Motion Graphics

This course is a great start for students who are new to Adobe Premiere Pro or transitioning from different editing packages . We adopt a simple production-based training methodology and our students gain valuable inside knowledge from our years of hands-on experience in video production.

INTRODUCTION TO AFTER EFFECTS WORKFLOW
• Creating a project and importing footage
• Creating a composition and arranging layers
• Adding effects and modifying layer properties
• Animating the composition
• Previewing your work
• Optimizing performance in After Effects
• Rendering and exporting your composition
• Customizing the workspace
• Controlling the brightness of the user interface

CREATING A BASIC ANIMATION USING EFFECTS AND PRESETS
• Getting Started
• Importing footage using Adobe Bridge
• Creating the composition
• Working with imported Illustrator layers
• Applying effects to a layer
• Applying an animation preset
• Previewing the effects
• Adding transparency
• Rendering the composition

ANIMATING TEXT
• Getting Started
• About text layers
• Creating and formatting point text
• Using a text animation preset
• Animating with scale key frames
• Animating using parenting
• Animating imported Photoshop text
• Animating text using a path animation preset
• Animating type tracking
• Animating text opacity
• Adding motion blur

WORKING WITH SHAPE LAYERS
• Getting Started
• Adding a shape layer
• Creating custom shapes
• Creating stars
• Incorporating video and audio layers
• Applying a Cartoon effect
• Addling a title bar
• Using Brainstorm to experiment

WORKING WITH MASKS
• About masks
• Getting Started
• Creating a mask with the Pen tool
• Editing a mask
• Feathering the edges of a mask
• Replacing the content of the mask
• Adding a reflection
• Creating a vignette
• Adjusting the color

PERFORMING COLOR CORRECTION
• Getting started
• Adjusting color balance
• Replacing the chroma background
• Removing unwanted elements
• Correcting a range of colors
• Warming colors with the Photo Filter Effect

USING 3D EFFECTS
• Getting Started
• Using 3D lights
• Turning on shadows
• Adding a camera
• Adding an animated sphere
• Adding the logo
• Working with Null

ADVANCED EDITING TECHNIQUES AND EFFECTS
• Getting started
• Using motion stabilization
• Using single-point motion tracking
• Using multipoint tracking
• Creating a particle system
• Creating Time warp

RENDERING AND OUTPUTTING
• Getting Started
• Creating templates for the rendering process
• Creating templates for output modules
• Exporting to different output media
• Color Management

Final project assessment and examination