Introduction to Adobe After Effects Training Course
This Introduction to Adobe After Effects training course is designed for beginners wanting to learn the fundamentals of motion graphics and animation design. Delivered through live online interactive trainer-led sessions or onsite at your premises.
Professional Adobe Training – Virtual Online or Onsite at your premises
From £325.00 for 1 person online | From £350.00 for 1 person onsite*
*Travel costs may apply for onsite sessions.
Team /Group discounts available /Onsite After Effects Training UK-Wide
Adobe After Effects Courses for Beginners
Our Intro to Adobe After Effects training course gives the skills needed by businesses and individuals to create high quality motion graphics and animations for marketing, video and digital content.
Delivered either as a virtual online After Effects course with a live instructor or onsite at your premises this Adobe course is practical, focused and tailored to your workflow, helping you produce professional results more efficiently.
What do you learn on After Effects Training?
Understand the Workflow and Interface – the various panels, tools, and timelines
Project management – create and organise assets like images, video clips, and audio files
Use AI Capabilities in AE including Content-Aware Fill & Generative Fill, Roto Brush 3.0, Text-to-Video & Image Generation (using Firefly & Runway ML’s Gen-3, Smart Search & AI plug-ins for smart masking and motion design automation
Compositions and layers: -work with core concepts of compositions, different types of layers, including text, shapes, solids, and imported media
- Work with Keyframes, create and refine motion including interpolation, easing and edit with Graph Editor, nimate specifics such as text
Tailored Adobe After Effects Training at all levels
While this course focuses on the fundamentals, training is tailored to your experience and goals. If you already have some knowledge, content can be adapted to help you progress more quickly or explore additional techniques.
Further training is available for users looking to move into intermediate or advanced After Effects workflows.
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Who is this Adobe After Effects Course for?
This introduction to After Effects course is ideal for:
Beginners with little or no experience in Adobe After Effects
Designers, marketers and content creators new to motion graphics
Business users creating in-house video and digital content
Anyone looking to add animation skills to their creative toolkit
Adobe After Effects Course Content
Understand the After Effects workspace, tools and core animation concepts
Create simple motion graphics using shapes, text and layers
Work with keyframes, timelines and basic effects
Build confidence animating graphics for video and digital use
Learn practical workflows that can be applied immediately to real projects
Modern 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.
Live Online & Onsite Adobe Training
This After Effects course is delivered as virtual interactive online training with a live trainer allowing you to learn from the comfort of your own workspace with full interaction and support.
Onsite Adobe Effects training hosted on your premises is also available for businesses or individuals who prefer in-person sessions.
Introduction to Adobe After Effects Training FAQ's
How do online Adobe After Effects Training Courses work?
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.
How does onsite Adobe After Effects Training work?
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.
What do you learn on an Introduction to Adobe After Effects Course?
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.
Who is this Adobe After Effects course for?
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.
Where do you deliver Onsite After Effects Training Courses?
Onsite After Effects Training Courses run across the Midlands including Leicester, Nottingham, Cheltenham, Sheffield.
We cover the whole of the UK including all towns and cities and their surrounding areas including Cambridge, Oxford, Bedford, Luton, Rochdale, Sheffield and all other towns and cites across the country.
How long does the Adobe After Effects Course take?
This is a two day course
How to Book an Adobe After Effects Course with us
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
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Purchase Orders
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Adobe After Effects Training - Introduction - Overviews
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 (Character Animation)
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
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
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)
