Course Overview
After Effects Essentials is designed to allow those new to video animation techniques or who are self-taught, to get the most from this immensely powerful software. Learn to create rich compositions with video, Photoshop, Illustrator and other files. Create advanced text effects, video blending, keying effects and track mattes. Learn basic through advanced animation techniques that make After Effects an unrivaled motion graphics toolset. This course introduces you to the newest techniques and tools used in Adobe After Effects CC.
In Premiere Pro, you’ll get a thorough overview of the interface, tools, features, and production flow for Premiere Pro CC. The course is an ideal combination of instructor-led demonstration and hands-on practice to introduce you to Adobe Premiere Pro software, a revolutionary 64-bit nonlinear video-editing application. You will learn powerful real-time video and audio editing tools that give you precise control over virtually every aspect of your production.
Who Should Attend?
Animators, Videographer, Video visual effects
Pre-requisite
AFTER EFFECTS CC
- No Prior Knowledge of After Effects, Visual Effects or Motion Graphics Required
- A working copy of After Effects CC 2020 or CC 2019
- All project files are available in After Effects CC 2020, CC 2019 and CC 2018
- Backward compatibility up to After Effects CC 2013 for all projects
PREMIERE PRO CC
- Practical working knowledge of Mac OS X or Windows
- Basic knowledge of editing terminology is highly recommended
Course Outlines
Adobe After Effects CC
- What is a project file and what is in it?
- Tools and Panels
- Transform properties of layers
- Keyframing
- In depth keyframe manipulation & interpolation
- Graph Editor
- Motion Sketch/Smoother
- Auto-Orient/Motion Blur
- Roving Keyframes
- Anchor Point/Pan Behind Tool
- Trim-move-stack-split
- Slip Tool
- Sequence Layers
- Solo Switches
- Looping Footage
- Image Sequences
- Frame Rate vs. Time Stretch
- Blending Modes
- Effects & Solids with Blending Modes
- Effects & Presets Panel
- Masks
- Shape
- Feather
- Expansion
- Masking with the Pen Tool
- Simple Rules of Titling
- Basic Text
- How After Effects put it all together
- Render Queue
- Export As/Same Frame As/Pre-render
Adobe Premiere CC
- Nonlinear editing in Adobe Premiere Pro
- Expanding the workflow
- Touring the Adobe Premiere Pro interface
- Setting up a project
- Setting up a sequence
- Importing assets
- Working with the Media Browser
- Importing images
- The media cache
- Capturing the videotape
- The Project panel
- Working with bins
- Organizing media with content analysis
- Monitoring footage
- Modifying clips
- Using the Source Monitor
- Navigating the Timeline
- Essential editing commands
- Program Monitor controls
- Controlling resolution
- Using markers
- Using Sync Lock and Track Lock
- Finding gaps in the Timeline
- Moving clips
- Extracting and deleting segments
- What are transitions?
- Edit points and handles
- Adding video transitions
- Using A/B mode to fine-tune a transition
- Adding audio transitions
- Four-point editing
- Retiming clips
- Replacing clips and footage
- Nesting sequences
- Regular trimming
- Advanced trimming
- Trimming in the Program Monitor panel
- Adjusting the Motion effect
- Changing clip position, size, and rotation
- Working with keyframe interpolation
- Using other motion-related effects
- The multi-camera process
- Creating a multi-camera sequence
- Switching multiple cameras
- Finalizing multi-camera editing
- Additional multi-camera editing tips
- Setting up the interface to work with audio
- Examining audio characteristics
- Adjusting audio volume
- Adjusting audio gain
- Normalizing audio
- Creating a split edit
- Adjusting audio levels in a sequence
- Working with the Audio Mixer
- Sweetening sound with audio effects
- Adjusting EQ
- Applying effects in the Audio Mixer
- Cleaning up noisy audio
- Working with effects
- Keyframing effects
- Effects presets
- Frequently used effects
- Color-oriented workflow
- An overview of color-oriented effects
- Fixing exposure problems
- Fixing color balance
- Specials color effects
- Creating a look
- What is an alpha channel?
- Using compositing in your projects
- Working with the Opacity effect
- Working with alpha-channel transparencies
- Color keying a greenscreen shot
- Using mattes
- An overview of the Titler window
- Video typography essentials
- Creating titles
- Stylizing text
- Working with shapes and logos
- Making text roll and crawl
- The File menu
- Using the Project Manager
- Final project management steps
- Importing projects or sequences
- Managing collaboration
- Managing your hard drives
- Overview of export options
- Exporting single frames
- Exporting a master copy
- Working with Adobe Media Encoder
- Exchanging with other editing applications
- Recording to tape