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Course Outline | Adobe After Effects —Level 1

THE AFTER EFFECTS WORKFLOW

  • Creating a project and importing footage
  • Creating a composition and arranging layers
  • Adding effects and modifying layer properties
  • Animating the composition
  • Previewing your work
  • Optimizing performance in After Effects
  • Rendering and exporting your composition
  • Customizing the workspace
  • Controlling the brightness of the user interface
  • Finding resources for using After Effects

CREATING A BASIC ANIMATION USING EFFECTS AND PRESETS

  • Importing footage using Adobe Bridge
  • Creating a new composition
  • Working with imported Illustrator layers
  • Applying effects to a layer
  • Applying an animation preset
  • Previewing the effects
  • Adding transparency
  • Rendering the composition

ANIMATING TEXT

  • About text layers
  • Creating and formatting point text
  • Using a text animation preset
  • Animating with scale keyframes
  • Animating using parenting
  • Animating imported Photoshop text
  • Animating text using a path animation preset
  • Animating type tracking
  • Animating text opacity
  • Using a text animator group
  • Cleaning up the path animation
  • Animating a nontext layer along a motion path
  • Adding motion blur

WORKING WITH SHAPE LAYERS

  • Adding a shape layer
  • Creating custom shapes
  • Creating stars
  • Incorporating video and audio layers
  • Applying a Cartoon effect
  • Adding a title bar
  • Using Brainstorm to experiment

ANIMATING A MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION

  • Animating the scenery using parenting
  • Adjusting an anchor point
  • Masking video using vector shapes
  • Keyframing a motion path
  • Animating additional elements
  • Applying an effect
  • Creating an animated slide show
  • Adding an audio track
  • Zooming in for a final close-up

ANIMATING LAYERS

  • Simulating lighting changes
  • Duplicating an animation using the pick whip
  • Animating movement in the scenery
  • Adjusting the layers and creating a track matte
  • Animating the shadows
  • Adding a lens flare effect
  • Animating the clock
  • Retiming the composition

WORKING WITH MASKS

  • About masks
  • Creating a mask with the Pen tool
  • Editing a mask
  • Feathering the edges of a mask
  • Replacing the content of the mask
  • Adding a reflection
  • Creating a vignette
  • Adjusting the color

DISTORTING OBJECTS WITH THE PUPPET TOOLS

  • About the Puppet tools
  • Adding Deform pins
  • Defining areas of overlap
  • Stiffening an area
  • Animating pin positions
  • Recording animation

PERFORMING COLOR CORRECTION

  • Adjusting color balance
  • Replacing the background
  • Removing unwanted elements
  • Correcting a range of colors
  • Warming colors with the Photo Filter effect

BUILDING 3D OBJECTS

  • Building a 3D object
  • Working with a null object
  • Working with 3D text
  • Creating a backdrop for 3D animation
  • Nesting a 3D composition
  • Adding a camera
  • Completing the scene

USING 3D FEATURES

  • Animating 3D objects
  • Adding reflections to 3D objects
  • Animating a camera
  • Adjusting layer timing
  • Using 3D lights
  • Adding effects
  • Adding motion blur
  • Previewing the entire animation

WORKING WITH THE 3D CAMERA TRACKER

  • About the 3D Camera Tracker effect
  • Tracking the footage
  • Creating a camera and the initial text
  • Creating realisting shadows
  • Adding Ambient light
  • Creating additional text elements
  • Locking a layer to a place with a null object
  • Animating the text
  • Adjusting the camera's depth of field
  • Rendering the composition

ADVANCED EDITING TECHNIQUES

  • Using the Warp Stabilizer
  • Using single-point motion tracking
  • Using multipoint tracking
  • Creating a particle simulation
  • Retiming playback using the Timewarp Effect

USING THE ROTO BRUSH TOOL

  • About rotoscoping
  • Creating a segmentation boundary
  • Fine-tuning the matte
  • Creating a transition from the full clip to the foreground

RENDERING AND OUTPUTTING 354

  • Creating templates for the rendering process
  • Creating templates for output modules
  • Exporting to different output media

Course Outline | Adobe After Effects — Level 2

Advanced Animation: Manipulating keyframes to create more refined animations

  • Keyframe basics
  • The Work Area
  • Anchor Point overview
  • Pan Behind tool
  • Motion control moves
  • The Graph Editor
  • Speed versus Value Graphs
  • Panning and zooming time
  • Editing graph curves
  • Easing animations
  • Graph Editor Sets
  • Separate Dimensions
  • Motion Sketch
  • Smoother
  • Auto-Orient
  • Motion Blur
  • Roving Keyframes
  • Time-Reverse Keyframes
  • Hold keyframes
  • Time display and timecode

Layer Control: Learning how to trim layers and enhance them using Blending Modes and effects

  • Layers and stacking order
  • Moving layers in time trimming layers
  • Trimming in the Layer and Footage panels
  • Slip editing
  • Sequence Layers assistant
  • Looping footage
  • Image sequences
  • Changing the frame rate; Time Stretch
  • Blending Modes
  • Effects and solids
  • Effect motion path
  • Effects & Presets panel
  • Searching for effects
  • Animation Presets
  • Behavior presets
  • Layer Styles
  • Adjustment Layers
  • Filmic glow
  • Non-square pixels

Creating Transparency: Using masks, mattes, and stencils to cut out portions of a layer

  • Masking tools, creating mask shapes
  • Rounded Rectangle tool
  • Free Transform Points
  • Masking in the Layer panel
  • Mask Feather
  • Animating a mask path
  • Creating a vignette; Mask Expansion
  • Masking with the Pen tool
  • Creating and editing Bezier masks
  • Effecting a masked area
  • Controlling mask path interpolation
  • Using effects with the mask path
  • Mask Modes and multiple masks
  • Mask Opacity
  • Creating and editing RotoBezier masks
  • Audio Spectrum Effect
  • Alpha Track Matte
  • Nesting a track matte composite
  • Luma Track Matte
  • Animating matte layers
  • Stencil Alpha and Stencil Luma
  • Effects with track mattes and stencils

Type and Music: Animating text and working with music, essential skills in motion graphics design

  • Creating basic text
  • Creating Text Animators, Range Selectors
  • Animating text transform properties
  • Randomizing the order of characters
  • Creating cascading text
  • Working with selection Shapes
  • Setting the text Anchor Point
  • Animating by words
  • Title safe areas
  • Animating text Blur and Tracking
  • Text on a path
  • Per-character 3D animators
  • Separating fields
  • Adding the Wiggly Selector
  • Rendering with an alpha channel
  • Field rendering
  • Adding sound to a camp
  • Add comp and layer markers
  • Applying Text Animation Presets
  • Customizing presets
  • Saving text animations as presets
  • Editing Photoshop Text layers

Parenting and Nesting: Grouping layers to make them easier to coordinate

  • Parenting, nesting, and expressions defined
  • Assigning a parent
  • Parenting, opacity, and effects
  • Parenting with null objects
  • Using guides
  • Nesting comps
  • Editing precomps
  • Navigating composition hierarchies
  • Nesting a common source
  • Sizing precomps
  • Locking panels
  • Precomposing a group of layers
  • Precomposing a single layer
  • Render order explained
  • Splitting work between comps
  • Using precomposing to re-order
  • Continuously rasterized layers

Expressions and Time Games: Using expressions and playing with time

  • Using the pick whip to create expressions
  • Altering expressions
  • Stabilizing shadows
  • Matching value ranges (the linear expression)
  • Looping keyframes
  • Expression tips
  • The wiggle expression
  • Expression controllers
  • Keyframing the wiggle expression
  • Creating a master controller
  • Converting sound to keyframes
  • Frame blending
  • Pixel Motion
  • Stop motion tricks
  • Preserve Frame Rate
  • Creating freeze frames
  • Time Remapping

3D Space: Adding a new dimension to your animations

  • Enabling layers for 3D
  • Moving layers in 3D space
  • How layers stack in 3D
  • 3D rotation and orientation
  • Multiplaning effects
  • 3D motion paths
  • Multiple views
  • Camera settings
  • Customizing 3D views
  • Camera track and orbit tools
  • Moving and animating cameras
  • Layer and camera auto-orientation
  • 3D lights
  • Vignettes; animating lights
  • Casting shadows
  • OpenGL and Fast Previews
  • Vanishing Point Exchange
  • Photoshop 3D Layers
  • Adding dimension to stills
  • Editing stills for 3D

Advanced Track and Key: Tackle several essential skills for creating special effects

  • Creating track points
  • Important Tracker options
  • Applying stabilization
  • Compensating for stabilized footage
  • Fixing bad tracks
  • Tracking interlaced footage
  • Motion tracking
  • Applying a motion track
  • Radio Waves effect
  • Applying tracks to effect points
  • Perspective corner pin tracking
  • Bezier Warp effect
  • Stabilizing Position, Rotation, and Scale
  • Interpolating obscured tracks
  • Working with high-definition footage
  • Keying using the Keylight effect
  • Improving keyed composites
  • Creating garbage mattes

Exploring Paint and Brainstorm

  • Basic painting
  • Erasing strokes
  • Paint Channels
  • Paint Blending Modes
  • Brush duration bar
  • Animating strokes
  • Revealing a layer
  • Creating organic textures
  • Tablet settings
  • Cloning
  • Transforming strokes
  • Vector Paint effect

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Instructor

Rich Baim

An Adobe Certified Instructor for Adobe Premiere Pro with over twenty years of video editing experience. Rich has a Master of Science degree in Instructional Media and was one of the beta testers for Premiere Pro 1.5. He currently works in the eLearning department at a technology center and specializes in streaming media for health education. Rich emphasizes real-world problem solving and provides "hands-on" experiences for students.

Margaret A. Gaeddert

Margaret "Margee" Gaeddert, is a certified professional designer and owner of G Art & Design in Oklahoma City. A 30 year career in design as an art director, graphic designer, illustrator, and web designer has awarded her regional, national and international awards. She has worked with Fortune 500 and 1000 corporations such as AOL, Avon, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co, Sony Music, CNBC.com and Gucci. Local corporations include American Fidelity, KOCO Television, Metropolitan Library Association and Sperry Van Ness. She teaches design at the University of Central Oklahoma. Gaeddert enjoys serving on the board of the Oklahoma Watercolor Association, and two design advisory boards supporting education in Oklahoma. She holds a bachelor's of fine arts degree and is an accomplished award winning fine artist in watercolor media, calligraphy and caricature art.

Jason Gaines

Mr. Gaines is a certified professional in both Logic Pro 8 and Soundtrack 2. He is currently in demand as an instructor of both applications. Current projects include independent film work and collaboration on the television series, LA Ink. Jason Gaines is a New York City based trumpeter, composer and arranger. He has performed and recorded with some of the most influential performers in the jazz idiom including Arturo Sandoval, Roy Hargrove, Joshua Redman, Freddie Hubbard, Jackie McLean, Gerald Wilson and others. He holds degrees from Manhattan School of Music, New York University and Teachers College, Columbia University.

Foster Johnson

Foster Johnson is one of only a handful of instructors with multiple Adobe Creative Suite Master Designations. He currently holds one each for Web, Video and Design. An Adobe Certified Instructor since 2006, he provides relevant instruction due to real world work experience with the entire Adobe Creative Suite. He maintains application development and interactive concentrations in HTML 5, CSS, PHP, SQL, AJAX, XML and JavaScript. Mr. Johnson is the Owner and lead Pre Visualization Producer for Clarendon Cr Design in Southern California. He has 16 years of professional creative development and management experience in interactive, entertainment, advertising and print. He is an architect of numerous web based commerce and database connectivity solutions, as well as a developer of e-commerce systems for telecoms and Southern California entertainment studios. He is a specialist in digital photography and video for broadband.

Rick Allen Lippert

Rick Allen Lippert is president of Lippert Media in Oklahoma City with 30 years experience on both sides of the camera. Specializing in industrial production, he has won numerous awards for his writing, producing, and directing for clients such as the Oklahoma Arts Institute, Oklahoma City University, the City of Oklahoma City, the University of Central Oklahoma, the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration.His commercial clients include CompSource Oklahoma and Dane Design. Rick has been using Final Cut Pro since version 1.25. As an adjunct instructor, he teaches video production at Oklahoma City Community College and media writing at the University of Oklahoma.

Kiri Roberts

Kiri Christopher Roberts is the creative director of One Media USA, a media production house located in Albany, NY. Born in Zimbabwe, Kiri migrated to the UK where he received a Masters in Audio Production from the University of Westminster in London. With a diverse international experience he has worked on music production, TV commercials, documentary films, music videos and currently ‘Frozen River’ the movie. Kiri is also a contributing writer for the Edit-Well magazine whose editor is Larry Jordan of LA. Kiri balances his time between his business and as a trainer for Apple Pro Apps. He is an Apple Certified end user and trainer for Motion, FCP, STP & Logic.

Adam Karneboge

Adam Karneboge, an avid road warrior and trainer for Metro Technology Centers, is a partner, and Director of Services & Technology, for MacSpecialist, a full-service Apple shop with locations in Villa Park and Chicago, IL. Adam is an Apple Certified Macintosh Technician, Apple Certified Technical Coordinator and Apple Certified System Administrator, teaching all of Apple's IT courses. including Xsan. Over the past five years, Adam has taught more than 160 classes for Apple, MacSpecialist, AATC's, and various companies and school districts, to outstanding reviews. He is also an avid fan who wholeheartedly stands with the Chicago Cubs. He wants you to know that he has a brick in the pavement outside Wrigley Field reading, "The Karneboge's, If It Takes Forever.”

Rob Daniels

Rob Daniels is President and Owner of Tech Wyze, Inc., in Kansas City, a computer consulting and training company. Rob began his career in professional digital photography in the early 1990s and found himself supporting his employer's computer imaging systems. After making a transition into the IT world, he became network manager of a publishing company and spent four years training graphics professionals across North America. Later, Rob established his own IT company to support such clients as Hallmark Cards, Kansas City Power & Light, and many more. Rob is a CompTia Certified Technical Trainer +, Apple Certified Trainer, and Adobe Certified Instructor. He holds numerous other IT certifications.

Cameron L. Fadjo

Cameron L. Fadjo is an instructor of iPhone/Objective-C 2.0 and Java development at Columbia University's Teachers College. A former Business Specialist with Apple and product specialist for Native Instruments, GmBH, Mr. Fadjo has over seven years of experience as a corporate trainer and leader. He holds a certification as a teacher in the state of New Hampshire and as a certified professional in Logic Pro 8. In addition, he holds a Bachelor of Music (B.M) in Music Synthesis from Berklee College of Music and an M.A. (Instructional Technology and Media) and Ed.M. (Cognitive Studies in Education) both from Teachers College, Columbia University. While he is pursuing his PhD from Columbia University, Mr. Fadjo is the lead researcher on a 4-year project using innovative and experimental ways to teach computer science and is concurrently the Director of the iPhone Development Group at Teachers College.

Jessica Thornhille-Skeete

Jessica Thornhille-Skeete is a recent Masters graduate from Columbia University in the area of Instructional Technology and Media, with a focus on mobile learning management system design. Ms. Skeete teaches iOS app development across the US, and enjoys introducing students of varying programming backgrounds to the wonderful world that is app development. Working in technical support for a top telecommunications company enriched Ms. Skeete's understanding of mobile devices and their capabilities ensuring her classroom a technilogically advanced environment. Ms. Skeete caters the hands-on-lab courseware to the level and interest of her students so they learn information relevant to their industry. Additionly, she is working on multiple apps, two of which will be available in the app store by September 2012.

Shelley Weiner

President of Business Rules, Inc., was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, and graduated from Colby College and Columbia University. She started her career in graphic arts production management and spent eight years in commercial printing sales before turning her hand to technology. Shelley moved to rural Columbia County, NY in 2002, and opened her own Apple authorized training center in Rhinecliff, NY in 2006. Jazzing jaded technicians and opening PC minds to the joys of Apple hardware and software are two of her biggest highs, along with cooking with, and for, friends, listening to everything from fado to opera to samba, and reading non-fiction of all types.

 

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