Adobe After Effects – Basics («AFT»)

• After Effects Basics
• Getting to know the user interface, tools and control panels
• Program and project settings
• Creating and Setting Up Compositions
• Import and manage footage
• Import Photoshop and Illustrator files
• Basics of animation with keyframes and diagrams
• Setting up the preview
• Working in the Timeline and Composition Window
• Use, adjust and combine effects
• Preserve masks, motion masks and transparency
• Keying and Rotoscoping
• Animate text and shape layers
• Creating Motion Grapic Templates with Essential Graphics
• Working in 3D space with camera and light sources
• Motion tracking and stabilization
• 3D camera tracking
• Export with the Render List and Adobe Media Encoder

Component of the following courses

• Adobe Video and Audio Basics («PRAEAU»)

Informative, exemplary and practice-orientated teaching sequence

This basic course is aimed at anyone who wants to develop their skills in After Effects. Creative professionals, career changers, junior editors, video editors and video journalists, ambitious amateurs, as well as aspiring graphic artists, designers and motion graphics artists are all in the right place.

You have good computer skills (PC or Mac) and basic knowledge of Photoshop, Premiere Pro or Illustrator, for example, to create assets for After Effects animations. Previous knowledge of After Effects is not required.

Info about the room equipment

Our courses take place on Windows or Apple devices. On request, we will be happy to provide you with an Apple computer in Zurich, Bern and Basel. Please let us know in advance by sending an e-mail to info@digicomp.ch. You can also bring your own laptop.

For virtual participation, we recommend the use of an additional monitor (not just a laptop) so that you can fully follow and participate in the lesson.

Adobe CC Software

The Adobe Creative Cloud software will be made available to you during the course times, whether on site in our course rooms or via remote access for virtual participation.