After Effects Training Course Lincoln & Lincolnshire

Learn to create, edit and publish short animations and reels on this onsite Adobe After Effects Training Course in Lincoln & Lincolnshire. As with all our video editing training courses this is run either as an onsite After Effects Course hosted on your premises or as online After Effects Training.

Our  Introduction to After Effects course is very hands on and designed to give you the skills to start creating motion graphics virtually from the start of the course. 

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.

 This Onsite After Effects Training is hosted on your premises offering you a number of benefits which are for example:

 

  • 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.

This course is also run as a virtual Online After Effects Course with a live instructor. Throughout the training you will have direct live contact with your instructor via video, audio and sharing screens in real time.

All of our digital design courses are now online as well as onsite. These include Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Premier Pro & Acrobat Training plus our eLearning Courses, Captivate, Articulate & Camtasia.

Online After Effects Training offers great flexibility. These courses are run as virtual sessions on a 24 /7 basis including evenings and weekends running on Zoom, Teams, Google etc. 

 

These are live online training courses providing you with direct visual and audio communication with your trainer. Just as in an Onsite Training Course you can view the trainers screen and share your own with the trainer.

If you have any questions about our Online Adobe Training don’t hesitate to get in touch for a chat. 

Find out more about Online Training

We often get asked which package do we need, 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.

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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 Premier 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.

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

 

What is Kinetic Text? 

Motion typography is one of the effects which will help your video stand out from the crowd and that is kinetic type.

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This After Effects Course is ideal for 121 sessions and closed company courses. We are happy to adjust any content to suit you to create a fully tailored training event.

The After Effects Training Course Lincoln & Lincolnshire 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 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)