Adobe After Effects Training in Birmingham

Our onsite Adobe After Effects Training in Birmingham and the surrounding areas of Warwickshire and the West Mid’s is hosted on your premises at either your offices or home. It is also available as a virtual online After Effects Training session held with a live trainer for a fully interactive course.

We run short intensive Adobe Training courses which are available either hosted onsite at your premises or as online Adobe After Effects Training sessions.

Our online After Effects Courses are run with a live instructor and are available at weekends and overnight.

This course is ideal for individuals, company groups or larger team roll-outs at times and dates to suit you.

This course introduces you to the fundamentals of After Effects and shows you how to work with the interface, timeline and tools. You will learn how to make animations with text and objects and control those elements using keyframes and effects. This is very much a hands on course where you will be creating and designing your own animations virtually from the beginning.

This Introduction to Adobe After Training is designed for individual sessions or company groups and available both onsite your premises or as virtual live online After Effects Training sessions. Both onsite & online courses are held at times and dates to suit you. 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. Animation is used in just about every video medium you can think of and this course will give you the skills to produce high impact animations to be used in Premiere Pro videos, social media posts and blogs to name but a few.

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.

Our Online InDesign Courses are available on any time zone so we can offer 24 hour availability and over the weekend. 

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. 

An added bonus of our online courses is there’s no travel involved meaning less stress on the planet so environmentally it makes great sense.

No fighting traffic or public transport just get up, have tea /coffee, something to eat, leisurely turn on the computer and we’ll be there ready to deliver your course.

Online InDesign Training is also available in short bite-size sessions (2 hours /4 hours /half days) or if preferred courses can be split into two sessions over different days. We also offer weekend and night time courses for clients outside the UK time zone.

So please get in touch to discuss our ‘out of hours’ training courses.

 

Find out more about the Online InDesign Training

There are a number of benefits to onsite courses but the main ones are: 

The training is focused entirely on you and your company requirements

No traveling involved for you or your team saving travel & expenses

The approach is focused specifically on you and your specific needs this is not a generic one size fits all course. 

Prior to the training we organise an online meeting where you will meet your trainer and discuss your aims, content preferences and levels of delegate /s knowledge

Find out more about our Onsite After Effects Courses

On this Introduction to After Effects Course you will cover some of the following features. Below is a guideline of what we cover in the After Effects Course the 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.

 

  • Create New & Edit Compositions
  • Work with Solids, Null, Shape & Text Layers
  • Work with & Animate Text Layers
  • Work with Kinetic Text*
  • Create an Explainer Animation (Character Movement)
  • After Effects Timeline
  • After Effects Keyframes
  • After Effects Timing
  • Animation Concepts
  • Motion Paths
  • Effects & Presets
  • Audio Panel
  • Lumetri Scopes & Colour

Sometimes people are unsure which software is best for them, After Effects or Premier Pro?

Please don’t hesitate to give us a call to discuss this or take a quick look at our Adobe Video Editing Training post which may help you decide which of or even both of these packages you may need.

Find out a little more about video editing courses

 

What else is involved in your After Effects Courses?

This Beginners After Effects Course is very much hands on and designed to give you the skills needed to create motion graphics virtually from the beginning of the course.

 

As with all our video editing training courses this Introduction to After Effects course is run for anyone looking for a more private approach to their training. Our courses are private and organised for 121 sessions, closed company courses or larger roll outs. 

 

Course Notes & Certificate

After the course we will provide you with After Effects course notes and you will get an e-certificate of course completion.

 

After Effects Online Meeting Chat Prior to the Training

We usually organise an online meeting prior to the training course to discuss content and any logistics. It’s great to make sure everyone knows how the day will work out and be clear about the content.

 

How long does the course take?

It takes between one and two days depending on the amount of people sitting on the training. For one person one day usually suffices but for small groups of between 4 and 6 people two days is more realistic

 

After Effects Post Course Support

We actually offer full life time support for this training. If you run into any problems after the course please get in touch. We can usually sort out any issues by email but should that fail then we will record a video demonstrating the solution or organise a chat with your trainer.

 

A personal note to you about our Adobe After Effects Training in Birmingham

Our flexibility towards course content for your training is second to none and our video editing training courses run across the UK and Midlands so please get in touch to discuss your thoughts. Our Birmingham After Effects courses can be held inside Birmingham city itself or run in Wolverhampton, Coventry, Walsall the whole West Midlands region.

Adobe After Effects Training in Birmingham - Overview

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)