Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional

Duration: 3 days
Time: 10am - 5pm. Breaks are scheduled throughout the day and lunch is typically scheduled between 12-1pm
Course Materials: Vendor Authorized Courseware provided
Locations: Reston, VA / On-Site
Related Courses:
Cost: $1495
Registration: Click Here to Register

Course Synopsis

Adobe After Effects CS3 is a powerful software tool for visual eff ects and motion graphics. You can use After Effects’ tools to create dynamic designs for commercial video and motion picture production to CD-ROM title development. This course will help you to understand the fundamental concepts and features to master the program. It includes many advanced features, including tips and tricks using the latest version. We also recommend this course for those planning to obtain the Adobe
Certified Expert status.

Who Should Attend

Graphic professionals who need an essential understanding of motion editing and compositing. Experienced users will also benefit from the many tips and tricks and special exercises.

Prerequisites

Because of the amount of material we cover in class, we do require students to be comfortable using a mouse, opening and saving files, and the general operations of computers. While we will make every reasonable effort to help, students with insufficient skills may be required to observe the class lessons or do their best to keep up without slowing down the rest of the class.

What You Will Learn

Basic Animation and Effects
Keyframes and Layers
Working with text
Parenting and Nesting
Transparency
Track and Key
Using Paint and Vector Paint
Expressions and Time
Advanced Motion techniques
New Features of CS3

LESSON PLAN

Basic Animation
Creating folders in the project panel
Creating a new composition
Importing files and folders
Adding layers to the Comp panel
Changing the background color
Animating position
Navigating between keyframes
Dragging footage to the Timeline panel
Aligning and distributing layers
Editing spatial keyframes, motion paths
Auto orientation
Adding effects
Importing layered Photoshop/Illustrator files
Rendering

Advanced Animation
Working with Adobe Bridge
Template Projects
Viewing animated properties
Graph editor overview
Panning and zooming time
Editing graph curves
Easing animations
Editing multiple keyframes
Motion sketch
Using the smoother
Motion Blur
Roving Keyframes
Time-Reverse Keyframes
Anchor Point overview
Pan Behind tool
Motion control moves
Hold keyframes
Time display and timecode

Layer Control
Layers and stacking order
Moving layers in time
Trimming layers Slip editing
Sequence Layers assistant
Looping footage
Image sequences
Changing the frame rate
Time Stretch
Blending Modes
Effects and solids
Effect motion path
Effects & Presets panel
Searching for effects
Animation presets
Behavior presets
Adjustment Layers
Non-square pixels

Creating Transparency
Rectangular Mask tool
Free Transform Points
Masking in the Layer panel
Mask Feather Animating a Mask Shape
Masking with the Pen tool
Effecting a mask area
Mask Opacity
Audio Spectrum effect
Alpha Track Matte
Effects and track mattes
Luma Track Matte
Mask shapes in CS3

Type and Music
Creating basic text
Creating Text Animators
Animating text properties
Creating cascading text
Animating by words
Title safe areas
Animating text Blur and Tracking
Text on a path
Rendering with an alpha channel
Field rendering
Adding sound to a comp
Add comp and layer markers
Customizing presets
Editing Photoshop Text Layers

Parenting and Nesting
Parenting, Nesting, and Expressions
Assigning a parent
Parenting, opacity, and effects
Parenting with Null Objects
Using guides
Nesting comps
Editing precomps
Nesting a common source
Sizing precomps
Locking panels
Precompositing a group of layers
Render order explained
Using precomposing to re-order

Expressions and Time
Using the pick whip to create expressions
Altering expressions
Stabilizing shadows
Looping keyframes
The wiggle expression
Creating a master controller
Converting sound to keyframes
Frame blending
Pixel motion
Stop motion tricks
Preserve Frame Rate
Creating freeze frames
Time Remapping

3D Space and Dimension
Enabling layers for 3D
Moving layers in 3D space
3D rotation and orientation
3D motion paths Camera track and orbit tools
3D lights and Vignettes
Animating lights
Casting shadows
Adding dimension to stills
Editing stills for 3D

Track and Key
Creating track points
Important tracker options
Applying stabilization
Fixing bad tracks
Tracking interlaced footage
Motion tracking Radio Waves effect
Applying tracks to effect points
Perspective corner pin tracking
Bezier Warp effect
Working with high-defi nition footage
Keying using the Keylight effect
Improving keyed composites
Creating garbage mattes

Using Paint and Vector Paint
Basic painting
Erasing strokes
Paint Channels
Paint Blending Modes
Brush duration bar
Animating strokes
Revealing a layer
Creating organic textures
Tablet settings
Cloning
Transforming strokes
Vector Paint overview
Wiggle Control
Onion Skin mode
Playback modes

New Features in After Effects CS3
Using Brainstorm
Brainstorm with keyframes
Puppet Pin tool
Animating Puppet pins
Puppet Overlap tool
Recording Puppet Animation
Creating a Shape layer
Shape Stroke and Fill settings
Editing shapes
Multiple shapes
Even-Odd Fill
Shape Effects
Shape Repeater
Compound Paths
Shape Gradients
Shape Pen Paths
Advanced Strokes
Animating a Stroke

 

 

 

Adobe After Effects CS3 Intermediate

Duration: 3 days
Time: 10am - 5pm. Breaks are scheduled throughout the day and lunch is typically scheduled between 12-1pm
Course Materials: Vendor Authorized Courseware provided
Locations: Reston, VA / On-Site
Related Courses:
Cost: $1495
Registration: Click Here to Register

Course Synopsis

Adobe After Effects is a powerful software tool for visual effects and motion graphics. You can use After Effects’ tools to create dynamic designs for broadcast, web, DVD and film. This course will help you master the concepts and features to the program. It includes many advanced features, including tips and tricks using the latest version. We also recommend this course for those planning to obtain the Adobe Certified expert status.

Who Should Attend

Regardless of your industry, everyone can benefit from this informative and exciting class. Individuals who will be preparing documents for intranet or internet use will find lots of useful tips to get the most out of Acrobat 8. New features will be discussed and hands-on exercises will give the student the ability to see the many features of Acrobat 8 Professional in action.

Prerequisites

Because of the amount of material we cover in class, we do require students to be comfortable using a mouse, opening and saving files, and the general operations of computers. While we will make every reasonable effort to help, students with insufficient skills may be required to observe the class lessons or do their best to keep up without slowing down the rest of the class.

What You Will Learn

Layer and Property Relationships
Parenting, including working with null objects
Expressions
Simple pickwhipping
Wiggle()
Ease()
Converting audio levels to keyframes and using the resulting keyframes in an expression
Continue to use expressions throughout this class and the next class to get students thinking about ways they can incorporate expressions into their normal workflow

LESSON PLANS

Layer blend modes, including Shift+plus and Shift+minus keyboard shortcuts
Track mattes, the T switch and stencils
Adjustment layers, with effects like levels and hue/saturation
Tracker/Stabilizer
Keying with the Keylight Effect
Compound Effects (effects that use multiple layers), including compound blur, displacement map and gradient wipe
Precomposing and Nesting

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adobe After Effects CS3 Advanced

Duration: 3 days
Time: 10am - 5pm. Breaks are scheduled throughout the day and lunch is typically scheduled between 12-1pm
Course Materials: Vendor Authorized Courseware provided
Locations: Reston, VA / On-Site
Related Courses:
Cost: $1495
Registration: Click Here to Register

Course Synopsis

Adobe After Effects is a powerful software tool for visual effects and motion graphics. You can use After Effects’ tools to create dynamic designs for broadcast, web, DVD and film. This course will help you master the concepts and features to the program. It includes many advanced features, including tips and tricks using the latest version. We also recommend this course for those planning to obtain the Adobe Certified expert status.

Who Should Attend

Graphic professionals who want to enhance their motion editing and compositing. Experienced users will also benefit from the many tips and tricks and special exercises. Because of the amount of material we cover in class, we do require students to be comfortable using a mouse, opening and saving files, and the general operations of computers. While we will make every reasonable effort to help, students with insufficient skills may be required to observe the class lessons or do their best to keep up without slowing down the rest of the class. We highly recommend working with the application tutorial before coming to the course.

Prerequisites

Because of the amount of material we cover in class, we do require students to be comfortable using a mouse, opening and saving files, and the general operations of computers. While we will make every reasonable effort to help, students with insufficient skills may be required to observe the class lessons or do their best to keep up without slowing down the rest of the class.

What You Will Learn

Keyframe Complexity
Graphs
Keyframe Graphic Editor
Expressions
Render Queue
Path Text
Masks
Color Keying
Track Mattes
Compound Eff ects
Motion Stabilization and Tracking
Render Order/Precomposing
3D Animation
Matrix Movie Typography

LESSON PLANS

Keyframes
Different types of keyframes
Velocity
Keyframe shortcuts
Keyframe graph editor

Type Draw, Paint All
About Alphas
Working with Photoshop
Dots, Pixels and Inches
Working with Illustrator
Plugging in Type

The Matrix
Particle Playground

More On Eff ects
Production Bundle Eff ects Round-Up
Compound Eff ects

Animation Assistants
Additional Assistants
Motion Fun
Express Yourself
Animation and behavior presets

Keying
Using Keylight

Time and Tracking
Time Remapping
Time Games
On Stable Ground
Motion Tracking
Time warp

Expressions
Writing a simple expression
Linking expressions to motion track

Working with 3D
Cameras Lights
3D Layers

NLE Integration
Integration 101
Integration with Nonlinear Editing Systems

Format Issues and Rendering
Video Issues
Playing the Field
3:2 Pulldown Luminance and IRE Issues
Working with D1/DV NTSC
Working with Widescreen
Prerendering and Proxies
Advanced Rendering-Render Farm Concept
What’s Your Preference?
The Secret Preferences