After Effects CS6 Essential Training

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About this Course

In this course, expert introduces Adobe After Effects CS6 and the world of animation, effects, and compositing.

Chapter 1 introduces the six foundations of After Effects, which include concepts like layers, keyframes, rendering, and moving in 3D space. The rest of the course expands on these ideas, and shows how to build compositions with layers, perform rotoscoping, animate your composition with keyframes, add effects and transitions, and render and export the finished piece.

Two real-world example projects demonstrate keying green screen footage and creating an advanced 3D composition with the expanded 3D toolset, an important addition to CS6.

 

Topics include:

  • Setting up the workspace, important preferences, and the cache
  • Importing footage and comps
  • Relinking missing footage
  • Creating type, shape layers, and masks
  • Rotoscoping with the Roto Brush
  • Adjusting keyframes in the Graph Editor
  • Timing animations to audio
  • Building backgrounds with effects
  • Rendering with the Render Queue and Adobe Media Encoder
  • Animating 3D type
  • Smoothing shaky footage and retouching footage
  • Keying green screen footage
  • Working with 3D: extruding shapes, adding ray-traced lighting, and more

 

1. Getting Started
The six foundations of AE
5m 3s
Introducing the interface and the workspace
7m 51s
Understanding compositions
8m 48s
Getting comfortable with layers
7m 33s
Getting started with animation and keyframes
8m 30s
Understanding effects
3m 26s
Moving in 3D space
7m 41s
Rendering your first animation
8m 20s
Specifying preferences and cache settings
5m 44s
Staying organized
5m 15s


2. Understanding Compositions
Creating compositions
7m 19s
Importing footage and compositions
7m 54s
Preparing compositions for animation
8m 7s
Introducing renderers
3m 15s
Understanding precomposing
7m 16s
Relinking missing footage
4m 15s


3. Building and Designing with Layers
Defining layers
6m 23s
Creating type
5m 58s
Creating layer solids and shapes with masks
7m 55s
Building shape layers
6m 17s
Understanding switches and blend modes
8m 26s
Crafting custom shapes and masks
6m 18s
Creating variable-width feathered masks
5m 1s
Rotoscoping with the Roto Brush
8m 20s
Refining with the Roto Brush
5m 20s


4. Animation 101
Understanding keyframes
6m 1s
Adding and adjusting keyframes
9m 54s
Interpolating keyframes
8m 5s
Adjusting keyframes in the Graph Editor
7m 17s
Understanding positional keyframes
7m
Controlling animation with parenting and the pick whip
9m 57s
Understanding animation paths
6m 27s
Timing to audio
4m 41s
Trimming and sliding edits
5m 31s
Swapping images
4m 1s


5. Using Effects to Modify Layers
Layering multiple effects
9m 13s
Generating graphic effects with adjustment layers
7m 28s
Building backgrounds with effects
6m 50s
Creating animated strokes
5m 36s


6. Jumping into 3D
Introducing cameras
10m 3s
Working with 3D layers
6m 37s
Positioning layers
6m 13s
Adding lights and working with Material Options
9m 21s
Using 3D precompositions
2m 5s
Adjusting depth of field
5m 56s


7. Exporting and Rendering
Caching and prerendering
6m 33s
Understanding the alpha channels
5m 18s
Using the Render Queue
4m 34s
Rendering with Adobe Media Encoder
7m 15s
Archiving finished projects
4m 51s


8. Going in Depth with Type and Shapes
Creating type animators
12m 16s
Animating type in 3D space
6m 35s
Composing 3D type
8m 41s
Adding and animating type on a path
8m 45s
Animating shape layers
8m 10s


9. Video in Depth
Creating stylized video
6m 47s
Retiming video footage
9m 31s
Retouching with the Rubber Stamp tool
10m 19s
Smoothing shaky camera footage
6m 8s


10. Project: Keying Green Screen Footage
Understanding keying
3m 19s
Creating a garbage mask
4m 27s
Getting started with Keylight
6m 33s


11. Integrating External Projects
Importing Photoshop documents
6m 11s
Importing Illustrator files
4m 24s
Working With Premiere Pro projects
5m 21s


12. Project: Tracking and Advanced 3D
Adjusting ray-tracing quality
8m 19s
Tracking footage
8m 15s
Extruding shapes
8m 39s
Bending layers
8m 38s
Adjusting ray-traced lighting and materials
9m 22s
Adding environment maps
4m 58s
Beginning compositing
8m 52s
Creating render passes
10m 17s
Building a final composite
8m 14s

 

Duration: 8.5 hours

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