Duration
2 days
Course Outline
Course Introduction
- Understanding the difference between CS & CC applications
- Tips on note taking & getting best out of the coursebook
Introduction to a video application’s UI
- Understanding workspaces
- Customizing Workspaces
- Useful keyboard shortcuts (part 1)
Getting to know the workflow
- Importing & managing assets
- Working with the footage panel
- Video post-production 101
- Arranging assets in the timeline and composition panels
- Useful keyboard shortcuts (part 2)
- Working with temporal & spatial key frames
- Tips for creating animation
- Working with graph editor
- Animating with layer panel
- Animating with motion sketch, wiggler and smoother
- Working with key frame assistant
Working with layers
- Aligning & distributing layers
- Integrating Photoshop & Illustrator files into the workflow
- Optimizing Adobe After Effects for performance
- Introduction to Effect properties
- Applying effects
Introduction to property control
- Getting started
- Adding a shape layer
- Creating custom shapes
- Creating stars
- Incorporating video and audio layers
- Applying a Cartoon effect
- Adding a title bar
- Using Brainstorm to experiment
- 5. Animating a Multimedia Presentation
- Getting started
- Animating the scenery using parenting
- Adjusting an anchor point
- Masking video using vector shapes
- Keyframing a motion path
- Animating additional elements
- Applying an effect
- Creating an animated slide show
- Adding an audio track
- Zooming in for a final close-up
- 6. Animating Layers
- Getting started
- Simulating lighting changes
- Duplicating an animation using the pick whip
- Animating movement in the scenery
- Adjusting the layers and creating a track matte
- Animating the shadows
- Adding a lens flare effect
- Animating the clock
- Retiming the composition
- 7. Working With Masks
- About masks
- Getting started
- 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
- 8. Distorting Objects With the Puppet Tools
- Getting started
- About the Puppet tools
- Adding Deform pins
- Defining areas of overlap
- Stiffening an area
- Animating pin positions
- Recording animation
- 9. Performing Color Correction
- Getting started
- Adjusting color balance
- Replacing the background
- Removing unwanted elements
- Correcting a range of colors
- Warming colors with the Photo Filter effect
- 10. Building 3D Objects
- Getting started
- Building a 3D object
- Working with a null object
- Working with 3D text
- Creating a backdrop for 3D animation
- Nesting a 3D composition
- Adding a camera
- Completing the scene
- 11. Using 3D Features
- Getting started
- Animating 3D objects
- Adding reflections to 3D objects
- Animating a camera
- Adjusting layer timing
- Using 3D lights
- Adding effects
- Adding motion blur
- Previewing the entire animation
- 12. Working with the 3D Camera Tracker
- About the 3D Camera Tracker effect
- Getting started
- Tracking the footage
- Creating a camera and the initial text
- Creating realistic shadows
- Adding ambient light
- Creating additional text elements
- Locking a layer to a plane with a null object
- Animating the text
- Adjusting the camera’s depth of field
- Rendering the composition
- 13. Advanced Editing Techniques
- Getting started
- Using the Warp Stabilizer
- Using single-point motion tracking
- Using multipoint tracking
- Creating a particle simulation
- Retiming playback using the Timewarp effect
- 14. Rendering and Outputting
- Getting started
- Creating templates for the rendering process
- Creating templates for output modules
- Exporting to different output media
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