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After Effects Course Online April 14, 2025 BootCamp
After Effects Bootcamp
$1,590.00
This four-day comprehensive After Effects training provides introductory through advanced skills for creating effects, animations, and motion graphics. This bootcamp combines our introductory through advanced After Effects classes into four consecutive days, providing you with an intensive multi-day workshop. The material covered is identical to the introductory and advanced After Effects courses, but is delivered in a single week. You start by learning essential After Effects skills and end the week with a full set of experience across a wide range of effects, color correction, compositing, and many other skills. This course is a perfect starting point for video editors wanting to learn effects and animations, as well as aspiring motion graphics and animation professionals.
After Effects Bootcamp course topics
Digital Video basics using Adobe After Effects
- Analog versus digital
- Frame rate and resolution
- Storage space and system requirements
- Defining motion graphics
Learning 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 in After Effects
- 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 formats
- Understanding the render queue
- Adjusting render settings
- Duplicating jobs in the render queue
- Creating render templates
- Exporting a project file
- Rendering an individual frame
- After Effects Workflow considerations
- Greenscreen shooting basics
- Using masks for compositing (garbage mattes)
- Using keylight
- Refining a matte
- Understanding motion tracking
- Motion tracking vs stabilization
- Setting a track point
- Using null objects
- Compositing 2D graphics
- Using the warp stabilizer
- Using the 3D camera tracker
- Compositing 3D graphics with video
- Understanding time remapping
- Slow motion effects
- Fast motion effects
- Using frame blending
- Adjusting tonality
- Advanced color adjustments
Rotoscoping video footage
- Manual rotoscoping
- Using the roto brush
- Painting on color
- Fog
- Smoke
- Mist
- Wind
- Precipitation
- Fire
- Heat distortion
- Explosive effects
- Render output settings
- Output module templates
The course topics serve as an outline for the course. Instructors may adjust content based on the specific needs of each class, such as to answer your After Effects questions.
Why After Effects classes at AGI are the best option for you
- Hands-on learning: Learn After Effects quickly with our proven teaching methods.
- Exceptional curriculum: AGI has delivered After Effects training to thousands over 25 years.
- Expert instructors: Our instructors are After Effects experts and skilled educators.
- Small class sizes: Receive personalized attention with 10 or fewer participants per class.
- Repeat for Free: If you need a refresher or miss a class day, retake the After Effects class at no cost.