After Effects - Introduction

Knowledge of the Windows work environment, Photoshop, Illustrator or Premiere Pro is considered an asset but not mandatory.

At the end of the training session, the participant will have acquired:

• the foundation skills needed to create visual effects and motion graphics for film, video, multimedia and the web.

• Introduction
• Digital video basics
• Understanding analog versus digital
• Clarifying frame rate and resolution
• Understanding storage space
• Defining motion graphics After Effects user interface
• Creating a project
• Using the After Effects panel system
• Organizing the project window
• Using the Composition window
• Using the Timeline window
• Ram Preview vs. Standard preview Media management
• Importing media files
• Importing Photoshop & Illustrator files
• Previewing footage
• Previewing stills and video
• Previewing audio
• Trimming a video clip
• Using the interpret footage dialog box
• Looping an audio or video file Layers
• Getting to know layers and their options
• Creating a layer
• Understanding the layer switches
• Using time stretch and frame blending
• Nesting compositions/layers using
• Using precomps Keyframes
• Animating layer properties
• Understanding motion paths
• Working with layer blending
• Controlling the speed of animations
• Learning the easing principles Adding text to your project
• Creating text
• Using the Character and Paragraph palette
• Animating text with keyframes
• Animating text using presets Using Masks and alpha channels
• Masking
• Animating masks
• Working with alpha channels
• Track matte Effects
• Effect basics
• Animating effects Rendering and exporting
• Rendering to various formats
• Understanding the render queue
• Adjusting render settings
• Creating render templates
• Exporting a project file
• Rendering an individual frame