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This 2-day Introduction course helps you learn about the tools and features available in Adobe After Effects CC. We will help you understand how this industry-leading program takes visual effects and motion graphics to a new level. You will use the program's powerful tools to add a slick, professional look to all your movie projects. Our tips are sure to enhance the quality and creativity of your visual output.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

Navigate the After Effects environment
Create intermediate animations
Understand keyframe manipulation and interpolation
Work with layers, masks, and mattes
Apply special effects
Add titles and basic text
Use colour effectively
Export your files
Our goal is for you to understand the basic techniques for enhancing and applying effects to your visual projects.

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This course is intended for anyone new to the field of video and motion graphics who wants to learn about applying special effects.

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The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.

Getting Started
Workspace overview
Importing and organising assets
Projects & compositions
Working with layers
Adding Effects (FX)
Starting with FX
Fixed and applied FX
Understanding animation
Modifying motion paths
All about keyframes
Basic graph editor
All about Text
Creating text in After Effects
Layer styles
Animation options
Motion blur
Understanding range selectors
Animation presets
All about Shapes
Introduction to shape layers
Creating shapes from Ai files
Paths and how to use them
Animation options
Exporting your Final Projects
Project management
Export options
Exporting through Media Encoder
Dynamic link to Premiere Pro
Masks & Chroma-keying
Creating & animating masks
Tracking masks
Limiting FX to specific areas & Track Mattes
Property links
Green-screen chroma-keying with Keylight 1.2
Some Other Effects
Warp-stabilizer
Camera tracker
Motion tracking
Puppet-Pin tool
Write-on effect

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