After Effects Intermediate

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After Effects Intermediate

This Intermediate level Adobe After Effects covers a range of topics to enhance your skills and knowledge. It starts with project settings and workflow practices, including asset organization and file packaging.

You'll learn about checking footage integrity and understanding Alpha Channels. The course explores effects in detail, such as masks, colour correction, and combining effects with layer modes.

Keyframes and the graph editor are covered for precise animation control. You'll gain insights into masks, rotoscoping, and using Chroma keying to remove backgrounds.

Text layers, motion tracking, expressions, shape layers, time changes, render settings, 3D layers, and integration with Adobe Premiere and Cinema 4D are also addressed.

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Two Days

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10:00 - 16:30 GMT

  • icon Enhance workflow practices and project structure
  • icon Alpha Channels and their correct usage
  • icon Advanced techniques for keyframes, and masks
  • icon Text layers and motion tracking
  • icon 3D layers and integration with Premiere

You'll need to have attended our After Effects Intro course or have equivalent working knowledge before joining this class.

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2-3rd Jun 25 (Mon-Tue)

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10-11th Jul 25 (Thu-Fri)

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17-18th Jul 25 (Thu-Fri)

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28-29th Jul 25 (Mon-Tue)

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7-8th Aug 25 (Thu-Fri)

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Course Outline

1

Project Settings in detail

Better workflow practices - structure

Workflow for replacing and organising your assets

Using Collect files for "Packaging"

2

The Info Palette

Checking footage integrity

Checking the Alpha Channel

How Alpha Channels really work

Avoiding basic Alpha mistakes

Bit depth and colour spaces - 8,16 and 32 Bits per channel

3

Exploring Effects in detail

Using masks with effects - "compositing options"

Better colour correction

Combining effects with layers modes

Better effect combination with effect transfer modes

Some key under used effects

Distortions and Warps

Basic particle systems

4

Keyframes in detail

Keyframe Interpolation

Spatial and Temporal Interpolation

Controlling bezier path behaviour

5

The Graph Editor

Two graphs in one - the Value and Velocity curves

Controlling Speed with the graph editor

Adjusting temporal Interpolation types for better control

6

More advanced masks in After Effects

Tips for better mask control

Creating a basic Rotoscope

Rotoscoping with Roto Brush 3

Rotoscoping - good and bad examples

Refining edges

Avoiding Rotoscoping where possible

Mask Tracking

Using Chroma keying to remove backgrounds

7

Text Layers

Source text - a hidden gem

Creating counters - source text with an expression

Text animators in detail - advanced settings

8

Motion Tracking

Following an object in a shot - basic position tracking

How the tracker works

Track settings for better results

Tracker options

9

Basic expressions

Wiggling and looping - getting better control

Loop types

Duplicating Wiggles - why and how

Random "Seeds" - how they work and why it matters

Linking properties with the "Pickwhip"

Using Expression controls

Using Expressions to create animations easily

Creating automatic audio based animation

10

Advanced Shape Layers

Adding more complex parameters to shape layers

Converting Vector files to shape layers for better control

Using Repeaters for shape generation and animation

11

Time changes

Time remapping

Using correct Frame Blending settings

12

Render Settings in detail

Alpha output - avoiding problems with pre-multiplication

File formats with greater bit depth

Better use of Media encoder

Compression settings - bit rates and how compressed files work

13

A detailed understanding of 3D Layers

Camera settings

Depth of field

3D rendered choices

Geometry options for extrusion

Material options and reflections

Lights Settings in detail

Shadow problems solved

Animated Camera problems and solutions

Creating a Camera "Orbit Null"

Creating complex camera animation easily

The Collapse transformation button in 3D

14

Using After Effects with Adobe Premiere

Dynamic link options

Examples of typical workflows

15

The link to Cinema 4D

Cinema 4D Lite - how to access it

Using Cinema 4D files within After Effects

16

Questions and answers

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