Adobe After Effects Part 2
Adobe After Effects is the industry leader for Video Compositing that allows you to create QuickTime movies for output on the Web, CD ROM, Monitor, or full-motion broadcast quality video for television. You will learn how to mix a number of still images together to create a moving texture. Placing Compositions into other Compositions, using Keyframes & Layers, and Effective Rendering techniques will also be covered in this advanced class.
- About the Adobe Mercury Playback Engine
- Using Dynamic Link to automatically send sequences without rendering first
- Dynamically linking After Effects compositions to Encore projects
- Using Content Aware Fill to remove any image detail
- Working with Alpha Channels
- Working with Photoshop: Export sequences from Photoshop and import directly into After Effects
- About Adobe Repousse how to create 3D artwork in Photoshop
- Working with Illustrator: Importing native .AI files into After Effects retaining all editibility
- Formatting characters and the Character panel
- Creating dynamic animated titles, lower thirds, credit rolls, and typography
- Create photo-realistic or surreal HDR images
- Use the Roto Brush and Refine Matte to isolate moving elements from backgrounds
- Preparing Flash files for broadcast
- Production Bundle Utilities: Exponential Scale, The Wiggler, Smart Mask
- Using Motion Math to create keyframes for layers based on values from a different layer
- How Expressions are similar to Motion Math, but remain attached to a parameter
- Production Bundle Effects
- Compound Effects: Compound Blur, Texturize, and Displacement Map
- Keying and Matting in After Effects
- Using the Remove Color Matting effect to remove color fringes from layers (Formerly the Unmultiply effect)
- Audio Basics and Effects
- Using RAM preview to play video and audio
- Manually scrub video and audio
- Using the Resolution/Down Sample Factor setting
- Animation synchronization to audio tracks with layer markers and expressions
- Write compressed audio formats like AAC and MP3 for Flash and H.264 video with Adobe Media Encoder
- Time Remapping
- Time Manipulating Effects: Posterize Time, Echo, Time Difference, Time Displacement
- Motion Stabilizer and Motion Tracking
- Set up, initiate, and apply motion tracking in the After Effects Tracker panel
- Working with the Auto-keyframe mode
- Motion tracking properties in the Timeline panel and understanding Track Points
- Multi Point Tracking
- Scale Tracking
- Working in 3D space in After Effects and integration with other 3D applications
- Working with cameras and lighting
- Using the Z dimension for precise, independent control over animations
- Z Scale – offsetting the Anchor Point in 3D
- Camera and Orthogonal views
- Layer axes – Local, World, and View Axis modes
- Working with 3d camera tracker and shadow catcher
- 3D Motion Paths and Mixing 2D and 3D layers
- Adding lights illuminate 3D layers and to cast shadows
- Adjusting the Intensity, Cone Angle, Cone Feather, Shadow Darkness and Diffusion
- Video issues: colorspace, title-safe, action-safe
- Field rendering and rendering a composition
- 3:2 Pulldown
- Working with D1/DV NTSC: non-square pixels and widescreen
- Working at film resolution and pre-rendering and Proxies
- Collecting Files
Class Length: 2 Days
Price: $999
This open enrollment class is offered online with a live instructor. All instructors are Adobe Certified.