Adobe After Effects Advanced Training

UNIT 1: CAMERA WORK FLOWS
· After Effects Cameras: Not your Daddy’s DSLR
· Creating Cameras and setting Camera properties
· Camera cuts, rack focus, and other classic Camera moves
· Animating Cameras on a path
· Creating Flythroughs
· Managing Cameras, Lights, and shadow
· The power of Camera rigging
· Camera power linking

UNIT 2: ADVANCED COMPOSITING TECHNIQUES
· Understanding A Over B
· Blend Modes and Mask Modes
· Pre-Rendering and other techniques
· Render Order and Priorities
· Optimizing Projects: Global vs Persistent Cache
· Edges on Camera and the Real World

UNIT 3: KEYING TECHNIQUES
· Understanding blue and green screen chroma keys
· Tips for shooting green screen footage
· Using the Keylight effect
· Procedural mattes for the lazy
· Hi-con mattes
· Key Cleaner for poorly-lit footage
· Linear Keying effects
· Third Party Keying Suites

UNIT 4: STABILIZATION AND TRACKING
· About stabilization and tracking
· Using the Warp Stabilizer VFX feature
· Single-point and multi-point motion tracking
· Motion tracking with Mocha planar data
· Other tracking techniques
· 3D Camera tracking
· Shadow catchers
· Null objects

UNIT 5: THE ART OF ROTOSCOPING
· About rotoscoping
· Classic rotoscoping workflows
· Using the Roto Brush Tool
· Creating and refining Roto Brush segmentation boundaries
· Using the Refine Edge Tool
· Freezing and unfreezing Roto Brush data
· Articulated Mattes
· Refining Mattes: Feather, Track
· The legacy Paint Tools: painting, cloning, and erasing
· Roto like a Jedi: Hot core energy effects

UNIT 6: PARTICLE EFFECTS
· About particle simulation
· After Effects' particle generators
· The Particle Playground effect
· The CC Particle Systems II effect
· Customizing particle properties
· Additional particle effects and techniques
· Popular third-party particle effects

UNIT 7: COLOR CORRECTION AND COLOR GRADING
· Enterprise-based color workflows
· Histograms and Channels: Using the Lumetri scopes
· Using the Lumetri Color Effect and the Lumetri Color panel
· Adjusting levels and exposure
· Adjusting color balance and saturation
· Legalizing Luma/Color for Broadcast
· Additional color correction options
· Cinematic color grading

UNIT 8: BONUS TRACK - PUPPET TOOLS DISTORTIONS
· About the Puppet Tools
· Adding Deform pins
· Animating pin positions
· Stiffening with the Starch Tool
· Recording deformations
· Acting it out with Adobe Character Animator

UNIT 9: BONUS TRACK - ADVANCED COLOR OPTIONS
· Understanding HDR (High Dynamic Range)
· Linear HDR Compositing: Lifelike
· Linear LDR Compositing
· Color Management and LUTs