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After Effects CS6 Essential Training
John Hersey

After Effects CS6 Essential Training

with Ian Robinson

 


In this course, author Ian Robinson introduces Adobe After Effects CS6 and the world of animation, effects, and compositing. Chapter 1 introduces the six foundations of After Effects, which include concepts like layers, keyframes, rendering, and moving in 3D space. The rest of the course expands on these ideas, and shows how to build compositions with layers, perform rotoscoping, animate your composition with keyframes, add effects and transitions, and render and export the finished piece. Two real-world example projects demonstrate keying green screen footage and creating an advanced 3D composition with the expanded 3D toolset, an important addition to CS6.
Topics include:
  • Setting up the workspace, important preferences, and the cache
  • Importing footage and comps
  • Relinking missing footage
  • Creating type, shape layers, and masks
  • Rotoscoping with the Roto Brush
  • Adjusting keyframes in the Graph Editor
  • Timing animations to audio
  • Building backgrounds with effects
  • Rendering with the Render Queue and Adobe Media Encoder
  • Animating 3D type
  • Smoothing shaky footage and retouching footage
  • Keying green screen footage
  • Working with 3D: extruding shapes, adding ray-traced lighting, and more

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author
Ian Robinson
subject
Video
software
After Effects CS6
level
Beginner
duration
8h 41m
released
May 07, 2012

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Ian Robinson

Ian Robinson

Ian Robinson is a motion graphics designer, instructor, photographer, and co-owner of SoftBox Media LLC. He has worked with Discovery Communications, National Geographic International, and various production and post-production facilities. Though he specializes in broadcast, Ian is truly a format agnostic, with an extensive portfolio covering print, HD, DVD, and podcasting. He uses whichever medium most effectively delivers the message his client wants to convey. Teaching is also an important aspect of Ian's work, and he believes that one has only truly learned one's craft after teaching it.
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After Effects: Principles of Motion Graphics Intermediate 7h 57m 02/2011  {8}
Motion: Principles of Motion Graphics Intermediate 3h 43m 02/2011  {8}
Motion 5 Essential Training Beginner 8h 40m 08/2011  {8}
Artistic Video with Photoshop Intermediate 3h 10m 06/2012  {8}
After Effects CS6 Essential Training Beginner 8h 41m 05/2012  {8}
Mograph Techniques: Retiming and Tracking Footage Intermediate 2h 46m 06/2013  {8}
Mograph Techniques: Animating to Music Intermediate 1h 5m 06/2013  {8}
After Effects CC Essential Training Beginner 11h 2m 06/2013  {8}

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