Adobe After Effects is the industry leader for Video Composition that allows you to create QuickTime movies for output on the Web, CD ROM, Monitor, or full-motion broadcast quality video for television. You will learn how to mix a number of still images together to create a moving texture. Placing Compositions into other Compositions, using Keyframes & Layers, and Effective Rendering techniques will also be covered.

Students should have strong, working After Effects skills.

Students will learn:

• Working with Alpha Channels, Photoshop, Illustrator, Vector Paint, Text
• Production Bundle Utilities
• Expressions
• Production Bundle Effects and Compound Effects
• Texturizing and Displacement Map
• Keying and Matting
• Audio Basics
• Audio Effects
• Time Remapping and Manipulating Effects
• Motion Stabilizer and Tracking
• Working with 3D
• Video Issues
• Field Rendering
• Working with Film Resolution, Wide-screen, Pre-rendering and Proxies

Course overview:

• Type, Drawing and Painting Tools
• Animation Assistants
• Effects
• Working with Audio
• Time and Tracking
• 3D
• Format Issues and Rendering