Adobe After Effects

Overview
After Effects CC software lets you deliver cinematic visual effects and motion graphics faster than ever before with new Global Performance Cache. Extend your creativity with built-in text and shape extrusion, new mask feathering options. Get into motion graphics – come learn what After Effects CC can do!

Course Objectives

• » Fundamentals of Motion Graphics
• » Getting to Know the Workflow
• » Creating a Basic Animation Using Effects and Presets
• » Animating Text
• » Working with Shape Layers
• » Animating Multimedia Presentation
• » Working with Masks
• » Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools
• » Other Effects
• » Rendering and Outputting

Course Outline

1. Fundamentals of Motion Graphics
   1. RGB Color Model
   2. Frame size
   3. Resolution
   4. Pixel aspect ratio
   5. Alpha channels
   6. Frame rate
   7. Time code
   8. Interpreting footage
2. Getting to Know the Workflow
   • . About the After Effects work area

1. Creating a project and importing footage
2. Creating a composition and arranging layers
3. About layers
4. Adding effects and modifying layer properties
5. Animating the composition
6. About the Tools panel
7. About timecode and duration
8. About the Timeline panel
9. Precomposing
10. Previewing your work
11. Optimizing performance in After Effects
12. Rendering and exporting your composition
13. Customizing workspaces
14. Controlling the brightness of the user interface
15. Finding resources for using After Effects

3. Creating a Basic Animation Using Effects and Presets
   • . Importing footage using Adobe Bridge

1. Creating a new composition
2. Importing video clips
3. Importing a sequence of stills -Importing multilayered photoshop and illustrator files
4. Pan Behind tool for layers
5. Creating a new composition
6. Applying effects to a layer
7. Applying and controlling effects
8. Applying an animation preset
9. Changing parameters globally
10. Creating keyframes
11. Temporal and spatial Interpolation
12. Roving in time for spatial properties
13. Previewing the effects
14. Adding transparency
15. Rendering the composition

4. Animating Text
   • . About text layers

1. Installing a font using Typekit
2. Creating and formatting point text
3. Creating and formatting paragraph text
4. Using a text animation preset
5. Animating with scale keyframes
6. Animating imported Photoshop text
7. Animating type tracking
8. Animating text opacity
9. Using a text animator group
10. About text animator groups
11. Animating a layer’s position
12. Animating a range
13. Adding motion blur

5. Working with Shape Layers
   • . Adding a shape layer

1. Creating custom shapes
2. Creating stars
3. Default properties of shape layers
4. Add properties
5. Creating Groups
6. Stack your shapes & properties

6. Animating Multimedia Presentation
   • . Using Creative Cloud Libraries in After Effects

1. Adjusting anchor points
2. Parenting layers
3. Precomposing layers
4. Keyframing a motion path
5. Animating additional elements
6. Applying an effect
7. About solid-color layers
8. Animating precomposed layers
9. Animating the background
10. Adding an audio track
11. Supported audio file formats

7. Working with Masks
   • . About masks

1. Creating a mask with the Pen tool
2. Editing a mask
3. About mask modes
4. Creating a Bezier mask
5. Feathering the edges of a mask
6. Replacing the content of the mask
7. Using masks from Illustrator and Photoshop
8. Masks for spatial keyframes
9. Pan Behind tool for masks
10. Zooming and panning by touch
11. Adding a reflection
12. Creating a vignette
13. Using the Rectangle and Ellipse tools
14. Adjusting the timing
15. Tips for creating masks
16. Trimming the work area

8. Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools
   • . About the Puppet tools

1. Adding Deform pins
2. Defining areas of overlap
3. Stiffening an area
4. Animating pin positions
5. Squash and stretch
6. Recording animation
7. Act it out with Adobe Character Animator

9. Other Effects
   • . Time remapping

1. Motion sketch
2. The smoother
3. The wiggler
4. Auto orient
5. Splitting a layer
6. Adjustment layers
7. Time remapping

10. Rendering and Outputting
    • . Creating templates for the Render Queue

1. About compression
2. Exporting using the Render Queue
3. Preparing movies for mobile devices
4. Rendering movies with Adobe Media Encoder
5. Preparing a movie for broadcast output