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Adobe After Effects 101: An Overview of After Effects CS3
Three Day After Effects Training Course

As a Level 1 course, our Adobe After Effects CS3 class is for design and corporate communications professionals who need an essential understanding of motion graphics and compositing. No previous experience of After Effects required. All students should be familiar with using a mouse, file management, and general operations of a Macintosh or Windows operating system.

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Real-World Usage of After Effects

  1. Overview over After Effects
  2. Types of media that can it be used to create
  3. Types of media that can be imported into After Effects
  4. Advantages of Adobe product integration
  5. A typical After Effects workflow sequence

After Effects Project Management

  1. Types of required media output
  2. Playback format for final output
  3. Restrictions that are there for the projects physical window
    frame size
  4. Types of Restrictions that are there for the projects frame rate
  5. Types of Restrictions that are there for graphical
    screen-based assets


Setting Up an Affter Effects Project

  1. RAM and real-time rendering
  2. Setting Preferences
  3. Creating a Composition
  4. Understanding and navigating the After Effects workspace
  5. Working with After Effects Tools

Importing and Manipulating Graphics

  1. Importing Photoshop layered files
  2. Importing Illustrator layered files
  3. Working with layers and properties
  4. Animating layer properties
  5. Round-trip Editing:Editing graphics using an external
    editor from within After Effects


Importing and Manipulating Video Clips

  1. Importing QuickTime movies
  2. Video compression issues
  3. Time-base issues
  4. Frame rate issues
  5. Laying video clips into the Time Layout Window
  6. Changing video clip properties
  7. Animating video clips
  8. Superimposing video clips

Importing and Manipulating Sound

  1. Importing Sound
  2. Audio compression issues
  3. Manipulating sound cues in the Time Layout Window
  4. Synching sound to visual events
  5. Sound filters
  6. Sound processing effects
 Creating Text and Titles
  1. Importing text as bitmap graphics
  2. Creating text within After Effects
  3. Editing imported text within After Effects

Working with Effects and Transitions

  1. Working with visual effects
  2. Working with visual effect transitions

Working with Masks

  1. Transparency in the After Effects environment
  2. Understanding alpha channels, masks, mattes, and keying
  3. Creating masks in After Effects

Importing and Manipulating Premiere

  1. Understanding Adobe Premiere
  2. Importing Premiere projects into After Effects
  3. Editing Premiere files using Premiere as an external editor
    from within After Effects
  4. Editing After Effects files using After Effects as an external
    editor from within Premiere


Final Project Rendering

  1. Testing for final export
  2. Final file rendering for a variety of output formats
  3. Choosing rendering options

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