PME NTI : After Effects Introduction

Course Overview

On this training course in Birmingham City centre at the NTI Birmingahm delegates will use After Effects CS 5 and will explore a broad range of essential tools and techniques enabling them to develop an understanding of high-resolution multilayer compositing, animation and visual effects. Delegates will be able to navigate their way through the Adobe After Effects software with confidence and competently use a range of tools and features that this powerful software provides.

What you will learn:

• Workspace and file formats
• Bridge and templates
• Importing files
• Projects and compositions
• Useful keyboard shortcuts
• Working with layers
• Timeline V’s composition window
• Layers
• Basic animation and keyframing
• Applying effects
• Importing files from other applications
• Animation types and rules
• Working with paths
• Spatial and temporal keyframes
• Working with audio
• About time
• Adding basic effects
• Switches, buttons and modes
• Animation presets
• Workflow issues
• Image planning
• Previewing
• Basic text
• Text animators
• Working with the pen tool
• Basic masking
• Types of keying
• Blending modes
• Garbage mattes
• Precomposing
• Nesting
• Basic parenting and expressions
• Render settings
• Rendering
• Making templates
• Output modules

Entry Requirements

Pre-Requisites

Basic IT and Windows for PC users or OSX skills for Apple Mac users.