Adobe After Effects

Adobe After Effects CS3

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Course Outline | Adobe After Effects —Level 1

Getting to Know the Workflow

  • Creating a project and importing footage
  • Creating a composition and arranging layers
  • Adding effects and modifying layer properties
  • Animating the composition
  • Previewing your work
  • Exporting your composition
  • Customizing the workspace
  • Controlling the brightness of the user interface
  • Using After Effects Help
  • Using Adobe online services
  • Fields, Channels, Alpha Channels and PAR

Creating a Basic Animation Using Effects and Presets

  • Setting up the project
  • Importing footage using Adobe Bridge
  • Creating the composition
  • Working with imported Illustrator or Photoshop layers
  • Applying effects to a layer
  • Applying an animation preset
  • Previewing the effects
  • Adding transparency
  • Rendering the composition
  • Brainstormer

Keyframing

  • Spatial vs Temporal Keyframes
  • Linear, Auto Bezier, Bezier and Continuous Bezier Keyframes
  • Motion Sketch, Smoother and Wiggler
  • Auto Orient

Animating Text

  • About text layers
  • Creating and formatting point text
  • Using a text animation preset
  • Animating with scale keyframes
  • Animating using parenting
  • Animating imported Photoshop text
  • Animating text using a path preset
  • Animating type tracking
  • Animating the letters opacity
  • Using a text animator group
  • Cleaning up the path animation
  • Adding motion blur

Shape Layers

  • Adding a shape layer
  • Creating custom shapes
  • Creating stars
  • Incorporating video and audio layers
  • Adding a title bar
  • Using Brainstorm to experiment

Animating a Multimedia Presentation

  • Animating the scenery using parenting
  • Adjusting an anchor point
  • Masking video using vector shapes
  • Keyframing a motion path
  • Animating additional elements
  • Applying an effect
  • Adding an audio track
  • Zooming in for a final close-up
  • Sending the project to review

Templates as Not Templates

  • Switching out the source file
  • Switching out the layer
  • Changing the keyframes

Working with 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 Photoshop or Illustrator to create a mask

Corporate Loop (everything is a template)

  • Nested comps
  • Replacing layer content
  • Adjustment Layers
  • Adding Mask Noise
  • Adding type
  • Combining compositions to create a loop

All About Transfer Controls

  • Track Mattes
  • Stencil/Silhouettes
  • Preserve Transparency
  • Blend Modes

Parenting vs Basic Expressions

  • Using the Pickwhip
  • Creating an Expression
  • Parenting
  • Adding animation to the music beat with an Expression

Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools

  • About the Puppet tools
  • Adding deform pins
  • Defining areas of overlap
  • Stiffening an area
  • Animating pin positions
  • Recording animation

Keying

  • Changing the background color
  • Adding the foreground subject
  • Creating a garbage mask
  • Applying the Color Difference Key effect
  • Choking the matte
  • Removing spill
  • Adjusting contrast
  • Adding the background animation
  • Adding the title
  • Adding the animated logo
  • Copying effects across two layers

Rendering and Outputting

  • Creating templates for the rendering process
  • Creating templates for output modules
  • Rendering to different output media

Course Outline | Adobe After Effects — Level 2

Compositing in After Effects

  • Workspaces and Panels
  • Make use of the interface
  • Project, footage, and composition settings
  • Previews and viewers
  • Effects & presets
  • Output: the Render Queue

The Timeline

  • Organization
  • Animation methods
  • Keyframes and the Graph Editor
  • Uber-duper
  • Spatial offsets
  • Motion blur
  • Manipulate time
  • In conclusion

Selections: The Key to Compositing

  • Many ways to create selections
  • Compositing science and nature
  • Alpha channels and premultiplication
  • Masks
  • Combining multiple masks
  • Masks in motion
  • Blening modes: compositing beyond selections
  • Track mattes

Optimize the Pipeline

  • Multiple compositions, multiple projects
  • Precomping and composition nesting
  • Adjustment and guide layers
  • Render pipeline
  • Project optimization
  • Create a shot

Effects Compositing Essentials

Color Correction

  • Optimized levels
  • Color matching
  • Beyond the basics

Color Keying

  • Good habits and best practices
  • Linear keyers and hi-con mattes
  • Blue and green screen keys
  • Get the best out of keylight
  • Typical keying challenges

Rotoscoping and Paint

  • Articulated mattes
  • Overcome mask limitations
  • Morph
  • Puppet
  • Paint and cloning

Effective Motion Tracking

  • The essentials
  • 2.5D tracking
  • Extend a track
  • Track for rotoscoping
  • 3D tracks

The Camera and Optics

  • Cameras: virtual and real
  • Storytelling and the camera
  • Camera blur
  • The role of grain
  • Film and video looks

Expression

  • Values
  • Links and offsets
  • Mars Productions
  • Patterns
  • Rules

32 Bit HDR Compositing and Color Management

  • CS3 color management: Why bother?
  • Film and dynamic range
  • Linear floating-point HDR

Creative Explorations

Light

  • Source and direction
  • Color looks
  • Source, reflection, and shadow
  • Multipass 3D compositing

Climate and Environment

  • Particular matter
  • Sky replacement
  • Fog, smoke, and mist
  • Billowing smoke
  • Wind
  • Precipitation

Pyrotechnics: Heat, Fire, Explosions

  • Firearms
  • Energy effects
  • Heat distortion
  • Fire
  • Explosions
  • In a blaze of glory

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Adobe After Effect CS5: Level 1 and Level 2
Price
$1500
Length
5 days
Date
09/27/10 - 10/01/10
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Date
12/06/10 - 12/10/10
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Course Details

AE CS5: Level 1              $995

Date
09/27/10 - 09/29/10
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Date
12/06/10 - 12/09/10
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AE CS5: Level 2              $695

Date
09/30/10 -10/01/10
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12/09/10 - 12/10/10
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What's Included?

Included In The Cost Of The Course: Course Book, Breakfast And Lunch!

Instructor

Rich Baim

An Adobe Certified Instructor for Adobe Premiere Pro with over twenty years of video editing experience. Rich has a Master of Science degree in Instructional Media and was one of the beta testers for Premiere Pro 1.5. He currently works in the eLearning department at a technology center and specializes in streaming media for health education. Rich emphasizes real-world problem solving and provides "hands-on" experiences for students.

Margaret A. Gaeddert

Margaret "Margee" Gaeddert, is a certified professional designer and owner of G Art & Design in Oklahoma City. A 30 year career in design as an art director, graphic designer, illustrator, and web designer has awarded her regional, national and international awards. She has worked with Fortune 500 and 1000 corporations such as AOL, Avon, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co, Sony Music, CNBC.com and Gucci. Local corporations include American Fidelity, KOCO Television, Metropolitan Library Association and Sperry Van Ness. She teaches design at the University of Central Oklahoma. Gaeddert enjoys serving on the board of the Oklahoma Watercolor Association, and two design advisory boards supporting education in Oklahoma. She holds a bachelor's of fine arts degree and is an accomplished award winning fine artist in watercolor media, calligraphy and caricature art.

Jason Gaines

Mr. Gaines is a certified professional in both Logic Pro 8 and Soundtrack 2. He is currently in demand as an instructor of both applications. Current projects include independent film work and collaboration on the television series, LA Ink. Jason Gaines is a New York City based trumpeter, composer and arranger. He has performed and recorded with some of the most influential performers in the jazz idiom including Arturo Sandoval, Roy Hargrove, Joshua Redman, Freddie Hubbard, Jackie McLean, Gerald Wilson and others. He holds degrees from Manhattan School of Music, New York University and Teachers College, Columbia University.

Foster Johnson

Foster Johnson is the Owner and Lead Creative for Foster Johnson Studios. He has 10 years of professional creative development and leadership experience in interactive, print and advertising, executing creative direction, art direction and team strategy. An architect of numerous web based commerce and database connectivity solutions, as well as e-commerce, telecoms, entertainment, advertising, publishing, photography and video for broadband. Johnson is an Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI) with expert level application skills in Adobe Creative Suite 3, including: Flash using ActionScript 3.0, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects Pro, InDesign, Acrobat Pro, Captivate 3.0, LiveCycle ES as well as QuarkXPress and web application development using advanced CSS, SQL, AJAX, XML, RSS, Google AdSense and AdWords.

Rick Allen Lippert

Rick Allen Lippert is president of Lippert Media in Oklahoma City with 30 years experience on both sides of the camera. Specializing in industrial production, he has won numerous awards for his writing, producing, and directing for clients such as the Oklahoma Arts Institute, Oklahoma City University, the City of Oklahoma City, the University of Central Oklahoma, the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration.His commercial clients include CompSource Oklahoma and Dane Design. Rick has been using Final Cut Pro since version 1.25. As an adjunct instructor, he teaches video production at Oklahoma City Community College and media writing at the University of Oklahoma.

Kiri Roberts

Kiri Christopher Roberts is the creative director of One Media USA, a media production house located in Albany, NY. Born in Zimbabwe, Kiri migrated to the UK where he received a Masters in Audio Production from the University of Westminster in London. With a diverse international experience he has worked on music production, TV commercials, documentary films, music videos and currently ‘Frozen River’ the movie. Kiri is also a contributing writer for the Edit-Well magazine whose editor is Larry Jordan of LA. Kiri balances his time between his business and as a trainer for Apple Pro Apps. He is an Apple Certified end user and trainer for Motion 3, FCP6, STP2 & Logic 8.

Adam Karneboge

Adam Karneboge, an avid road warrior and trainer for Metro Technology Centers, is a partner, and Director of Services & Technology, for MacSpecialist, a full-service Apple shop with locations in Villa Park and Chicago, IL. Adam is an Apple Certified Macintosh Technician, Apple Certified Technical Coordinator and Apple Certified System Administrator, teaching all of Apple's IT courses. including Xsan. Over the past five years, Adam has taught more than 160 classes for Apple, MacSpecialist, AATC's, and various companies and school districts, to outstanding reviews. He is also an avid fan who wholeheartedly stands with the Chicago Cubs. He wants you to know that he has a brick in the pavement outside Wrigley Field reading, "The Karneboge's, If It Takes Forever.”

Rob Daniels

Rob Daniels is President and Owner of Tech Wyze, Inc., in Kansas City, a computer consulting and training company. Rob began his career in professional digital photography in the early 1990s and found himself supporting his employer's computer imaging systems. After making a transition into the IT world, he became network manager of a publishing company and spent four years training graphics professionals across North America. Later, Rob established his own IT company to support such clients as Hallmark Cards, Kansas City Power & Light, and many more. Rob is a CompTia Certified Technical Trainer +, Apple Certified Trainer, and Adobe Certified Instructor. He holds numerous other IT certifications.

Cameron L. Fadjo

Cameron L. Fadjo is an instructor of iPhone/Objective-C 2.0 and Java development at Columbia University's Teachers College. A former Business Specialist with Apple and product specialist for Native Instruments, GmBH, Mr. Fadjo has over seven years of experience as a corporate trainer and leader. He holds a certification as a teacher in the state of New Hampshire and as a certified professional in Logic Pro 8. In addition, he holds a Bachelor of Music (B.M) in Music Synthesis from Berklee College of Music and an M.A. (Instructional Technology and Media) and Ed.M. (Cognitive Studies in Education) both from Teachers College, Columbia University. While he is pursuing his PhD from Columbia University, Mr. Fadjo is the lead researcher on a 4-year project using innovative and experimental ways to teach computer science and is concurrently the Director of the iPhone Development Group at Teachers College.

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