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.
Adobe After Effects Introduction Course
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.
Who is the Adobe After Effects training for?
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.
How does the Online After Effects Training Work?
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.
Added Bonus about Online InDesign Training Courses
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.
How does the Onsite After Effects Training work?
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
What will you learn on this Adobe After Effects Course?
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
Which do I need Adobe After Effects or Adobe Premiere Pro?
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.
After Effects Training – the practical’s
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)