AfterEffects CS4 Intermediate

Cost:

$595.00 (Online Class - Lodestone Live)
$795.00 (Lodestone Training Center)

Time: 10 AM - 4:30 PM EST
Length: 2 day class
Type: Instructor-led

Course Description:

Get ready to expand your After Effects knowledge! This class covers essential concepts, features, and techniques that are key to creating seamless movie-quality visual effects. You will learn techniques for effects compositing including color matching, keying, rotoscoping, motion tracking, emulating the camera, and concluding with using expressions in After Effects.

Learning Objectives:

This course covers intermediate and some advanced concepts of After Effects.

After taking this class you will be able to:

• Work with alpha channels and premultiplication of layers
• Build motion masks
• Create comps inside of comps
• Optimize your projects
• Perform color correcting
• Use After Effects keying tools with ease
• Use motion tracking
• Build scenes with cameras
• Script effects using expressions

Target Audience:

This class is for After Effects wizards looking to take thier skills to the next level. You should have some experience working in After Effects and are comfortable with the interface.

Course Outline:

Lesson 1: Selections - The Key to Compositing

• Selection Types
• Compositing: Science and Nature
• Alpha Channels and Premultiplication
• Masks
• Combine Selections
• Masks in Motion
• Blending Modes: Compositing Beyond Selections
• Track Mattes

Lesson 2: Optimize the Pipeline

• Multiple Compositions, Multiple Projects
• Adjustment and Guide Layers
• Render Pipeline
• Project Optimization

Lesson 3: Color Correction

• Optimized Levels
• Color Matching

Lesson 4: Color Keying

• Good Habits and Best Practices
• Linear Keyers and Hi-Con Mattes
• Blue and Green Screen Keys
• Get the Best Out of Keylight
• Beyond Keylight: Better Mattes

Lesson 5: Rotoscoping and Paint

• Articulated Mattes
• Beyond Built-in Limitations
• Morph
• Puppet
• Paint and Cloning

Lesson 6: Effective Motion Tracking

• Point Tracking Essentials
• Match Multiple Objects
• Stabilize a Moving Shot
• Incorporate MochaAE
• Use Tracking with Expressions
• Import 3D Tracking Data

Lesson 7: The Camera and Optics

• Cameras: Virtual and Real
• Storytelling and the Camera
• Camera Blur
• The Role of Grain
• Film and Video Looks

Lesson 8: Expressions

• What Expressions Are
• Creating Expressions
• The Language of Expressions
• Linking an Effect Parameter to a Property
• Using a Layer’s Index
• Looping Keyframes
• Using Markers
• Time Remapping Expressions
• Layer Space Transforms
• Color Sampling and Conversion

There are currently no public classes scheduled dates for this class. To schedule a private class, please call us toll free at 866-665-9441.

Please note, assigned instructor may change. Lodestone confirms instructor schedules two weeks prior to class date.

*Classes are online via Lodestone Live and at a Lodestone training center.
The only time that a class will cancel is either if there is a power failure or other major disruption in service.