After Effects Training

Intro to After Effects

• What is After Effects?
  
• What kind of media can it be used to create?
  
• What kind of media can be imported into After Effects?
  
• The advantages of Adobe product integration
• Best practices for organizing your work
  
• A typical After Effects workflow sequence

After Effects Project Management

• What kind of media output is required?
  
• What is the playback format for final output?
  
• What restrictions are there for the
  
• projects physical window frame size?
  
• What restrictions are there for the projects frame rate?
  
• What restrictions are there for graphical screen-based assets?

Setting Up an After Effects Project

• RAM and real-time rendering
  
• Setting Preferences
  
• Creating a Composition
  
• Understanding and navigating the After Effects workspace
  
• Working with After Effects Tools

Importing and Manipulating GRAPHICS

• Importing Photoshop layered files
  
• Importing Illustrator layered files
  
• Working with layers and properties
  
• Animating layer properties
  
• Round-trip Editing:Editing graphics using an external editor from within After Effects

Importing and Manipulating VIDEO CLIPS

• Importing QuickTime movies
  
• Video compression issues
  
• Time-base issues
  
• Frame rate issues
  
• Laying video clips into the Time Layout Window
  
• Changing video clip properties
  
• Animating video clips
  
• Superimposing video clips

Importing and Manipulating SOUND

• Importing Sound
  
• Audio compression issues
  
• Manipulating sound cues in the Time Layout Window
  
• Synching sound to visual events
  
• Sound filters
  
• Sound processing effects

Creating TEXT and TITLES

• Importing text as bitmap graphics
  
• Creating text within After Effects
  
• Editing imported text within After Effects

Working with EFFECTS AND TRANSITIONS

• Working with visual effects
  
• Working with visual effect transitions

Working with MASKS

• Transparency in the After Effects environment
  
• Understanding alpha channels, masks, mattes, and keying
  
• Creating masks in After Effects

Importing and Manipulating PREMIERE

• Understanding Adobe Premiere
  
• Importing Premiere projects into After Effects
  
• Editing Premiere files using Premiere as an
  external editor from within After Effects
  
• Editing After Effects files using After Effects as an
  external editor from within Premiere

Final Project File RENDERING

• Testing for final export
  
• Final file rendering for a variety of output formats
  
• Choosing rendering options