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Adobe After Effects CS3 Training Course
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Learn Adobe After Effects CS3 (in only 7 hours)
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Course Description: Adobe® After Effects® is the essential tool for creating motion graphics and visual effects for film, video, DVD, and the Web. After Effects provides the speed, precision, and power to be visually innovative, yet still meet production challenges, with the utmost quality. Whether you want to color correct footage, add special effects or even generate exciting motion graphics, After Effects can do it all. In this VTC course, Dwayne Ferguson, a professional animator and television art director, will show users step by step, how to get the most out of this powerful application. Users will learn the interface, cameras and lighting, animation and more. Two exciting projects at the end of the course will help reinforce skills. Work Files are included. To begin learning Adobe After Effects CS3, simply click on one of the lessons.
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Video Tutorials Included: 122
Free Video
Video Time
(minutes)
Interface
The Workspace
(4.07)
Project Settings
(3.25)
Panels
(2.97)
Custom Workspaces
(2.57)
Previews
(2.98)
Safe Zones
(1.77)
Folders
(2.88)
Templates
(2.33)
He|p
(3.65)
Compositions
Understanding Comps 3.07
Composition Panel 3.95
Precomps 3.62
Layers 3.28
Align and Distribute 3.72
Adjustment Layers 4.02
Alpha Channels 2.67
Planning Scenes 4.02
Parent and Nest
Parent Objects 3.6
Null Objects 3.03
Nesting 3.05
Render Order 2.12
Animation
The Timeline 4.17
Keyframes and Timecode 3.22
Animating Properties pt. 1 3.13
Animating Properties pt. 2 3.53
Anchor Point 2.87
Presets 3.02
Behaviors 2.33
Animation Concepts pt. 1 3.8
Animation Concepts pt. 2 3.55
Motion Paths 3.15
Work with Text
Work with Text pt. 1 4.15
Work with Text pt. 2 3.83
Text Animation 3.37
Presets 2.17
Special Effects
Solids 2.63
Glows 4.08
Blurs 2.78
Brainstorm 2.57
Search Feature 2.98
Color Correction 4.3
Distortion 4.2
Dynamics 3.62
Render and Output
Render Settings 3.07
Output Options 4.87
Keying and Tracking
Track Points 3.93
Motion Tracking 3.97
Stabilization 5.78
Garbage Mattes 1.85
Painting and Masks
Paint Tools 3.33
Vector Painting 4.53
Onion Skinning 4.2
Erasing 3.45
Blend Modes 2.28
Feathering 2.55
Opacity 2.55
Shapes pt. 1 3.57
Shapes pt. 2 2.55
Cloning 3.33
Work with Audio
Sound Formats 2.52
Import Audio 1.88
Place Audio 2.73
Markers 2.95
Puppet Tool
Puppet Tool 2.75
Pins 3.82
Overlap 3.72
Live Recording 3.13
Edit Video
Edit Footage 2.47
Looping Footage 2.88
Time Stretch 2.27
Slip Editing 2.8
Sequence Layers 3.12
3D Space
X Y and Z 2.9
Moving in 3D 3.17
Lights 4.4
Shadows 3.18
Cameras 4.1
3D Text 3.2
Work with CS 3 Applications
Work with Photoshop pt. 1 3.03
Work with Photoshop pt. 2 3.67
Illustrator Files 2.85
Work with Premiere Pro pt. 1 2.98
Work with Premiere Pro pt. 2 2.8
Work with Flash 2.78
Saving and Exporting
Saving Files 4.23
Exporting 5.32
Advanced Animation
He|pers 2.78
Graph Editor 4.05
Wiggler 3.97
Smoother 2.15
Easing 3.15
Expressions 3.73
Auto-Orient 2.57
Motion Sketching 3.08
Project: City Life Bumper
Project Overview 1.98
Bumper Boards 3.35
Bumper Description 2.8
Importing Files 2.02
City Life pt. 1 5.05
City Life pt. 2 5.88
City Life pt. 3 5.28
City Life pt. 4 4.75
City Life pt. 5 4
City Life pt. 6 3.07
City Life pt. 7 2.03
City Life pt. 8 3.6
Project: Nessie Puppet
Project Overview 1.07
Importing 4.13
Bubbles 2.57
Nessie Puppet 4.18
Arranging the Comp 2.9
Plants 5.15
Rendering 2.45
Resources
Magazines 3.1
Websites 3.72
Wrap Up
Review 2.55