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Live Online Adobe After Effects Training Courses

Our live online Adobe After Effects training courses help you create professional motion graphics, animations and visual effects with confidence. Delivered through live interactive, trainer-led sessions our courses focuses on real world workflows and practical skills that be used immediately in the workplace

Professional Adobe Training – Virtual Online or Onsite at your premises

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Professional After Effects Training – Virtual Live Online and Onsite

Our professional Adobe After Effects training helps businesses and individuals create high-quality motion graphics and animations for marketing, video and digital content. Delivered via live online training, or onsite at your premises this Adobe course is practical, focused and tailored to your workflow, helping you produce professional results more efficiently.

What will you learn on After Effects Training?

  • Learn Adobe After Effects skills from introductory through to more advanced techniques, building confidence as you progress through practical, guided exercises

  • Develop professional motion graphics, animation and visual effects skills using workflows tailored to your experience level and goals

  • Work more efficiently with timelines, keyframes, effects and compositions, applying techniques that can be adapted to your own projects and content

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Thank you for all the courses, they have been great and have helped me to understand so much more about Adobe.

Bethan
Marketing

Very informative and easy to follow. It helps so much to watch then do the task yourself. Totally tailored to us which really helped

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Marketing and Comms
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Adobe After Effects Training Courses

After Effects courses run at all levels with set outlines for After Effects Beginners and Intermediate plus tailored options for more specific requirements. 

Get in touch to discuss course content, dates and delivery options, or to book your After Effects training.

Introduction to After Effects
Intermediate After Effects

Book Professional After Effects Training

Whether you’re new to Adobe After Effects or looking to build more advanced motion graphics skills, this professional training course is tailored to your experience and goals. 

Training is delivered live online, with optional onsite sessions available if required.

Get in touch to discuss course content, dates and delivery options, or to book your After Effects training.

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Modern After Effects Workflows & AI-Enhanced Features

As part of your Adobe After Effects training, you’ll be introduced to modern workflows and time-saving features, including AI-assisted tools where appropriate. These techniques help streamline animation, improve consistency and support more efficient motion graphics production, while maintaining creative control.

Adobe After Effects FAQs

You will learn how to create animations, impact intro’s, kinetic type and different types of social media reels such as Explainer videos. 

On this Introduction to After Effects Course the following features are included. This is just a guideline of the content covered on the After Effects Course.

Our full course content can be viewed at the bottom of the screen.

Nothing is cast in stone on the training and we are happy to tailor the course around you.

  • Work with & understand the After Effects environment /Tool Box
  • Create & Edit Compositions
  • Work with Layers including Solids, Nulls, Shape & Text
  • Work with & create Kinetic Type
  • Create & Edit Keyframes
  • Work with Keyframe Assistant /Easy Ease / Easy Ease In /Easy Ease Out
  • Apply Motion Effects such as Slow Mo’
  • Create Animations /Animation Concepts
  • Work with the After Effects Timeline
  • Work with Motion Paths
  • Work with Masks
  • Work with Colour /Lumetri 
  • Audio Panel
 
What is Kinetic Type?

Find out more about Kinetic Type and how central it is to After Effects design. 

Find out more about After Effects Kinetic Type

What is an Explainer Video?

These are short online marketing videos which are used to describe or explain something – for example a service or a specific product. If you take a look here on Explainer Video it will give you an idea of what they are. Once created they usually appear on a prominent part of a company website such as product pages or the home page.

Find out more about After Effects Explainers

We use the latest Adobe After Effects version making sure you’re using the most up to date tools and features.

 

Onsite After Effects Training hosted on your premises offers a number of benefits including:

  • Reduced costs to you as Onsite After Effects Courses are cheaper than held in centre ones
    *Great savings on company groups
  • There is no travelling involved for you or your teams saving travel, hotel and expenses
  • The course is focused specifically on you and your team.
  • Any of our courses can be tailored to your team.
  • From point of booking, pre-course meeting and actual training course you have direct communication with your trainer
  • Dates and times to suit you

Get in touch to find out how we can help

Yes you will. During the training you’ll work with real world projects and for private Adobe Classes we can use your project files if you prefer for the training. 

We run a wide range of CC Courses including the major players such as Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere Pro and Acrobat.

We do three to five day graphic design courses in Adobe Creative Cloud which are ideal for anyone looking to boost their skills for college, uni or work.

We run introduction to Photoshop, InDesign. Express courses etc which can be designed as tailored Adobe Courses. 

 

Additional bonuses of online Adobe Courses

No travelling in the morning, get up have a cup of tea, leisurely breakfast then hit the computer.

And by the way we don’t care if you’re wearing your PJ’s, last nights party hat or no make up – we just jump right on to the training.

Probably the main bonus tho’ is the environmental footprint or rather lack of one. Not travelling means a lack of carbon footprints, which to be honest along with the leisurely breakfast works well.

We do but unfortunately due to privacy reasons we can only record private online courses.

Please get in touch with us via the online booking form at the bottom of this page or:

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We will then get in touch and send the details of booking reservation and find out your timeframe for training.

We will then send across dates.

Once the booking is confirmed we then organise a pre-course call /meeting to discuss the course and any logistics around the day.

Payment

Payment for training is via BACS or Credit Card

Credit Card payment is via Stripe

Purchase Orders

We accept purchase orders from UK registered companies and the public sector.

*Greta Powell Training Ltd does not collect or store your card details.

Onsite After Effects Training

This course is also hosted onsite on your premises at times and dates to suit you.

Our onsite After Effects Training Courses are run UK wide.

This includes the Midlands, Leicester, Nottingham, Birmingham, Derby, Sheffield, Lincoln, the North, Manchester, Blackpool, Liverpool, Leeds & Hull.

After Effects Training Course - Introduction - Overview

After Effects Introduction

Motion Graphics – the basics

After Effects Interface

After Effects Workspace & Menus

Animating Vector Characters

Using the Puppet Tool

Creating Puppet Mesh

Keyframing Puppet Pins

 

After Effects Text

Working with Text

Text Formats

Working with Text Presets

Editing Text Presets

Compositions & Assets

Creating a Composition

Composition Settings

Importing Assets

Importing Footage

Explainer Video

Importing Vector Files (eps /AI Files)

Preparing Vectors for After Effects

Characters & Layers

Puppet Position Tool

Composition v Footage

Loop Out Expression

Animate the Character Body

Animate Facial Expressions

Text Animation

Kinetic Type

Working with Text Layers

Text Animation Presets

Using Text Animators

After Effects & CC

Understanding the role of Illustrator

Understanding the role of Photoshop

Importing Illustrator & Photoshop Files

After Effects Pen Tool

Pen & Pen Properties

Add /Delete /Convert Pen Tools

Mask Feather Tool

Tapered & Dashed Paths

Animate a Dashed Line

Create Custom Mask with Pen

Tapered Strokes

 

Motion Tracking

Understand Motion Tracking

Stabilising Motion

Apply Tracking Data to another layer

After Effects & Layers

What are layers?

Adding & Editing Keyframes to Layers

Working with Motion Paths

Adjusting Layers

Working with Audio

Adding Audio

Audio Presets & Effects

Edit Audio

Removing Background Noise

Rotoscoping in After Effects

Separate Foreground from Background

Animating Rotoscope Mask

Using the Roto Brush Tool

After Effects Layers

Working with a Solid Layer

Working with a Shape Layer

Working with Adjustment Layers

Working with Photoshop Layers

 

After Effects Masks

Add Shape Layer

Vector Shapes in After Effects

Working with Masks

Creating a Mask

Custom shape tools

Working with the Pen Tool

Handles and bezier curves

Mask properties

After Effects Edits in Comps

Adding Keyframes to Layers

Layer Transformations

Layer fx Effects

 

After Effects Timeline

Adding Clips to Timeline

Positioning Clips

Time Ruler & Current Time

The Graph Editor (Value Graph & Speed Graph)