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After Effects Advanced Training Course Info...
Course Duration: 1 Day | Class Time: 9am - 4:30pm | Class Size: 6 Students Max
Training Room Location: Level 1, Opposite Reg. Hosp Nastech Sunyani B/A R.
Course Materials: As part of the course you will receive many useful resources and learning links to compliment your training and help you stay on track after your course.
Certificates: All students receive a certificate of achievement on completion of their course.
After Course Support: On completion of your course you will be eligible for free email and phone support*, to aid you in the development of your new skills.
FREE Course Resit: We offer you the chance to come back in the future and resit your course for FREE*, so if you want to polish your skills further or just recap on a few things this is a great option.
What you need to bring: Nothing. We supply your choice of MAC or PC computer for you to use with all software already installed and have note pads, pens etc in the training room. If you think it would be beneficial to bring some samples of your work that would be great but not essential.
Cost: GH¢ ???+GST
About our After Effects Advanced Training Course
If you're looking for After Effects training then Nastech
is here for you. We provide After Effects courses in Sydney for people
of all levels from beginners to advanced users. Nastech's
After Effects courses include the most up to date, cutting edge
techniques which enable you to do far more in even less time.
As a leader in After Effects training, Nastech continually educates people from diverse backgrounds on how to properly and most efficiently use the vast range of After Effects features. With our Sydney based After Effects training courses we train people from small businesses right through to some of Australia's biggest companies as well as individuals looking to further their Wordpress skills.
Our After Effects Advanced training course has been designed to take you to the next level making you an After Effects power user. If you want to work fast, with ease and be in total control of your video design then this course is for you. We meet you half way taking your existing skills and improving your approach to design, speeding up the time it takes to get the job done. After Effects includes many time saving features and functions that people simply aren't aware of, this course is aimed at making you aware of exactly what's possible.
COURSE DATES - SYD |
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OCT |
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After Effects Training |
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6-7 |
18-19 |
6-7 |
12-13 |
25-26 |
After Effects Advanced |
28-29 |
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25-26 |
27-28 |
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18-19 |
After Effects One-On-One |
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After Effects Mastery |
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After Effects On-Site |
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Who should attend this After Effects Advanced course?
- Users who have completed the Basic After Effects course
- Self taught After Effects users
- After Effects users who have never received professional training
- Motion graphics designers with After Effects experience
- Editors with After Effects experience
- Broadcast designers with After Effects experience
- Web designers with After Effects experience
- Motion graphics designers or editors integrating with Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro or Flash who have After Effects experience
- Students and school teachers with After Effects experience
Things you will do and skills you will gain by attending...
- Learn best practices and improve After Effects processing and workflow
- How to further harness the power of After Effects
- Advanced keying, lighting, motion tracking, rotoscoping techniques
- Use newer features such as Mocha, Roto Brush tool
- Round-trip integration with Premiere using Adobe Dynamic Link
- Advanced preferences and workflow to get best preview and render performance with After Effects
- Puppet tool, auto animators, colour correction, time remapping
- Advanced shape layers and masks
- Effectively mixing and lighting 2D and 3D layers
- More on effects, including Particles, Distortion, Keying
- Expressions
- Audio effects
- Timing audio to footage using Expressions
- Rendering projects correctly for different intent, minimizing large file sizes
- Custom list of shortcuts and tips
Course Outline
Project Settings
Timecode Base
Changing Timecode view
Color Settings
Working Space
8, 16 and 32 bit color depth
Blend Colors
Audio Settings
Advanced Composition Settings and Preferences
The square pixel preset for PAL widescreen 1024x576 trap
Advanced Preferences; setting scratch discs, memory, previews, Open GL card updates
Q&A discussion on resolution for images
Preserving pixel clarity and blending modes when using pre-comps
Managing projects
Consolidate footage
Remove Unused footage
Reduce Project
Collect footage
Collect footage for individual Comps
Collect footage for Projects
Working on servers
Recapping ways to speed up previews
Creating and using Proxies to speed up previews
Locating footage & comps in Project window
Identifying number of footage uses and in which comps
Using the Interpret Footage feature
Fixing interlacing
Animation Assistants
The Puppet Tool
The Brainstorm Feature
The Graph Editor
Motion Sketch
Smoother
Mask Interpolation
The Flowchart & mini-flowchart features
Basic Tracker
The Wiggler
Advanced Compositions
Mixing 2D and 3D layers
3D space views: Local, World, View axis modes
Using Null controllers as parents
Render order issues
Creating and using Proxies
Importing Image sequences
Using the Region of Interest to reduce nested composition size
Using snapshots
Trimming the composition to match the Work area
Adding and locking additional Comp Viewers
Adding Markers
Adding markers to footage layers
Adding markers to timeline
Adding comments to markers
Using marker comments to instruct co-workers
Using audio markers to time action
Animation and Time Remapping
Using the Graph Editor to finesse timing
Animating x and y axis separately to create bounce
Time remapping
Importing Assets from 3D applications
Importing lights & cameras from Cinema 4D
Importing tracking information from Cinema 4D
Importing from other 3D applications
Rendering animations in 3D applications for import
Fixing alphas
Interpreting footage
Expressions
Introduction to expressions and what they do
The difference between Parenting and Expressions
Linking attributes using the Expression Pickwhip
Basic commands
Creating simple variations: Wiggle, variables
Simple arithmetic and arrays
Looping time
Creating randomised properties
Using Expression Controllers: Slider, Checkbox, Angle
Animating properties of an animation to audio
Modifying 2D and 3D text preset expressions
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More Effects
Some commonly used effects
Noise & Grain: Fractal noise, Turbulent noise
Distortion effects: magnify, transform, mesh, displacement
Lighting effects: Lens flare, CC Light Wipe, CC Light Sweep
Blur & Sharpen effects: Blurs, sharpen, reduce interlace flicker
Overview of CC plug-in effects which ship with After Effects
Colour correction effects: Colorama, Leave Color, Change Color, SA Color Finesse
Time Based effects: Echo, CC Wide Time
Paint on path/mask effects: Stroke, Write-on, Paint
Effects render order issues
Audio effects
Shape Layers
Shape layer presets
Creating new shape layers
Types of shapes
Multiple shapes
Colour, line and gradients
Shape operators
Faking a 3d stroke plug in effect
Simulation and Particles
Shatter
Particle Playground
Card dance
CC Particle World
CC Mr Mercury
CC Ball Action
Third party plug-ins such as Trapcode
Keying
Colour keying options
Keying with Keylight
Keying Bluescreen and Greenscreen
Despilling
Matte Choker effect
Garbage mattes
Difference Matte
Stencils and Track mattes
Motion Tracking
Using the After Effects motion tracker
Using the Mocha plug-in included with After Effects
Position and rotation stabilisation
Tracking footage onto moving object planes
Object replacement
Compositing objects to match footage motion
Masks/Rotoscoping
Rotoscoping techniques
The Roto Brush Tool
Auto-tracing alpha channels
Set first vertex on bezier masks
Copying masks to motion paths
Copying motion paths to make masks
Lights
Simulating gels
Time of day lighting effects
Night for day lighting
Rendering and Outputting
Common CODECs
Squash and stretch output
Rendering with Alpha channels, pre-multiply vs straight alphas
Exporting a Comp XFL file for use in Flash
Exporting uncompressed video with Alpha Channels
Pre-rendering Comps for re-use in After Effects
Rendering individual frames/single frames
Want to take the next step? Our After Effects advanced training will to take you to the next level. After Effects includes many advanced features that make creative video editing more efficient giving you greater control. This After Effects Advanced course is ideal for those serious about creative editing.
