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    Adobe After Effects 3 Days | 18 hours | $1190 PLUS TAX

    Professional motion graphics and visual effects are within reach for Ottawa creators and communicators. Over three days, you'll work directly in After Effects with industry professionals guiding every step -- learning the real workflows used in production environments. Practical skills you can apply the moment you're back at your desk. Prerequisite: Photoshop.

    Understanding Motion Graphics

    • » Defining mograph
    • » Digital video basics
    • » Understanding video formats
    • » Frame rates and resolution

    The interface

    • » Menus
    • » Projects
    • » Panels
    • » Workspaces

    Media Management

    • » Importing media
    • » Organizing your Project panel
    • » Previewing Audio
    • » Working with Photoshop and Illustrator files
    • » Interpreting media

    Creating Animation

    • » Creating compositions
    • » Working with Layers
    • » Using Parenting to write Ae scriptsAnimation
    • » Animating properties
    • » Blur and Blending
    • » Layer styles
    • » Nesting and Precomposing

    Masks Mattes and Keys

    • » What are Masks?
    • » Creating and working with Shapes
    • » Track Mattes
    • » Chroma/Luma Keys

    Working with Text

    • » Creating text
    • » Formatting
    • » Animating
    • » Creating animation presets
    • » Creating custom text animators

    Working with Audio

    • » Adding audio
    • » How to preview audio
    • » Audio metadata
    • » Audio effects
    • » Audio composition markers

    Working in 3D

    • » RAM preview
    • » 3D Layers
    • » Material options
    • » Camera and lighting
    • » Adding depth of fi eld
    • » Ray traced rendering

    Advanced Animation

    • » Animating eff ect properties
    • » Creating animation presets
    • » Controlling time
    • » Smoother/ Wiggler
    • » Interpolation
    • » Squash and Stretch
    • » The Graph editor

    Tracking and stabilizing

    • » Tracker
    • » Mocha for Ae
    • » Warp Stabilizer
    • » 3D Camera solver

    Using the Pick Whip to create AE scripts

    • » LoopOut, Random, Wiggle
    • » Installing scripts
    • » Ease and Whiz