After Effects Training Course Lincoln & Lincolnshire

Learn to create and edit short animations, marketing reels and web footage on one of our Adobe After Effects Training Courses.

Onsite Adobe After Effects Course

Onsite After Effects Training is held across Lincoln & Lincolnshire. We travel across the whole Linc’s region including Grantham, Boston, Grimsby, Scunthorpe, Hull and surrounding areas.

Online Adobe After Effects Training

Virtual online Adobe Courses are hosted by a live trainer who you are in constant contact with throughout the course via video, screen share and live chat.

Introduction to Adobe After Effects Course

This Introduction to Adobe After Effects course is ideal for anyone intending to create motion graphics. During the course you’ll work with the tools, features and techniques needed to create simple animations, explainer video’s for marketing & sales, edit existing footage and design high impact professional footage for web, social and broadcast output.

Why learn Adobe After Effects?

  • To design and create stunning motion graphics and VFX (video effects) for social, movies, marketing and online content
  • After Effects brings animation, type effects and transitions to static designs
  • Effects combines video, imagery, 3D to give impact to visual stories
  • Eye catching animations for marketing on social media channels
  • Design , intros, short explainer videos for sales & marketing plus motion
  • It works perfectly with Adobe apps including Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator

What is the difference between VFX and Motion Graphics?

There are two types of animation in the software known as VFX and Motion Graphics but lots of people group the two together.

VFX – (visual effects) create scenes and characters that are impossible to visualise in real life but are stunningly realist.

Motion Graphics – think animated graphics such as logo’s and text brought to life by adding motion in After Effects.

Adobe After Effects Training FAQ

Our Online After Effects Courses are available on any time zone so we can offer 24 hour availability and weekend dates. 

We run our online training sessions via the most popular video conferencing software including Zoom, Teams, Google and WebEx, its your choice which use.

You will have direct contact with the InDesign Trainer throughout the duration of the course via video and audio link in real time and be in contact visually and audibly throughout the whole time. 

We are happy to record your training session for you to refer back to after the training. 

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 the more traditional ones 
  • There is no travelling involved for you or your teams saving travel, hotel and expenses
  • The course is focused specifically on your and your team.
  • Any of our courses can be tailored to your team.
  • From point of booking direct communication with your trainer
  • Dates and times to suit you

 

Please get in touch with us to discuss availability in your area.

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. They’re most commonly used for advertising 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

The course is perfect for anyone looking to get a firm grip on motion graphic design for both career progression and personal use. It is currently used by designers, marketing, web designers, social media content creators and virtually anyone creating high impact animations and reels.

This Adobe After Effects Introduction Course will show you the tools, features and techniques used in the software to create high impact animations. You will learn to work with both sound and visual tools to bring a professional and creative look to your animations and movies.

Onsite After Effects Training Courses runs across Lincolnshire and the UK. Courses are hosted onsite at your premises at times and dates to suit you.

We cover the whole of the UK including all towns and cities and their surrounding areas. Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, Sheffield, Lincoln, the North, Manchester, Blackpool, Liverpool, Leeds & Hull. 

Please contact us for availability in your area.

This is a two day course

Booking with us

Please get in touch with us via the online booking form.

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

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

Purchase Orders

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

Adobe Creative Cloud and After Effects

One of Adobe’s coolest features is its cross app functionality and After Effects works brilliantly across Creative Cloud. This video was conceived in Adobe Firefly, edited in Adobe After Effects with a little AI sprinkled on the mix and voila a pink animated tree in a matter of minutes.

Onsite After Effects Training

We specialise in hosting Onsite After Effects Training Courses on your premises at times and dates to suit you. Our flexibility is second to none and our video editing training courses are run across the UK and Midlands. Our Lincolnshire After Effects courses are held across the county including Boston, Skegness, Grantham, Spalding and Caister.

Our training courses are run for individuals, company courses, large roll-outs looking for privately run After Effects tuition.

After Effects Training Course Lincoln & Lincolnshire - Overviews

Meeting After Effects

Motion Graphics – the basics

After Effects Interface

After Effects Workspace & Menus

After Effects & 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 Videos Character Animation Continued

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

Using the CC Libraries

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 & Layer Types

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

Creating a Mask

Custom shape tools

Working with the Pen Tool

Handles and bezier curves

Mask properties

Exporting from After Effects

Exporting Animations

Render Video

Export to Different Formats (MP4, H264, Mov etc)

After Effects Keyframes & Effects

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)