Adobe After Effects CS3

Adobe After Effects CS3

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Course Outline | Adobe After Effects CS3 —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

Creating a Basic Animation Using Effects and Presets

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

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
  • Animating the dragonfly
  • 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
  • Creating an animated slide show
  • Adding an audio track
  • Zooming in for a final close-up
  • Sending the project to review

Animating Layers

  • Simulating lighting changes
  • Duplicating an animation using the pick whip
  • Animating movement in the scenery
  • Adjusting the layers and creating a track matte
  • Animating the shadows
  • Adding a lens flare effect
  • Animating the clock
  • Retiming the composition

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

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

Performing Color Correction

  • 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 building in 3D space
  • Using 3D views
  • Flipping the layer
  • Adding the street
  • Adding sides to the building
  • Working with a null object

Using 3D Features

  • Using 3D lights
  • Turning on shadows
  • Adding a camera
  • Adding an animated sphere
  • Adding 3D text
  • Previewing the entire animation

Advanced Editing Techniques

  • Using motion stabilization
  • Using single-point motion tracking
  • Using multipoint tracking
  • Creating a particle system
  • Retiming playback using the Timewarp effect

Rendering and Outputting

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

Course Outline | Adobe After Effects CS3 — 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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Name
Adobe After Effects CS3 - Level 1 and Level 2
Price
$1500
Date
2/9/09 - 2/13/09
Length
5 days
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Course Details

Level 1

Name
Adobe After Effects CS3 - Level 1
Price
$995
Date
2/9/09 - 2/11/09
Length
3 days
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Level 2

Name
Adobe After Effects CS3 - Level 2
Price
$695
Date
2/12/09 - 2/13/09
Length
2 days
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What's Included?

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

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.

Doug Hanley

Doug Hanley is a Mac support veteran of over 16 years and a user group founder. He is the President of MacTEK Consulting & Training, Inc., a computer consulting firm and Apple Authorized Training Center in Las Vegas. Doug is an Apple Certified Trainer and Apple Certified System Administrator. In his free time he is a regular Co-host on the Computer Outlook, a syndicated radio show at www.computeroutlook.com.

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.

Luisa Winters

Luisa Winters has been in the professional videography industry for 17 years. An awards winning videographer / editor, her tips make editing and compositing more productive, faster, and far more inventive. Luisa is a featured instructor for NAB, Government Video Expo, DV Expo, CES, NAB - NY and PMA. An accomplished videographer, editor, 3D animator and graphics designer, her compositions have been seen on broadcast TV as well as in private video productions. She has created and edited scores of video and web projects for dozens of corporate, government, and educational, commercial and private clients. Luisa has conducted training sessions and master classes for Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Flash and Encore DVD. Luisa is a Johns Hopkins University Graduate and is fluent in both English and Spanish.

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