z - After Effects Fundamentals

Do you take a lot of home videos? Film yourself surfing, biking, and snowboarding with a camera? This class will teach you the skills to be able to edit these videos and add amazing effects. If you are video or graphic pro, this class is essential to learn video & motion editing as well as compositing. This class is taught by an Adobe Certified Instructor.

After taking this class you will know:

• What is the best use of After Effects? What type of media can it create or import?
• How to setup an After Effects Project including preferences, layers, adding effects and time controls.
• Creating text and adding transparency
• Animating and adding motion blur
• Adding cartoon effects
• Working with masks and importing them from Photoshop
• Manipulating 2D text and objects in 3D space
• Shading and Shadowing layers
• Learning video and audio compression
• Rendering and exporting to DVD-V, YouTube, Mobile Devices
• Replacing a background and adjusting the color balance

• Integrating Premiere Pro projects

Adobe After Effects is a powerful video editing, and visual effects application that allows you to create professional, visually engaging work. Explore motion graphics, tracking, keying, and compositing with After Effects, as you learn the skill of post-production video editing.

Learn to harness the power of Adobe After Effects to take your projects to the next level. Learn from the ground up through hands-on exercises that will get up to speed with the powerful post-production capabilites of After Effects.

Getting comfortable with the Workflow

• Create a project and import footage

• Create a composition with layers

• Add effects and modify an individual layer's properties

• Preview your work

• Optimize work speed and system performance in After Effects

Creating Animations Using Effects and Presets

• Use Adobe Bridge to import footage

• Create a new composition

• Work with layers imported from Illustrator

• Apply effects to individual or multiple layers

• Apply presets to make animations easier

• Preview the effects you've just added

• Work with transparency

Animating Text

• Learn about text layers

• Create and format point text

• Use scale keyframes

• Use parenting in animations

• Adjust text opacity during animations

• Animate a non-text layer along a motion path

• Add motion blur to your composition

Working with Shape Layers

• Add in a shape layer

• Create your own custom shapes

• Incorporate video and audio layers

• Add a title bar

Animate a Multimedia Presentation

• Use parenting to animate scenery

• Adjust anchor points

• Mask a video using vector shapes

• Animate extra elements

• Apply effects to layers

• Create a fully animated slide show

• Add in audio

Animating Layers

• Simulate lighting changes

• Create movement in the scenery with animations

• Create a track matte

• Work with shadows

• Retime a composition

Working with Masks

• About Masks

• Creating a mask with the pen tool

• Editing a mask

• Feathering the edges of a mask

• Replacing the content of the mask

• Adding a reflection

• Creating a vignette

• Adjusting the color

Using the Puppet Tools

• Add Deform pins

• Define overlaps

• Animate pin positions

• Record your animations

Color Correction in After Effects

• Fine tune the color balance

• Change the background

• Remove elements

• Use the Photo Filter effect to warm colors

Prerequisites:

• Basic Mac or Windows skills: copying/pasting, right-clicking (contextual menus), finding files, switching between programs, exploring windows