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After Effects Advanced

Adobe After Effects CS4 Advanced

Overview
Adobe After Effects is a powerful software tool for visual effects and motion graphics. You can use After Effects’ tools to create dynamic designs for broadcast, web, DVD and film. This course will help you master the concepts and features to the program. It includes many advanced features, including tips and tricks using the latest version. We also recommend this course for those planning to obtain the Adobe Certified expert status.

Who Should Attend
Graphic professionals who want to enhance their motion editing and compositing. Experienced users will also benefit from the many tips and tricks and special exercises. Because of the amount of material we cover in class, we do require students to be comfortable using a mouse, opening and saving files, and the general operations of computers. While we will make every reasonable effort to help, students with insufficient skills may be required to observe the class lessons or do their best to keep up without slowing down the rest of the class. We highly recommend working with the application tutorial before coming to the course.

Prerequisites
Because of the amount of material we cover in class, we do require students to be comfortable using a mouse, opening and saving files, and the general operations of computers. While we will make every reasonable effort to help, students with insufficient skills may be required to observe the class lessons or do their best to keep up without slowing down the rest of the class.

What You Will Learn

  • Keyframe Complexity
  • Graphs
  • Keyframe Graphic Editor
  • Expressions
  • Render Queue
  • Path Text
  • Masks
  • Color Keying
  • Track Mattes
  • Compound Eff ects
  • Motion Stabilization and Tracking
  • Render Order/Precomposing
  • 3D Animation
  • Matrix Movie Typography

LESSON PLANS

  • Keyframes
    Different types of keyframes
    Velocity
    Keyframe shortcuts
    Keyframe graph editor
  • Type Draw, Paint All
    About Alphas
    Working with Photoshop
    Dots, Pixels and Inches
    Working with Illustrator
    Plugging in Type
  • The Matrix
    Particle Playground
  • More On Eff ects
    Production Bundle Eff ects Round-Up
    Compound Eff ects
  • Animation Assistants
    Additional Assistants
    Motion Fun
    Express Yourself
    Animation and behavior presets
  • Keying
    Using Keylight
  • Time and Tracking
    Time Remapping
    Time Games
    On Stable Ground
    Motion Tracking
    Time warp
  • Expressions
    Writing a simple expression
    Linking expressions to motion track
  • Working with 3D
    Cameras Lights
    3D Layers
  • NLE Integration
    Integration 101
    Integration with Nonlinear Editing Systems
  • Format Issues and Rendering
    Video Issues
    Playing the Field
    3:2 Pulldown Luminance and IRE Issues
    Working with D1/DV NTSC
    Working with Widescreen
    Prerendering and Proxies
    Advanced Rendering-Render Farm Concept
    What’s Your Preference?
    The Secret Preferences