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In this course, you'll learn how to take your work in After Effects beyond the basics. We show you how to properly plan a concept and a motion design sequence. We'll teach you some great compositing and animation techniques to transform existing footage into something new. We also provide you with plenty of everyday workflow and expressions tips for working faster and more efficiently. Our course is taught by industry professionals who are also Adobe Certified Professional trainers. They will share years of their industry experience with you so you get to see how the professionals really work, in just two days.

Booking a private training session allows you to focus on your exact needs on dates that work best for you or your team.
•	Sessions can be run online or in person, on your site or at our London training centre.
•	We manage training for many of the UK’s largest companies, taking care of all the admin, working with you to ensure the perfect course.
•	Our expert trainers will first understand your requirements and then tailor each session to your exact specification.
•	We offer a free consultation service to work out every detail of your course.
Prices for bespoke sessions with our expert trainers start at £525 + VAT.

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Course Outline:

Setting up custom preferences
•	Making decisions for the most important preferences
•	Reducing projects and collecting files

Animation
•	Understanding animation rules
•	Understanding Velocity and Influence
•	Using the Speed graphs to perfect timing
•	Animating to music
•	Making animation rigs

Compositing
•	Adjustment effects and colour correction
•	Smart Mask interpolation
•	Variable mask feathering
•	Keying tools
•	Matte tools
•	Roto Brush
•	Refine Edge tool

Motion tracking and image stabilising
•	Tracking position and rotation
•	Using Mocha to track motion
•	Using Mocha to track mattes
•	Stabilising selections in footage
•	Warp Stabiliser VFX
•	Introduction to Mocha AE
•	3D camera tracking

Time-based effects
•	Slow motion techniques / stop frames
•	Time stretching, ramping and blending
•	Animating footage to audio

Basic expressions and scripting
•	Basic Expression commands
•	Linking properties together
•	Linking and aligning orientation
•	Applying simple arithmetic
•	Randomising properties

Paint
•	Repairing images and movies
•	Stop-frame animation techniques
•	Write-on text effects and other tricks

Intermediate 3D and parenting
•	Setting up stereo camera rigs quickly
•	Animating in 3D space
•	Independent keyframing of x,y,z values
•	Tricks with Lights
•	Tricks with Cameras

Effects
•	Combining effects successfully
•	Favourite effects
•	Green screen techniques
•	Pixel motion blur
•	Working with Proxies
•	Using Shape Layers
•	Extruding text and adding reflections

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Learners will require access to a laptop with an internet connection and access to the relevant software to enrol on this course.

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