Adobe After Effects Essentials

This course is aimed at people looking to professionally edit and manipulate video files, adding post production effects to a high standard

You should be comfortable using a computer, for example to copy and paste or open files and applications, and an understanding of common video terminology is an advantage

Adobe After Effects Essentials is a 2 day training course which covers all of the basic skills needed to get up and running
with Adobe After Effects. During the course you will learn to work with layers in After Effects, understand key framing,
control animations, work transparency, and better understand rendering and output. By the end of the course you will
be able to competently edit your video content using After Effects and applying best practice techniques.

The Adobe After Effects Essentials course covers all the basic skills needed in the post production of professional quality
video content.

After Effects User Interface and Animation

• What is a project file and what is in it?
• Tools and Panels
• Creating a Composition
• Importing Media into a Project

Basic Animation

• Adding layers to a composition
• Navigating the timeline
• Transform properties of layers
• Keyframing layer properties
• RAM preview

Intermediate Animation

• In-depth keyframe manipulation & interpolation
• Graph Editor
• Motion Sketch/Smoother
• Auto-Orient/Motion Blur
• Roving Keyframes
• Anchor Point/Pan Behind Tool

Layer Control

• Trim-move-stack-split
• Sequence Layers
• Looping Footage
• Image Sequences
• Frame Rate vs Time Stretch
• Blending Modes
• Effects & Solids
• Blending Modes
• Layer Styles
• Masks

Transparency

• Opacity
• Masks
• Shape
• Feather
• Expansion
• Masking with the Pen Tool
• Track Mattes 

Effects

• Effects and Presets Panels
• Applying Effects to layers
• Modifying Effects using the Effects Control Panel
• Animating Effects
• Changing order of Effects
• Using Adjustment Layers 

The Text Tool

• Using the text tool
• Animating text
• Text animation presets 

Render Order

• How After Effects puts it all together
• Exporting files
• Add to Render Queue
• Add to Adobe Media Encoder Queue