Advanced Adobe After Effects CS6 Training

Goals

• Learn about grouping layers to make them easier to coordinate.
• Learn to use expressions.
• Learn to add a new dimension to your animations.
• Learn essential skills for creating special effects.
• Explore paint, roto brush, and puppet tools.
• Learn about creating, animating, and extruding vector-based shapes.

Outline

1. Parenting and Nesting
   1. Parenting, Nesting, and Expressions Defined
   2. Assigning a Parent
   3. Parenting, Opacity, and Effects
   4. Parenting with Null Objects
   5. Nesting to Group Layers; Using guides
   6. Editing Precomps
   7. Navigating Composition Hierarchies
   8. Nesting a Common Source
   9. Sizing Precomps
   10. ETLAT (Edit This, Look At That)
   11. Precomposing a Group of Layers
   12. Precomposing a Single Layer
   13. Render Order Explained
   14. Splitting Work between Comps
   15. Precompose Options Compared
   16. Using Precomposing to Reorder
   17. Continuous Rasterization
   18. Collapsing Transformations
   19. Compound Effects
2. Expressions and Time Games
   1. Using the Pick Whip to Create Expressions
   2. Altering Expressions
   3. Stabilizing Shadows
   4. Matching Value Ranges (The Linear Expression)
   5. Looping Keyframes
   6. Expression Tips
   7. The Wiggle Expression
   8. Expression Controllers
   9. Keyframing the Wiggle Expression
   10. Creating a Master Controller with a Null Object
   11. Converting Sound to Keyframes
   12. Frame Blending
   13. Pixel Motion
   14. Stop Motion Tricks
   15. Preserve Frame Rate
   16. Creating Key Frames
   17. Time Remapping
3. 3D Space
   1. Enabling Layers for 3D
   2. Moving and Rotating Layers in 3D Space
   3. Multiplaning Effects
   4. 3D Motion Paths
   5. Multiple Views
   6. Adding a Camera; Camera Settings
   7. Using the Camera Tools; 3D Views
   8. Moving and Animating Cameras
   9. Building a Camera Rig
   10. Layer and Camera Auto-orientation
   11. Camera Depth of Field Blur
   12. 3D Lights
   13. Casting Shadows
   14. Light Falloff; Material Options
   15. Ray-traced 3D Renderer (New in CS6)
   16. Extrusion and Beveling
   17. Bending Footage Layers
   18. Transparency; Index of Refraction
   19. Reflections
   20. Environment Layers
   21. Ray-tracer Image Quality
   22. Fast Previews
4. Track and Key
   1. Tracking Overview
   2. Warp Stabilizer
   3. Point-based Tracking and Stabilization
   4. Creating Track Points
   5. Applying Stabilization
   6. Fixing Bad Tracks
   7. 2D Motion Tracking
   8. Applying a Motion Track
   9. Tracking Interlaced Footage
   10. Radio Waves Effect
   11. Applying Tracks to Effect Points
   12. Planar Tracking with Mocha AE
   13. Pasting the Mocha Track into After Effects
   14. Bezier Warp Effect
   15. 3D Camera Tracker (New in CS6)
   16. Defining the Plane; Moving the Target
   17. Creating a Track Null; Parenting
   18. Adding 3D Text and a Shadow Catcher
   19. Stabilizing Position, Rotation, and Scale
   20. Keying Using the Keylight Effect
   21. Creating Garbage mattes
   22. Rolling Shutter Repair (New in CS6)
5. Paint, Roto, and Puppet
   1. Basic Painting
   2. Erasing Strokes
   3. Paint Channels
   4. Paint Blending Modes
   5. Brush Duration Bar
   6. Animating Strokes
   7. Revealing a Layer
   8. Creating Organics Textures
   9. Tablet Settings
   10. Cloning
   11. Transforming Strokes
   12. Basic Roto Brush
   13. Roto Brush Workflow; The Base Frame
   14. Propagating Strokes
   15. Corrective Strokes
   16. Refining the Matte
   17. Puppet Pin Tool
   18. Animating Puppet Pins
   19. Puppet Overlap Tool
   20. Recoding Puppet Animation
   21. Puppet Starch Tool
   22. Multiple Shapes
6. Shape Layers
   1. Creating a Shape Layer
   2. Stroke and Fill Settings, Editing Shapes
   3. Multiple Shapes
   4. Even-Odd Fill
   5. Shape Effects
   6. Creating Buttons
   7. Shape Repeater
   8. Compound Shapes; Merge Paths
   9. Gradients
   10. Shape Pen Paths
   11. Wiggle Tranforms
   12. Advanced Strokes
   13. Dashes and Gaps
   14. Animating a Stroke
   15. Create Shapes from Vector Layers (New in CS6)
   16. Extruding Shape Layers (New in CS6)

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