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After Effects Intermediate Course

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.

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After Effects Intermediate training course

After Effects Intermediate Course

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.

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Course dates

Course dates Days Location Places RRP Discount You pay
16 to 17 November 2026 Mon-Tue London Islington Fully booked £549 £549 + VAT
2 to 3 December 2026 Wed-Thu Online Available £549 £120 £429 + VAT
21 to 22 January 2027 Thu-Fri London Islington Hurry. Two places left. £549 £100 £449 + VAT
23 to 24 February 2027 Tue-Wed Online Available £549 £50 £499 + VAT
24 to 25 March 2027 Wed-Thu London Islington Available £549 £549 + VAT
29 to 30 April 2027 Thu-Fri Online Available £549 £549 + VAT
1 to 2 June 2027 Tue-Wed London Islington Available £549 £549 + VAT
30 June to 1 July 2027 Wed-Thu Online Available £549 £549 + VAT
29 to 30 July 2027 Thu-Fri London Islington Available £549 £549 + VAT
23 to 24 August 2027 Mon-Tue Online Available £549 £549 + VAT
29 to 30 September 2027 Wed-Thu London Islington Available £549 £549 + VAT
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Course dates Days Location Places RRP Discount You pay
16 to 17 November 2026 Mon-Tue London Islington Fully booked £549 £549 + VAT
21 to 22 January 2027 Thu-Fri London Islington Hurry. Two places left. £549 £100 £449 + VAT
24 to 25 March 2027 Wed-Thu London Islington Available £549 £549 + VAT
1 to 2 June 2027 Tue-Wed London Islington Available £549 £549 + VAT
29 to 30 July 2027 Thu-Fri London Islington Available £549 £549 + VAT
29 to 30 September 2027 Wed-Thu London Islington Available £549 £549 + VAT
Course dates Days Location Places RRP Discount You pay
2 to 3 December 2026 Wed-Thu Online Available £549 £120 £429 + VAT
23 to 24 February 2027 Tue-Wed Online Available £549 £50 £499 + VAT
29 to 30 April 2027 Thu-Fri Online Available £549 £549 + VAT
30 June to 1 July 2027 Wed-Thu Online Available £549 £549 + VAT
23 to 24 August 2027 Mon-Tue Online Available £549 £549 + VAT

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16 to 17 November 2026

Mon-Tue

Location
London Islington
Places
Fully booked
RRP
£549
Discount
—
You pay
£549 + VAT

2 to 3 December 2026

Wed-Thu

Location
Online
Places
Available
RRP
£549
Discount
£120
You pay
£429 + VAT

21 to 22 January 2027

Thu-Fri

Location
London Islington
Places
Hurry. Two places left.
RRP
£549
Discount
£100
You pay
£449 + VAT

23 to 24 February 2027

Tue-Wed

Location
Online
Places
Available
RRP
£549
Discount
£50
You pay
£499 + VAT

24 to 25 March 2027

Wed-Thu

Location
London Islington
Places
Available
RRP
£549
Discount
—
You pay
£549 + VAT

29 to 30 April 2027

Thu-Fri

Location
Online
Places
Available
RRP
£549
Discount
—
You pay
£549 + VAT

1 to 2 June 2027

Tue-Wed

Location
London Islington
Places
Available
RRP
£549
Discount
—
You pay
£549 + VAT

30 June to 1 July 2027

Wed-Thu

Location
Online
Places
Available
RRP
£549
Discount
—
You pay
£549 + VAT

29 to 30 July 2027

Thu-Fri

Location
London Islington
Places
Available
RRP
£549
Discount
—
You pay
£549 + VAT

23 to 24 August 2027

Mon-Tue

Location
Online
Places
Available
RRP
£549
Discount
—
You pay
£549 + VAT

29 to 30 September 2027

Wed-Thu

Location
London Islington
Places
Available
RRP
£549
Discount
—
You pay
£549 + VAT

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

Who is this course for?

For After Effects users who want to develop advanced compositing and animation skills. Requires our After Effects Introduction course or equivalent working knowledge.

691 Reviews
9.6/10 Satisfaction
99.7% Recommend

Lots of really handy short cuts and lots of knowledge

Angharad – 16 September 2026

Great, light studio and friendly environment. Really knowledgable trainer who covered a lot of ground. Thanks - really enjoyed!

Katie – 16 September 2026

Clear instructions throughout the course, at a good pace meaning I was able to follow everything easily. Before the course, the reminder em…

Jane – 16 September 2026

Great knowledge by Neil, our course leader, always really in depth. Always happy to answer questions. Will be recommending to other colleag…

Amelia – 19 May 2026

Neil was really friendly, knowledgable and helpful. The course material was also diverse and covered everything I wanted to learn about goi…

Daniel – 19 May 2026

Organisation, he was very knowledgable and explained things really well. if we had any questions he seemed to be able know the answers stra…

Toby – 13 April 2026

Explaining concisely so it's easy to understand for everyone.

Prabesh – 13 April 2026

Very kind staff as always and very clear teaching.

Joshua – 13 April 2026

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