After Effects CS3 Introduction

Prerequisites
Experience of a graphics program (e.g. Photoshop) would be an advantage.
Overview
Upon completion of the Introduction course to After Effects CS3, Delegates will have a good working knowledge of and be able to use
After Effects in the workplace.

Course Content
Projects

Creating and saving Projects
Time Display
Importing Files
Photoshop and Illustrator Files
Alpha Channels
Adobe Bridge
Interlaced Footage
Pixel Aspect Ratio (PAR)

Managing Footage

The Project Panel
Organising the Project Panel
Proxies and Placeholders
Viewing Footage
The Footage Panel
Cueing Motion Footage
Safe Zones
Viewing Transparency

Compositions

Brain Storm ( creative Compositions)
Creating Compositions
Composition Settings
Presets
Advanced Composition Settings
Background Colour
Composition and Timeline Panels
Setting The Time
Adding Footage
Insert and Overlay Commands
Solid Layers
Adjustment Layers
Nesting Compositions
Photoshop CS3 Integration

Keyframe Interpolation

Interpolation Types
Spatial Interpolation
Motion Paths
Graph Editor (overview)
Value and Speed Graphs
Temporal Interpolation Types
Keyframe Assistants
Roving Keyframes

Masks

Viewing Masks
Mask Paths
Targeting Masks
Creation Methods
Closed and Open Masks
Mask Shapes
Rotobezier Masks
Converting Masks
Masks from Photoshop and Illustrator
Mask Modes
Keying With Keylight

Effects Fundamentals

Effect Categories
Preset Panel
Applying Effects
Effect Property Controls
Effect Control Panel
Effects to an Adjustment Layer
Compound Effects
Animating Effects
Keying Options

Creating and Animating Text

Creating Type
Editing Type
Formatting Characters
Blending Characters
Text Paths
Animating Text
Text Animation Pressed
Per Character 3D Text Animation
Animator Groups
Range Selector
Multiple Selectors and Selector Modes
Wiggly Selector Options Layer Basics

Selecting Layers
Stacking Order
Naming
Layer Commands
Continuously Rasterizing a Layer
Quality Settings

Layer Editing

Layer Panels
The Time Graph
Trimming Layers
Numerical Editing Controls
Layers Speed
Slip Edit
Sequencing and Overlapping Layers
Splitting Layers
Markers

Properties and Keyframes

Layer Property Types
Global and animated Properties
Spatial Controls
Audio Waveform
Audio Panel
Animating Layer Properties
Animation Presets

Playback, Previews and RAM

Rendering and RAM
Region of Interest
Time Controls
Live Update
Fast Preview Option
Open GL
The Work Area
Previewing Audio
Rendering RAM Previews
Purging The RAM Cache





Painting on a Layer

Paint and Brush Tip Panels
Stroke Options
Brush Dynamics
Animating Strokes
Clone Stamp Tool

Advanced Layer Techniques

Shape Layers (Vector Objects)
Frame Blending
Motion Blur
Time Remapping
Blending Modes
Track Mattes
The Puppet Tool

Complex Projects

Nesting
Flowchart
Precomposing
Collapsing Transformations
Pre-rendering
Using Null Objects

3D Layers

Using 3D
Camera Views
Comp Panel Layouts
Axis Modes
3D Position
3D material Options
Lights
Previewing 3D
3D Layer Order
Photoshop Vanishing Point in After Effects

Output

The Render Queue
Making a Movie
Multiple Output Modes
Templates
Single Frames
Exporting to swf and flv
Adobe Media Encoder
Flash Integration
Setting Flash Control Points
Clip Notes (Client interaction Function)
Video for Mobile phones