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After Effects

Adobe After Effects CS4 is a digital motion graphics compositing software that is used mainly for film and video post-production. The layered timeline format allows multiple levels of vector or bitmap graphics to be blend seamlessly into video from chroma-keying to stunning 3D and visual effects.

Ideal for:
Video post-production: SD, HDV, HD, Film
Motion Graphics
Text Animation
Video for Mobile
Titling for Video & Film
Broadcast Design
Visual Effects
Computer Games

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BEGINNERS: The Essentials
Course Duration: 12 Hours
Course Fee: $500
Registration Fee: $35

This beginner's course introduces the basics of the industry-standard tool for motion graphics and special effects design and production. In this 12 hours you will learn the basic navigation around the interface, importing and exporting elements, keyframe animation and time remapping to add complex, yet simple, impact to your animations.

COURSE OUTLINE
Introduction to After Effects
The Workspace
The Comp Panel
Timeline and Previewing
Importing and Organising Footage
Video Standards and the Clip Panel
Keyframe Animation
Motion Basics
Advanced Motion & the Graph Editor
Roving Keyframes and Staggering Magic

INTERMEDIATE
Course Duration: 12 Hours
Course Fee: $600
Registration Fee: $35

This intermediate course in motion graphics and special effects design and production continues on from the beginner's course. It helps you understand and use powerful masking and blending modes, create mattes, and use adjustment layers to enhance the effects of your animations and make a difference to your work.

COURSE OUTLINE
Parenting, Nesting & Time Remapping
Masking
Effects & Presets
Mattes & Blending Modes
Track Mattes, Adjustment Layers & Effects
Creating & Formatting Type
Basic Text Animation & Presets
Output & Export
Preferences

ADVANCED: Broadcast Techniques
Course Duration: 12 Hours
Course Fee: $700
Registration Fee: $35

Discover real strategies of broadcast design and how to think like a broadcaster. This course is an advanced approach to common features enables you to create extraordinary and inventive results from simple source materials, with a minimum of time and effort. The techniques used are unique and robust enough to be used under a number of circumstances. Instead of spending days rotoscoping, you will be able to complete high-end compositing jobs in a small fraction of the time using our techniques.

COURSE OUTLINE
Keying Workflow
Colour Adjustment & Compositing Techniques
All About Rotoscoping
Dynamic Motion Tracking
Creating a News Bumper
Opening Title Sequence
Corporate Identity Piece

ADVANCED: Professional Features
Course Duration: 12 Hours
Course Fee: $700
Registration Fee: $35

This course brings you through After Effects' professional feature set. The lessons focus on important aspects of special effects, rotoscoping, expressions, and 3D motion graphics. Take a journey into After Effects' incredible 3D world, with lights, cameras, motion and expressions for realistic animation. Plus, advance your skills to the next level with an in-depth and practical look at the effects, techniques, tips, and tricks used for high-end productions.

COURSE OUTLINE
Text Uberanimation
Welcome to 3D
Creating & Controlling 3D Cameras
3D Objects, Light & Cameras
3D Objects Lights & Materials
Intro to Expressions
Controlled Randomness
Expressions Dessert
Tips and Tricks
 

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