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