After Effects: Beginner [Class in San Francisco] @ American Media Training San Francisco

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What you'll learn in this after effects class:

This course is geared for those just starting out in digital video. This course is essential for those creating video for the web, CD-ROMs, or broadcast. This course will get you started with the basic concepts of After Effects, but gives you a path to continue your mastery of the application. This is a great primer for those seeking their Adobe certification.

Course outline

Lesson 1: Getting to Know the Workflow

Getting started
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 workspaces
Controlling the brightness of the user interface
Finding resources for using After Effects
Checking for updates

Lesson 2: Creating a Basic Animation Using Effects and Presets

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

Lesson 3: Animating Text

Getting started
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
Exporting to Adobe Flash Professional

Lesson 4: Working with Shape Layers

Getting started
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

Lesson 5: Animating a Multimedia Presentation

Getting started
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

Lesson 6: Animating Layers

Getting started
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

Lesson 7: Working With Masks

About masks
Getting started
Creating a mask with the Pen tool
Editing a mask
Replacing the content of the mask
Adding a reflection
Creating a vignette
Adjusting the color

Lesson 8: Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools

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

Lesson 9: Using the Roto Brush Tool

About rotoscopingGetting startedCreating a segmentation boundaryFine-tuning the matteCreating a transition from the full clip to the foregroundCreating the logoAnimating textAdding a background imageAdding audio

Lesson10: Performing Color Correction

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

Lesson 11: Building 3D Objects

Getting started
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

Lesson 12: Using 3D Features

Getting started
Animating 3D objects
Animating a camera
Adjusting layer timing
Using 3D lights
Adding effects
Adding motion blur
Previewing the entire animation

Lesson 13: Advanced Editing Techniques

Getting started
Using motion stabilization
Using single-point motion tracking
Using multipoint tracking
Creating a particle simulation
Retiming playback using the Timewarp effect

Lesson 14: Rendering and Outputting

Getting started
Creating templates for output modules
Exporting to different output media

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American Media Training San Francisco

We began as a software development house developing interactive CD ROM's in 1995. That same year we became a Macromedia Authorized Training Partner and started teaching Director and Authorware. In 1997 when Flash was released we were one of the first training companies to offer ActionScript. Next was...

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Btwn Merchant & Clay Streets
San Francisco, California 94111 FINANCIAL DISTRICT
601 Montgomery St
Btwn Merchant & Clay Streets
San Francisco, California 94111

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