Adobe After Effects CS4 Introduction

Projects
Creating & saving Projects
Importing files
Photoshop & Illustrator Files


Managing footage
The Project Panel
The footage Panel


Compositions
Creating Compositions
Composition & Timeline Panels
Solid Layers
Adjustments Layers
Nesting Compositions


Using Layers
Stacking Order
Slip Edit
Sequencing & Overlapping


Properties & Keyframes
Audio Panel
Animation Presents
Playback, Previews & RAM
Rendering & RAM
Fast Preview Option
Previewing Audio


Graphs Editor (overview)
Value & Speed Graphs
Temporal Interpolation Types
Keyframe Assistants


Masks
Mask Paths
Mask Modes


Effects
Effect Categories
Present Panel
Applying Effects
Effect Property Controls
Animating Effects


Creating and Animating Text
Text Animation Present
Per Character 3D Text Animation


Advanced Composing
Pre-composing
Motion Blur
Time Remapping
Blending Modes


3D Layers
Using 3D
Camera Views


Output
The Render Queue
Making a Movie
Multiple Output Modes
Single Frames
Exporting to swf & flv

 

 

 

Course Overview:

This two day course will provide you with the tools to work with motion graphic techniques for post production using Adobe After Effects.

 

Course Duration:

2 Days

 

Course Pre-requisites:

Before attending this course you should be able to navigate around a computer.

 

At the end of this course
you will be able to:
  • Become familiar with Projects within the After Effects enviornment.
  • Work with footage.
  • Create and modify compositions.
  • Work with layers and keyframes.
  • Playback, Previews & RAM.
  • Outputting.

Price Band:

 Specialised