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MISC 170 - Introduction to After Effect & InDesign
Code | Start Date | Duration | Venue | |
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MISC 170 | 21 October 2024 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
MISC 170 | 25 November 2024 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
MISC 170 | 30 December 2024 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
Course Description
Adobe After Effects is a software application for creating motion graphics and special effects used in video, online content and presentations. After Effects is used widely in TV and film post-production, the creation of special effects, and animation.
While InDesign is a desktop publishing application that can be used to create posters, flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers and books.
This course serves as an intorduction to both applications.
Course Objectives
- Understanding digital video basics
- Working with keyframes and motion paths
- Working with and animating text
- Working with 3D effects
- Rendering and exporting projects
- Exploring InDesign workspace and tools
- Building documents with Master Pages
- Working with text, type and styles
- Working with graphics and colors
Who Should Attend?
- Graphic Designers
- Media professionals
Course Details/Schedule
Day 1
Adobe After Effects
- Digital video basics
- Analog versus digital
- Frame rate and resolution
- After Effects user interface
- Creating a project
- Using the Composition window
- Using the Timeline window
- Ram Preview vs. Standard preview
- Media management
- Previewing footage
- Previewing stills, video, and audio
- Using the interpret footage dialog box
- Looping an audio or video file
Day 2
- Getting to know layers and their options
- Using time stretch and frame blending
- Nesting compositions/layers using
- Using precomps Lesson
- Keyframes
- Animating layer properties
- Motion paths
- Working with layer blending
- Adding text to your project
- Animating text
- Using Bridge with After Effects
- Using Masks and alpha channels
- Track matte
- Effect basics
- Animating effects
Day 3
- 3D in After Effects
- Creating 3D layers
- Using multiple viewports
- Animating 3D layers
- Creating and using lights
- Rendering and exporting
- The render queue
- Adjusting render settings
- Duplicating jobs in the render queue
- Exporting a project file
- Rendering an individual frame
Day 4
Adobe InDesign
- Working with InDesign tools and panels
- Working with the Control panel
- Master pages
- Creating a custom-sized document
- Formatting master pages
- Adding images & text to master pages
- Text and type
- Changing character and paragraph attributes
- Using the Glyphs panel
- Creating Glyph sets
- Styles
- Updating and loading styles from another document
- Creating and applying object styles
- How InDesign handles graphics
- Creating a graphic frame
- Adding graphics
- Repositioning graphics
- Importing layered Photoshop files
Day 5
- Creating a table
- Editing table options
- Using cells
- Using graphics in cells
- Using color
- Applying Live Corner Effects
- Applying strokes to text
- Creating a tint reduction
- Working with gradients
- Pre-flight, printing and pdfs
- Actual vs. effective resolution
- Preflight checks
- Creating a PDF
- Additional features