AE1500 | Foundation of After Effects
Motion Graphics, Effects & Compositing for Broadcast, Film and Digital Signage
Tap-Quiz
How can I create Late-Night style lip-sync?
Link the amplitude of your audio tracks to the Y-scale of a circle or CC Split.
Day 1
Layers, Masks & Animation
How do I import different kinds of footage, including layered Photoshop and Illustrator files? How do I mask off portions of footage? How do I add keyframes to create animations? How do I add, format, stylize and animate text? How do I add effects to make a scene look wintery or rainy?
Day 2
Advanced Animation
How can expressions and parenting simplify my animating? How can I create organic, optical-film style treatments and looks that don't seem like regular video superimposes? How can I create a rack-focus effect? What are the best ways to render my footage for importing into Final Cut Pro or Media Composer?
What's Covered
We create still pictures and video and add stylize it for broadcast.
Why would I want this training?
Audiences expect a highly finished product, and part of that involves great opening/closing credits, and good commercial bumpers Commercials should be stylized and embrace the visual, moving medium. After Effects provides the tools to enable that.
I'm not a video editor.
That's ok, we don't expect for you to be an editor to take this course. Broadcast Graphics Design is a field upon itself. It helps if you know editing, but it's not required.
Is this course Windows or Mac? CS4 or CS5
We teach this course on Mac OS X, but if you would prefer to have a workstation prepared for you on Windows, we can certainly arrange that - just give us notice when you register, and at least three business days so we can ensure to get a system configured for you. In this Foundation course, we don't get into the advanced new features in CS5, so we teach it on CS4.
Is there an exam?
There is no exam with this course, however this course will help you to prepare for the Adobe Certified Expert Exam, offered at Prometric Testing Centres throughout the world.
What book do I need?
There are many books available for After Effects, however you do not need one for this course. If you were to buy one, you might consider Adobe After Effects CS5 Classroom in a Book.
Do I need to bring anything else?
Headphones are required for this course and we ask that you bring your own.
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Instructor Bio
Woody has been successful as a professional video editor, working as a production editor in the Arts & Entertainment division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He has spent years performing online and offline editing for broadcast television. He was also a visual effects compositor on Season 4 of Lexx.
While living in England, Woody was a post-production consultant on Batman Begins, and a technical consultant on Harry Potter's 2 and 3. He was a trainer in broadcast news workflow at Al Aan TV in Dubai, TV3 and RTE in Dublin, BBC London, Aberdeen and Glasgow, and spent a year working for TV2/Kobenhavn, Denmark's 24-hour news channel.
Splice is endorsed by the Director’s Guild of Canada, Atlantic Regional Council, with whom Splice has had a training partnership program since 2008.
