After Effects ACP
This course will enhance your digital skills in the competitive job market.
Course overview
The Adobe After Effects ACP course is for creatives who want to have a foundation in this industry-standard motion graphics and visual effects software. Whether you want to create cinematic movie titles, intros, transitions or animate a logo or character you can do it with Adobe After Effects. From starting on-screen fires to making it rain, you can take any idea and make it move!
We will deliver this course via Microsoft Teams which you can install for free. We can provide the Adobe licence for the duration of the course and the ACP exam will be delivered online.
What you'll learn
Learn to create impressive motion graphics using Adobe After Effects which can be used in film, social media and marketing. After Effects is the industry-standard tool for video compositing, motion graphics design and animation.
With After Effects motion tracking tools, you can stabilise your footage, apply effects to moving objects, or insert new elements into a scene that follows the camera. On successful completion of the ACP After Effects exam you will attain Adobe Certified Professional status using After Effects.
- What is After Effects?
- Looking at the Interface
- Creating projects and saving
- File management
- Creating compositions
- Working with shapes and shape layers
- Transformations and animating on the timeline
- Aligning objects
- Importing Video and assets
- Using Illustrator files
- Text tools
- Animating text
- Lighting
- 3D
- Masks
- Pen tool
- Parenting objects
- Further Effects & Adjustment layers
- Pre-composition
- Blending modes
- Further Animation
- Easy Ease & Animation Assistant
- Animation Graphs
- Rotoscoping
- Track matts
- Effects: Warp Stabilise and Keying
- Colour correcting
- Null objects
- Using Markers
- Cameras
- Guides and title safe guides
- Audio - radio waves
- remapping time- warp
- Using Render Queue
- Render with Adobe Media Encoder Queue
- Integration of premiere pro
You will have access to online learning resources and prep exams to prepare for your Adobe exam.
Adobe Certified Professional Credential
At the end of the course you'll be able to take the Adobe Certified Professional (ACP) online exam. You'll receive ACP status on successful completion of the exam and will also receive a digital badge and certificate. The badge can be attached to your LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook profile as well as put on your email signature.
*The ACP qualification last three years
Susannah Travis - Course Lead
Susannah is the Digital Skills Team Lead and delivers a range of courses. She has over a decade of experience delivering Adobe and Microsoft courses on an individual and tailored group basis. Her aim is to enable students to achieve a high level of digital literacy to help their work and everyday lives.
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