Adobe After Effects CS3

Overview:

Adobe After Effects CS3 delivers the speed, precision and powerful tools necessary to produce visually innovative motion graphics and effects for video, DVD and the Web. This course provides the fundamental concepts and features to master this powerful program.

Description:

Who Should Attend:
Design and corporate communications professionals who need an essential understanding of motion graphics and compositing.
   
Prerequisites:
This is a level 1 course. No previous experience with the program is required. All students should be familiar with using a mouse, file management and general operations of a Macintosh or Windows operating system. 
   
   
Course Outline:  
   
INTRODUCTION
Real-World Usage of After Effects
What is After Effects?
What kind of media can it be used to create?
What kind of media can be imported into After Effects?
The advantages of Adobe product integration
A typical After Effects workflow sequence

BEFORE YOU BEGIN
After Effects Project Management
What kind of media output is required?
What is the playback format for final output?
What restrictions are there for the project’s physical window frame size?
What restrictions are there for the project’s frame rate?
What restrictions are there for graphical screen-based assets?

HANDS-ON Lesson 1
Setting Up an After Effects Project
RAM and real-time rendering
Setting Preferences
Creating a “Composition”
Understanding and navigating the After
 Effects workspace
Working with After Effects’ Tools

HANDS-ON Lesson 2
Importing and Manipulating GRAPHICS
Importing Photoshop layered files
Importing Illustrator layered files
Working with layers and properties
Animating layer properties
Round-trip Editing:Editing graphics
using an external editor from within After Effects

HANDS-ON Lesson 3
Importing and Manipulating VIDEO CLIPS
Importing QuickTime movies
Video compression issues
Time-base issues
Frame rate issues
Laying video clips into the Time Layout Window
Changing video clip properties
Animating video clips
Superimposing video clips

HANDS-ON Lesson 4
Importing and Manipulating SOUND
Importing Sound
Audio compression issues
Manipulating sound cues in the Time
Layout Window
Synching sound to visual events
Sound filters
Sound processing effects

HANDS-ON Lesson 5
Creating TEXT and TITLES
Importing text as bitmap graphics
Creating text within After Effects
Editing imported text within After Effects

HANDS-ON Lesson 6
Working with EFFECTS AND TRANSITIONS
Working with visual effects
Working with visual effect transitions

HANDS-ON Lesson 7
Working with MASKS
Transparency in the After Effects  environment
Understanding alpha channels, masks, mattes, and keying
Creating masks in After Effects

HANDS-ON Lesson 8
Importing and Manipulating PREMIERE PROJECTS
Understanding Adobe Premiere
Importing Premiere projects into After Effects
Editing Premiere files using Premiere as an
 external editor from within After Effects
Editing After Effects files using After Effects as an external editor from within Premiere

HANDS-ON Lesson 9
Final Project File RENDERING
Testing for final export
Final file rendering for a variety of output formats
Choosing rendering options