Class Description
Navin was great all around. I was impressed by his organizational skills. He is articulate spoke clearly easy to understand and follow. I appreciated the extra insights tips and tidbits he offered. His answers were grounded in his own personal experience. Overall, an enjoyable and valuable experience, would definitely recommend this class with this instructor to others.
who should take this class?
Video, animation and graphics professionals who want to learn intermediate and advanced techniques in Adobe After Effects CC.
what we cover—in detail
(always customized for the students attending)
- Using the Rotobrush Tool
- About rotoscoping
- Getting started
- Creating a segmentation boundary
- Fine-tuning the matte
- Freezing your Roto Brush tool results
- Changing the background
- Adding animated text
- Outputting your project
- Performing Color Correction
- Adjusting color balance
- Replacing the background
- Correcting a range of colors
- Warming colors with the Photo Filter effect
- Motion tracking
- Color grading
- Using the 3D features
- Creating 3D text
- Using 3D views
- Adding 3D lights
- Adding a camera
- Adding a text layer
- Repositioning layers
- Working with Cinema 4D Lite
- Working with the 3D Camera Tracker
- Repairing rolling shutter distortions
- Tracking the footage
- Creating a ground plane, a camera, and text
- Creating realistic shadows
- Adding ambient light
- Creating additional text
- Locking a layer to a plane
- Animating text
- Adjusting camera's depth of field
- Rendering the composition
- Advanced Editing Techniques
- Using Warp Stabilizer VFX
- Bicubic scaling
- Single point motion tracking
- Checking for drift
- Multipoint tracking
- Using mocha for After Effects
- Creating a particle simulation
- Particle systems
- High dynamic range (HDR) footage
- Rendering and Output
- About compression
- Creating templates for the render queue
- Exporting
- Preparing movies for mobile devices
- Using Adobe Media Encoder
- Preparing a movie for broadcast output