
Advanced After Effects Creative Cloud (CC) Training
Course Length: 3 days
Delivery Methods:
Available as private class only
Course Overview
In this Advanced After Effects CC training class, students will learn advanced-level features of the program.
Course Benefits
- Learn how to use animate tools
- Learn to work with masks.
- Learn to work with puppet tools.
- Use the Roto Brush Tool with your projects.
- Learn to color correct in After Effects.
- Work with 3D Features
Course Outline
- Animating Layers
- Preparing Layered Photoshop Files
- About Photoshop Layer Styles
- Simulating Lighting Changes
- Duplicating an Animation Using the Pick Whip
- About Expressions
- Animating Movement in the Scenery
- Adjusting the Layers and Creating a Track Matte
- About Track Mattes and Traveling Mattes
- Animating the Shadows
- Adding a Lens Flare Effect
- Adding a Video Animation
- Rendering the Animation
- Retiming the Composition
- Working with Masks
- Creating a Mask with the Pen Tool
- Editing a Mask
- About Mask Modes
- Creating a Bezier Mask
- Feathering the Edges of a Mask
- Replacing the Content of the Mask
- Zooming and Panning by Touch
- Adding a Reflection
- Creating a Vignette
- Using the Rectangle and Ellipse Tools
- Adjusting the Timing
- Tips for Creating Masks
- Trimming the Work Area
- Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools
- About the Puppet Tools
- Adding Deform Pins
- Defining Areas of Overlap
- Stiffening an Area
- Animating Pin Positions
- Squash and Stretch
- Recording Animation
- Act It Out with Adobe Character Animator
- Using the Roto Brush Tool
- Creating a Segmentation Boundary
- Using Adobe Premiere Pro with After Effects
- Fine-tuning the Matte
- Refine Soft Matte and Refine Hard Matte Effects
- Freezing Your Roto Brush Tool Results
- Changing the Background
- Adding Animated Text
- Outputting Your Project
- Performing Color Correction
- Previewing Your Project on a Video Monitor
- Adjusting Color Balance with Levels
- Adjusting Color Balance with Color Finesse 3
- Replacing the Background
- Color-correcting Using Auto Levels
- Motion Tracking the Clouds
- Replacing the Sky in the Second Clip
- Color Grading
- Using 3D Features
- Creating 3D Text
- Using 3D Views
- Importing a Background
- Adding 3D Lights
- Adding a Camera
- Extruding Text in After Effects
- Working with Cinema 4D Lite
- Integrating the C4D Layer in After Effects
Class Materials
Each student will receive a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.
Class Prerequisites
Experience in the following is required for this After Effects class:
- Basic knowledge of After Effects.
Prerequisite Courses
Courses that can help you meet these prerequisites:
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