Adobe After Effects CC Training Course Beginners

Adobe After Effects CC Overview

This Adobe After Effects training course is designed to get you up and running with the After Effects application by Adobe. As an absolute beginner, this Adobe After Effects course will be just what you need to understand the basics of animation, how to effectively use layers in Adobe After Effects along with training you how to create an animation for your mobile phone.

Adobe After Effects is the industry standard for motion graphics and visual effects. Adobe After Effects training will give you the skills to generate visually stunning work for films TV video and the Web. Adobe After Effects brings life and motion to Graphics.

Upon successful completion of this Adobe After Effects training course delegates will be able to:

To ensure your Adobe After Effects training course is suited to your requirements, one of our After Effects trainers would be happy to have a no obligation chat with you.

Course Duration: 2 Days

Course Prerequisites:

This is a Beginners Adobe After Effects training course and hence has a minimal of course prerequisites. These are as follows: The ability to use a PC or Mac (Use of the mouse or equivalent interface device)

• A basic understanding of your computers operating system - for example file management
• Able to use the Internet and download files
• Experience using other Adobe Creative Cloud platforms such as Photoshop or Illustrator may be beneficial but are not necessary
• A copy of Adobe After Effects, ask us about providing laptops.

Course Outline

Adobe After Effects Training Course - Getting Started

• Exploring After Effects Interface
• Exploring tools
• Exploring After Effects panels
• Customising Interface
• Creating a Custom Workspace
• Organising Media for After Effects

Basics of Animation in After Effects

• Importing Media into a Project
• Organising Media into Bins
• Setting up a Composition
• Adding Layers into a Composition
• Using the Timeline
• Creating Keyframes
• Changing Properties of Layers
• Customising RAM Preview

More In-Depth Animation

• Manipulating Keyframes in After Effects
• Customising Keyframes
• Keyframe Interpolation
• Roving Keyframes
• Easing Animations
• Using Anchor Point tool
• Using Motion Sketch for Animations
• Customising Motion Sketch
• Working on Animation Projects
• Creating an Animation for Mobile

Working with Layers

• Creating Layers
• Renaming, Hiding, Deleting Layers
• Trimming Layers
• Splitting Layers
• Creating Solid Layers
• Creating Adjustment Layers
• Applying Effects to Layers

Working with Text

• Creating Text Layers
• Customising Text with Character and Paragraph panels
• Using Auto-width and Fixed-width Text
• Animating Text
• Using Text Animation Presets
• Aligning Text

Slow Motion / Fast Motion

• Creating Slow Motion effect
• Creating Fast Motion effect
• Making changes to speed of clips
• Creating Super Smooth Slow Motion effect

Masking in After Effects

• Creating Layer Masks in After Effects
• Masking portions of a clip
• Editing Masks
• Creating Masking Effects with Track Mattes

Exporting Animations

• Rendering Animations in After Effects
• Sending Animations to Media Encoder
• Exporting Animations to Different Video/Animation Formats

Adobe After Effects Online Course

After Effects training is also available for online training via Zoom or Teams.

All you need to know about our Live Online Training.

Live Online Training

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Adobe After Effects CC Advanced Training Course

Adobe Premiere Pro CC Beginners Training Course

Adobe Premiere Pro CC Advanced Training Course

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