Adobe After Effects Training

Our Adobe After Effects CS3 course is for Design and corporate communications professionals who need an essential understanding of motion graphics and compositing.

This is a level 1 course. No previous experience with the program is required. All students should be familiar with using a mouse,
file management and general operations of a Macintosh or Windows operating system.

Adobe After Effects CS3 Training Course Outline

Unit 1: Real-World Usage of After Effects

* What is After Effects?
* What kind of media can it be used to create?
* What kind of media can be imported into After Effects?
* The advantages of Adobe product integration
* A typical After Effects workflow sequence

Unit 2: After Effects Project Management

* What kind of media output is required?
* What is the playback format for final output?
* What restrictions are there for the
* projects physical window frame size?
* What restrictions are there for the
* projects frame rate?
* What restrictions are there for graphical screen-based assets?

Unit 3: Setting Up an After Effects Project

* RAM and real-time rendering
* Setting Preferences
* Creating a Composition
* Understanding and navigating the After Effects workspace
* Working with After Effects Tools

Unit 4: Importing and Manipulating GRAPHICS

* Importing Photoshop layered files
* Importing Illustrator layered files
* Working with layers and properties
* Animating layer properties
* Round-trip Editing:Editing graphics using an external editor from within After Effects

Unit 5: Importing and Manipulating VIDEO CLIPS

* Importing QuickTime movies
* Video compression issues
* Time-base issues
* Frame rate issues
* Laying video clips into the Time Layout Window
* Changing video clip properties
* Animating video clips
* Superimposing video clips

Unit 6: Importing and Manipulating SOUND

* Importing Sound
* Audio compression issues
* Manipulating sound cues in the Time Layout Window
* Synching sound to visual events
* Sound filters
* Sound processing effects

Unit 7: Creating TEXT and TITLES

* Importing text as bitmap graphics
* Creating text within After Effects
* Editing imported text within After Effects

Unit 8:Working with EFFECTS AND TRANSITIONS

* Working with visual effects
* Working with visual effect transitions

Unit 9: Working with MASKS

* Transparency in the After Effects environment
* Understanding alpha channels, masks, mattes, and keying
* Creating masks in After Effects

Unit 10: Importing and Manipulating PREMIERE

* Understanding Adobe Premiere
* Importing Premiere projects into After Effects
* Editing Premiere files using Premiere as an
external editor from within After Effects
* Editing After Effects files using After Effects as an
external editor from within Premiere

Unit 11: Final Project File RENDERING

* Testing for final export
* Final file rendering for a variety of output formats
* Choosing rendering options

We offer After Effects CS3 Training classes in Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Diego, San Francisco, Austin, Boston, Las Vegas, Pennsylvania, Chicago, and many other cities throughout the country via our partner network. We also offer one-on-one or onsite After Effects training nationwide.