Adobe After Effects
Training Classes
AGI offers regularly scheduled public After Effects training classes and also private After Effects training classes. AGI offers several ways to learn After Effects.
Adobe After Effects Training Class
- Digital Video basics in Adobe After Effects
- Analog versus Digital
- Frame Rate and Resolution
- Storage Space and System Requirements
- Defining Motion Graphics
- Using the After Effects Interface
- Creating a Project
- Understanding the After Effects panel system
- Organizing the Project Window
- Understanding the Composition Window
- Working in the Timeline Window
- RAM Preview vs. Standard Preview
- Media Management
- Importing media files
- Importing Photoshop and Illustrator files
- Previewing footage
- Previewing stills and video
- Previewing audio
- Trimming a video clip
- Using the Interpret Footage dialog box
- Looping an audio or video file
- Using Layers in Adobe After Effects
- Layer Basics
- Layer Options
- Creating a Layer Solid
- Understanding the layer switches
- Time Stretch and Frame Blending
- Nesting Compositions/Layers using precomps
- Using Keyframes in Adobe After Effects
- Animation of layer properties using keyframes
- Using layer parenting to ease repetition
- Understanding motion paths
- Working with layer blending
- Controlling the speed of animations
- Easing principles
- Using Text in Adobe After Effects
- Creating Text
- Character palette
- Paragraph palette
- Animating Text with Keyframes
- Animating Text Using Presets
- Using Bridge with After Effects
- Masking and Alpha Channels in Adobe After Effects
- Masking
- Animating Masks
- Working with Alpha Channels
- Track Matte
- Using Effects in Adobe After Effects
- Effect Basics
- Animating Effects
- Introduction to 3D in After Effects
- Exploring the 3D capabilities and limitations of After Effects
- Creating 3D layers
- Using multiple viewports
- Understanding 3D Transform properties
- Animating 3D layers
- Creating and using lights
- Outputting in Adobe After Effects
- Rendering from a composition to various format
- Understanding the Render Queue
- Adjusting render settings
- Duplicating jobs in the Render Queue
- Creating render templates
- Exporting a project file
- Rendering an individual frame
Adobe After Effects Training Class Topics Covered
Adobe After Effects Class Length: 2 days
Learn to use this comprehensive software tool to efficiently produce motion graphics and visual effects for film, video, multimedia, and the Web. This two-day class will teach you to use Adobe After Effects powerful toolset to create a wide range of visual and audio effects. Updated for Version CS5. Contact AGI about this After Effects training class.
The After Effects CS5 Level I training course includes a copy of AGI's own After Effects CS5 Digital Classroom, published by AGI and Wiley. Contact AGI about this After Effects training class.
Adobe After Effects Training Class Prerequisites
We recommend that you have the Adobe After Effects CS5 software before starting the class. You can purchase the software or obtain a trial version of it at from the Adobe website.
Adobe After Effects Training Class Course Materials
You will receive a comprehensive course manual for this class developed by the Adobe Certified Instructors at AGI. AGI instructors that have created many of the official training guides and books for Adobe Systems.
Adobe After Effects Training Class Information
Register or call (800) 851-9237
See dates for After Effects Level I Training
| Adobe After Effects Training Class Schedule | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| City | Month | Day | Time |
| New York City | June | 11 + 12 | 9:30am - 4:30pm EST |
| Boston, Philadelphia | June | 13 + 14 | 9:30am - 4:30pm EST |
| Boston, New York City, Online, Philadelphia | July | 16 + 17 | 9:30am - 4:30pm EST |
| Boston, New York City, Philadelphia | August | 20 + 21 | 9:30am - 4:30pm EST |
| Boston, New York City, Online, Philadelphia | October | 3 + 4 | 9:30am - 4:30pm EST |
| Boston, New York City, Philadelphia | November | 5 + 6 | 9:30am - 4:30pm EST |
| Boston, New York City, Online, Philadelphia | May | 16 + 17 | 9:30am - 4:30pm EST |
If the dates listed above are inconvenient, please call us at 800-851-9237 for more options.
Adobe After Effects Level I is offered in New York City, Online and Boston (Woburn). Adobe After Effects Level 1 is also offered in Chicago, Orlando, London, or Philadelphia at your location as a custom training class.
Adobe After Effects Training Class Level I: Course Rate $795.00
Save $100: Take Premiere I & After Effects Training Classes for $1490.00
Save $200: Take Premiere Training Class Levels I, II, & After Effects Training Class for $2,185.00
Register for any two classes together and receive a $100 discount by entering Bundle2 as the coupon code when registering online. Register for any three classes together and receive a $200 discount by entering Bundle3 as the coupon code when registering online.
Register or call (800) 851-9237
Private or custom Adobe After Effects Training
AGI offers customized Adobe After Effects training at your office or at our locations. Whether you need introductory Adobe After Effects training or advanced training, our Adobe Certified Expert instructors are available for all of your Adobe After Effects training needs.
- - Contact AGI to learn more about our Adobe After Effects training classes. Contact Form
- - Contact AGI to arrange a private Adobe After Effects training class. Private Training Request Form
- - Call AGI at (800) 851-9237 or (781) 376-6044 to talk with a representative about our Adobe After Effects training courses
Adobe After Effects Training Class Locations
AGI offers regularly scheduled and private After Effects classes at our training centers. Adobe After Effects Training in or near Boston, Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia, Orlando, and London, England.Visit our After Effects training class locations pages.
- Boston After Effects Training
- New York, NY After Effects Training
- Philadelphia After Effects Training
- Orlando After Effects Training
- Chicago After Effects Training
- London After Effects Training
About AGI's After Effects Training
AGI’s team of instructors have been teaching After Effects for more than a decade. They’ve written some of the best-selling Adobe training books, and have trained many on how to create motion graphics and stunning visual effects with After Effects. Adobe has called upon our team of experts to help train their employees—so you can be confident that you are learning from the best when you take a class with AGI or hire AGI to train your group.
- Learn more about AGI's Training Expertise (pdf)
- See new features of Adobe After Effects CS5 explained in this AGI Training video
- AGI’s After Effects training classes are the best place to learn After Effects. You’ll learn After Effects from the authors of this After Effects training book:
After Effects CS5 Digital Classroom
- Request information for private or custom Adobe After Effects Training classes
- Learn more about AGI's Training Expertise
- Watch an After Effects CS5 Training Video Tutorial from AGI instructors on YouTube
Additional Resources for Learning After Effects
Adobe After Effects CS5 Digital Classroom

AGI Instructors are the authors of the Adobe After Effects CS5 Digital Classroom book.
Adobe After Effects CS5
You can purchase the Adobe After Effects software or obtain a trial version of it at from the Adobe web site.
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