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Motion Graphics and Video Post-Production

After Effects | Bootcamp training is an in depth hands-on beginning thru intermediate class combining both level 1 & 2 into an integrated bootcamp. Learn this great tool for creating motion graphics and Hollywood style effects for cinema, broadcast television and web formats. Learn to create rich compositions with video, Photoshop files, Illustrator files, and create motion graphics, motion tracking, masking, advanced 3D & more.

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After Effects Training Outline | Bootcamp

Los Angeles Adobe After Effects Training

Audience
Our Adobe After Effects Bootcamp course is a combination of
After Effects | Level 1 and After Effects | Level 1.

This class is designed to get the beginner student up and running in After Effects and motion graphics and compositing. You will learn beginner through intermediate skills.

Prerequisites

Basic Computer Skills & File Management on Windows or Mac

Real-World Usage of After Effects

What is After Effects?
What kind of media can it be used to create?
What kind of media can be imported into After Effects?
The advantages of Adobe product integration
A typical After Effects workflow sequence

After Effects Project Management

What kind of media output is required?
What is the playback format for final output?
What restrictions are there for the
projects physical window frame size?
What restrictions are there for the
projects frame rate?
What restrictions are there for graphical screen-based assets?

Setting Up an After Effects Project

RAM and real-time rendering
Setting Preferences
Creating a Composition
Understanding and navigating the After Effects workspace
Working with After Effects Tools

Importing and Manipulating GRAPHICS

Importing Photoshop layered files
Importing Illustrator layered files
Working with layers and properties
Animating layer properties
Round-trip Editing:Editing graphics using an external editor
from within After Effects

Importing and Manipulating VIDEO CLIPS

Importing QuickTime movies
Video compression issues
Time-base issues
Frame rate issues
Laying video clips into the Time Layout Window
Changing video clip properties
Animating video clips
Superimposing video clips

Importing and Manipulating SOUND

Importing Sound
Audio compression issues
Manipulating sound cues in the Time Layout Window
Synching sound to visual events
Sound filters
Sound processing effects

Creating TEXT and TITLES

Importing text as bitmap graphics
Creating text within After Effects
Editing imported text within After Effects

Working with EFFECTS AND TRANSITIONS

Working with visual effects
Working with visual effect transitions

Working with MASKS

Transparency in the After Effects environment
Understanding alpha channels, masks, mattes, and keying
Creating masks in After Effects

Importing and Manipulating PREMIERE

Understanding Adobe Premiere
Importing Premiere projects into After Effects
Editing Premiere files using Premiere as an
external editor from within After Effects
Editing After Effects files using After Effects as an
external editor from within Premiere

Final Project File RENDERING

Testing for final export
Final file rendering for a variety of output formats
Choosing rendering options

Keying

About keying
Changing background color
Creating a garbage mask
Adding the foreground subject
Color Difference Key effect
Choking the matte
Removing spill
Adjusting contrast
Background animation
Titles
Adding animated elements
Copying effects across layers

Performing Color Correction

Lesson overview
Getting started
Adjusting color balance
Replacing an element of the shot
Lightening other dark areas
Correcting a range of colors
Warming colors with the Photo Filter effect
Removing unwanted elements

Building and Animating a 3D Object

Animating a square in 3D space
Using 3D views
Flipping the cube bottom
Creating the 3D floor
Building the cube sides
Animating the cube sides

Using 3D Effects

Using 3D lights
Turning on shadows

Working with Cameras

Adding a camera
Adding animated elements
Adding logos

Advanced Editing Techniques

Temporal Distortion: Timewarp
Parallax

Using Motion Stabilization

Single-point motion tracking
Multipoint tracking

Creating Particle Systems

Introduction to Particle systems
Particle worlds: Cyclore effects
Customising particle effects
Understanding particle system properties

Rendering and Output

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

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After Effects Related Classes

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	Photoshop \| Level 2
	Premiere \| Level 1
	Premiere\| Level 2
	Final Cut Pro \| Level 1
	Final Cut Pro \| Level 2

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Location	Length	Dates	Times	Cost

	After Effects \| Level 1
	After Effects \| Level 2
	Character Animator\| Level 1
	Photoshop \| Level 1
	Photoshop \| Level 2
	Premiere \| Level 1
	Premiere\| Level 2
	Final Cut Pro \| Level 1
	Final Cut Pro \| Level 2

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