level! This two-day course dives deep into the program's advanced features, empowering you to create stunning 3D animations, character animations, infographics, and more. You'll learn expert tips, harness the power of expressions, and explore the integration of Cinema 4D. Delivered remotely across APAC.
Adobe After Effects Essentials Course Content
- Introduction
- After Effects Workflow
- Video Terminology
- SMPTE Timecode
- After Effects Interface
- Importing Footage
- Importing Assets
- Looping Video Footage
- Importing Photoshop & Illustrator Files
- Converting Photoshop Text Layers
- Continuous Rasterize
- Starting a Project
- Setting up a Project
- Setting up a Composition
- Layers and the Timeline
- Animating Layers Independently
- Trimming and Moving Layers
- Uninterrupted Previews - Customising Preview Panel
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Understanding Keyframes
- Layer Attributes/Transform Properties
- Viewing Layer Attributes Efficiently
- Changing the Anchor Point
- Creating Keyframes
- Auto Orient along Path
- Keyframe Assistants
- Copying and Pasting Keyframes
- Spatial (Position) and Temporal (Speed) Interpolation
- Simultaneously Editing Keyframes
- Moving Motion Paths
- Retiming Animations
- Efficiently View Keyframes
- View All changed Properties + Keyframes
- Linking Methods in After Effects
- Parent/Child Relationships
- Pre-Compose/Nesting Duplicating Layers
- Duplicating and Modifying Composition Copies
- Social Media Formats, eg. Instagram
- Workflow for Animated Gifs
- Working with Effects
- Applying Effects
- Animating Effects
- Sharpening and Other Useful Effects
- Wipes, Path Effects
- Using Adjustment Layers
- Blending Modes
- Adding Photoshop Layer Styles to Layers and Text
- Working with Text
- Text Layers
- Text Attributes, Source Text
- Animating Text
- Text on a Path
- Finding and Applying Presets - 'Reverse Engineering' Layers in Compositions
- Editing and Saving Custom Animation Presets
- Using Masks
- Drawing Mask Shapes
- Mask Properties
- Scale/Rotate/Move Masks
- Editing Mask Shapes
- Animating Masks
- Track Mattes and Alpha Channels
- Creating Track Mattes
- Blending Modes
- Motion Tracking
- Motion Stabilization
- Tracking Moving Footage
- Keying Techniques (Green Screen)
- Understanding the Keying Workflow
- Using Keylight Effects
- Time Stretching - Speed Change
- Changing Playback Speed
- Reverse Speed
- Shape Tools
- Drawing and Animating Shapes
- Creating Graphs and Charts for Infographics
- Converting Illustrator Files to Shape Layers
- Adding Animators to Shapes
- Animating Shape Layer Paths
- Adding Animated, Repeating Elements
- Introduction to Working in 3D Space
- Creating a Layer in 3D Space
- Animating a Layer in 3D Space
- 3D Text Animation
- Final Rendering - Saving Your Work
- Adding your Project to the Render Queue
- Using Adobe Media Encoder to Output .mp4 Files for Web
- Render Settings for Multiple Outputs
- Understanding Video Formats
- TV Broadcast and Web Standards - Common DV Codecs
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Remote Training?
Remote training at Nexacu, means our team of experienced trainers will deliver your training virtually. With remote learning students can access our usual classroom training courses via video conferencing, ask questions, participate in discussion and share their screen with the trainer if they need help at any point in the course. Students have the same level of participation and access to the trainer as they would in classroom training sessions.
Which courses are available if I am working from home?
Currently all of our Public Courses are available to be delivered remotely. Book any course as normal and you will receive login details and instructions in the days before your course.
How can I prepare if I am attending an online course?
You need to install the latest version of Adobe After Effects and ensure you have the appropriate license to use it.
The browser you use is very important. It is recommended you use Chrome, Edge, or Firefox. The latest version must also be installed. Note that Internet Explorer is not compatible with our delivery technologies.
Windows 10 is highly recommended as the operating system you use. If you are using an apple device, use Safari or a similar modern browser if you cannot use any of the browsers recommended above. Your training experience may diminish due to different features and appearances. Nexacu's trainers are unable to provide detailed guidance for macOS.
To download and unzip files, log in to your student portal. Click on the "Materials" tab and download your exercise files.
Extract your Exercise Files to the specified folder below. Note you will have to create this folder first.
