Adobe After Effects CS4 / CS5 Professional
Adobe After Effects is recognised as the essential tool for motion graphics and visual effects. It offers a fast, flexible, affordable 2D & 3D compositing and animation toolset to help you develop your creative ideas with speed and control, and deliver high-quality results for film, video, multimedia, or the Web.
This course will introduce you to After Effects so that you will develop a full understanding of high-resolution multilayer compositing, animation and visual effects.
The footage you create in After Effects will be suitable for digital output to film, videotape, CD-ROM and the Web. This course will appeal to those who are interested in developing their skills in the field of multimedia, video and presentation graphics.
PREREQUISITES
Experience of a graphics program (e.g. Photoshop) would be an advantage.
The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.
COURSE CONTENT
Introduction
- Setting preferences
- Setting up a project and planning ahead
- Overview of all the windows
- Using the tools in the tool palette
- Working with vector versus bitmap images
Creating Compositions
- Importing and using images from Photoshop (including layers and Alpha channels)
- Importing and interpreting video clips
- Importing external files as compositions
- Understanding keyframes
- Mixing footage from different sources
- Pre-composing; Nesting compositions to create complex animations.
Layers & Masks
- Layer properties
- Working with layers in time and space
- Adjustment layers
- Animating layer properties over time
- Understanding layer masking
- Multiple masks and their parameters
- Mask animations
- Combined masks
- Unlimited masks
- Masks from text
- Animating Masks - Rotoscoping
- Layer Transfer Modes and Track Mattes
- 3D compositing - manipulation layers in 3D space, animating lights & cameras
- Parenting - animating layers hierarchically & synchronizing their motion
- Vector paint tools - painting non-destructively on layers overtime
- Expressions - creating live relationships between layer properties.
Animation Presets
- Creating and animating text
- Animation on Bezier motion paths
- Keying and Matte Tools
- Colour Correction.
Keying and Matte Tools
Colour Correction
Playback
- The RAM playback engine and its parameters
- Previewing your work
- Using markers
- Fine-tuning animations by manually and numerically altering keyframe parameters
- Understanding Rendering Order - how After Effects thinks
- Understanding and applying Filters and Effects
- Using slow motion and variable speed during a clip
- Controlling speed, acceleration and deceleration along a motion path.
Graph Editor
- Working with Sound
- 32-bit audio support
- Audio to keyframe conversions
- Audio effects.
Output
- Safe zones, frame rates and compression
- Export and output options
- Pixel Aspect Ratio settings
- Rendering the final output (for output to video, for CD playback and for web playback)
- Working with DV/Mini DV
- Use of Rendering templates and efficient use of RAM
- Organising large projects
- Disk Caching
- Output to Macromedia Flash (SWF) - creating animations for Web sites
- Firewire Video Output
- 32-bit High Dynamic Range (HDR) and 16-bit colour support
- Enhanced masking - drawing masks in the Comp window; adding Motion Blur to masks
- Enhanced productivity features - improved interactivity; enhanced RAM Previews.
File Format Support
- Industry standard formats
- Integration
- Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere, Adobe Bridge, Encore
Keyboard shortcuts
Advantages of learning Adobe After Effects CS4/CS5 with NCL Training
- Our Adobe After Effects trainers are experienced, and professionals with excellent knowledge of all aspects of print workflows from creating artwork to guaranteeing successful output.
- It's solutions based: before you come to NCLTraining we agree the course content with you based on your needs.
- We take the time to work specifically on any files you bring along to the course, ensuring that you see benefits to your workflow immediately.
- NCL training focusses on real tasks that reflect how the software is used in professional situations.
- On-site and off-site training is available for the whole Sri Lanka.
- Free email support service for 3 months after course.
- We get consistently good feedback from our clients.
- It's solutions based: before you come to NCLTraining we agree the course content with you based on your needs.
- We take the time to work specifically on any files you bring along to the course, ensuring that you see benefits to your workflow immediately.
- NCL training focusses on real tasks that reflect how the software is used in professional situations.
- On-site and off-site training is available for the whole Sri Lanka.
- Free email support service for 3 months after course.
- We get consistently good feedback from our clients.
Domestic Tuition Information
Mode of Study Full - time
Starting Dates N/A
Awarding Body Nottingham College of London
Award Certificate in Adobe Affter Effects CS4/CS5
Duration 02 Months
Registration Fee Rs. 1000/=
(Group Fee) - (Individual Fee)
Rs. 4,880/= - Rs. 6,920/=
International Tuition Information
Duration 02 Months
Registration fee US$ 19/=
(Group fee) - (Individual fee)
US$ 50/= - US$ 90/= |
