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Training Outline - Adobe After Effects - Advanced

Adobe After Effects – Advanced Training

Two day course

COURSE CONTENT

Day One

Optimising System Preferences

Making the best use of available RAM
Using Video Preview
Checking After Effects preferences

Going Crazy with Keyframes

Alternative methods to make keyframes
- Motion sketch
- Smoothing keyframes
- Adding randomness to your keyframes
- Introducing Expressions
Using the Motion Tracker
- Tracking a single point
- Correct stabilisation
- Tracking multiple points
- Corner-point pinning
- Quick peak at Mocha for After Effects (CS4 only)

Creative Use of Layering

Duplicating success
Working the Keyer
- Working the different keyers
- Luma keying
- Chromakeying & Keylight
- Set Matte

Hardcore Keying

Using the alpha view mode
Correcting tolerance settings
Spill suppression
Light wrapping
Finishing the effect

Designing and Tracking Mattes

Garbage mattes
Linking mattes
Track mattes

Nesting compositions

Reducing your render load
Recycling material
Working with proxies

Day Two

Improving the visual value of your material

Fields vs. Frames
How you read colour
Motion blur

Colour Theory and Designing Colour Effects

Further Colour Theory
- Understanding colour spaces
- The importance of calibrating your equipment
Compensating for difficult footage
Using histograms
Using curves
Colour matching
Designing a colour grade

Working in 3D Space

Understanding the difference between 2D and 3D
Working 3D in a 2D environment
Planes, grains and auto-orientation
Working with an AE camera

Using Expressions

Why use expressions?
Simple expressions and parenting
Creating and saving expressions

Text Effects

Built-in text generator
Bringing text in from third-party applications
Bitmaps vs. vectors
Using text in 3D

Plug-ins – Creativity Unleashed

Plug-in effects and filter stacks
Adding plug-ins

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