16-17th Sep 26
Wed-Thu
Deepen your After Effects skills with advanced compositing, expressions and 3D on this two-day course.
Adobe Certified Experts take you beyond the basics into professional motion design.
Deepen your After Effects skills with advanced compositing, expressions and 3D on this two-day course. Adobe Certified Experts take you beyond the basics into professional motion design.
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.
New to After Effects?
Complete our After Effects Introduction course first.
To reach expert level, our After Effects Advanced course covers expressions, Cinema 4D integration and more.
| Course Dates | Days | Location | Places | RRP | Discount | You Pay | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16-17th Sep 26 | Wed-Thu | London Islington | SOLD OUT | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 12-13th Oct 26 | Mon-Tue | Online | Available | £549.00 | £120.00 | £429.00 + VAT | |
| 16-17th Nov 26 | Mon-Tue | London Islington | Available | £549.00 | £100.00 | £449.00 + VAT | |
| 2-3rd Dec 26 | Wed-Thu | Online | Available | £549.00 | £50.00 | £499.00 + VAT | |
| 18-19th Jan 27 | Mon-Tue | London Islington | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 23-24th Feb 27 | Tue-Wed | Online | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 24-25th Mar 27 | Wed-Thu | London Islington | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 29-30th Apr 27 | Thu-Fri | Online | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 1-2nd Jun 27 | Tue-Wed | London Islington | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 30th Jun - 1st Jul 27 | Wed-Thu | Online | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 29-30th Jul 27 | Thu-Fri | London Islington | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 23-24th Aug 27 | Mon-Tue | Online | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT |
| Course Dates | Days | Location | Places | RRP | Discount | You Pay | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16-17th Sep 26 | Wed-Thu | London Islington | SOLD OUT | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 16-17th Nov 26 | Mon-Tue | London Islington | Available | £549.00 | £100.00 | £449.00 + VAT | |
| 18-19th Jan 27 | Mon-Tue | London Islington | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 24-25th Mar 27 | Wed-Thu | London Islington | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 1-2nd Jun 27 | Tue-Wed | London Islington | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 29-30th Jul 27 | Thu-Fri | London Islington | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT |
| Course Dates | Days | Location | Places | RRP | Discount | You Pay | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12-13th Oct 26 | Mon-Tue | Online | Available | £549.00 | £120.00 | £429.00 + VAT | |
| 2-3rd Dec 26 | Wed-Thu | Online | Available | £549.00 | £50.00 | £499.00 + VAT | |
| 23-24th Feb 27 | Tue-Wed | Online | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 29-30th Apr 27 | Thu-Fri | Online | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 30th Jun - 1st Jul 27 | Wed-Thu | Online | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT | ||
| 23-24th Aug 27 | Mon-Tue | Online | Available | £549.00 | £549.00 + VAT |
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Available as private, bespoke or team training at our centre, live online, or at your venue. Customise the outline, train as a group, or book a one-to-one with an expert.
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Private & team training
Available as private, bespoke or team training at our centre, live online, or at your venue. Customise the outline, train as a group, or book a one-to-one with an expert.
Better workflow practices - structure
Workflow for replacing and organising your assets
Using Collect files for "Packaging"
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
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
Keyframe Interpolation
Spatial and Temporal Interpolation
Controlling bezier path behaviour
Two graphs in one - the Value and Velocity curves
Controlling Speed with the graph editor
Adjusting temporal Interpolation types for better control
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
Source text - a hidden gem
Creating counters - source text with an expression
Text animators in detail - advanced settings
Following an object in a shot - basic position tracking
How the tracker works
Track settings for better results
Tracker options
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
Adding more complex parameters to shape layers
Converting Vector files to shape layers for better control
Using Repeaters for shape generation and animation
Time remapping
Using correct Frame Blending settings
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
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
Dynamic link options
Examples of typical workflows
Cinema 4D Lite - how to access it
Using Cinema 4D files within After Effects
For After Effects users who want to develop advanced compositing and animation skills. Requires our After Effects Introduction course or equivalent working knowledge.
Great knowledge by Neil, our course leader, always really in depth. Always happy to answer questions. Will be recommending to other colleag…
Neil was really friendly, knowledgable and helpful. The course material was also diverse and covered everything I wanted to learn about goi…
Organisation, he was very knowledgable and explained things really well. if we had any questions he seemed to be able know the answers stra…
Explaining concisely so it's easy to understand for everyone.
Very kind staff as always and very clear teaching.
Really nice new location. Nice large bright classroom
Good at providing constant help when stuck on areas
Explaining stuff, Neil was very knowledgable
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