This is a public service announcement:
Listen to the OnDemand training from Adobe and Register for upcoming eSeminars, including the one on October 4.
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Free Fall Video Seminars from Adobe
Sign up today for some free video seminars from Adobe! Here is a sampling of the classes:
- Creating Animations with After Effects and output to Flash
- After Effects 101 part 2: Creating motion backgrounds and elements
- Capture the best footage possible from your video camera and save editing time with OnLocation and Premiere Pro
- Working with Photoshop Extended to use with Premiere Pro and After Effects
- Create DVD motion menus that wow your audience using Adobe After Effects CS
There are a few more on the list as well. Classes start September 27 and go through late November.
Harry’s Expression Training is now Available!
Expressions Demystified… Written for the Designer
Harry J. Frank, freelance motion graphics artist, instructor and Adobe Certified Expert, goes over the basics of Expressions – Expressions for the average designer. Harry teaches you the terminology and the tricks and even explains a bit of basic trigonometry (but don’t worry, it won’t bring back repressed high school math class memories!) Before you know it you will be adding Expressions everywhere. This training will add value to your technique and expand your After Effects skillset.
All project files are included, along with a Quick Reference Guide to help you learn Expressions in the most efficient way possible. You’re not going to get this kind of quality training anywhere else and this series is ONLY available at Toolfarm.
Want the training modules individually or in a bundle?
This 3 part series on After Effects Expressions is available lesson by lesson. The bundle of the three lessons is available at a discount.
- After Effects Expressions 01: Introduction to Expressions Duration: 20 Minutes
- After Effects Expressions 02: Introduction to Arrays and Variables Duration: 20 Minutes
- After Effects Expressions 03: 3D Text Duration: 20 Minutes
- After Effects Expression Series 1 Bundle Duration: 60 Minutes
Harry has been a Toolfarm Forum Expert from about the time the Forums went up and runs Gray Machine, a very popular motion graphics site with tutorials and samples of work. Harry is also half of the relaunched AE Freemart.
New Training from John Dickinson! Lesson 6: Rose Window
Yes, this is the AE Freemart, but this training is almost free at just five bucks. This is the sixth in the Toolfarm Expert Training Series: Creative Background Design with After Effects: Rose Window and it is gorgeous! John Dickinson walks you through a variety of Persian-style designs using Fractal Noise, Colorama, CC Kaleida and several other plug-ins. Simply beautiful.
Whether you’re new with After Effects or have been using it since AE 3, you will learn some cool tricks and expand you’re repertoire of quick effects.
Get some killer training for only a Lincoln! Get Lesson 6: Rose Window Now!.
Take After Effects Training with Harry Frank!
This was in my inbox today from a Michigan based film and video list that I subscribe to. Harry, is of course, the other half of the AE Freemart. Come to a 3-day INTENSIVE workshop, February 19-21 (9a-5p).
You asked for it — you got it! After Effects is the industry standard for motion graphics and visual effects.
- Certified Instructors
- Small Class Size
- Individual Mac G5
- Certificate Upon Completion
Media Power’s 3-day course will guide you through the basic and
intermediate operations of After Effects Pro — live and in person for
three tightly-packed all-day sessions.
Each participant works at their own Mac G5 with a maximum class size of nine. This is what you’ve been waiting for — get to know After Effects and learn to produce extraordinary effects with a minimum of time and effort. Scroll down for details!
Your instructor: Harry J. Frank (That’s the guy who’s photo is on the right side of this page, by the way).
Harry is an Adobe Certified Expert in After Effects, and also works as a freelance designer. His work can be seen every day on NBC, Fox Sports, Spike, ESPN and also in the corporate video industry for clients such as General Motors, Daimler-Chrysler and Delphi. Harry is the author of many tutorials and presets, and is currently working on a training series on Expression Scripting in After Effects. Look for some great tips, tutorials and design samples at his website, www.graymachine.com.
After Effects Interface in Depth
Creating a Project
Using the Project Window
• Importing Elements – Methods
• Organizing Footage
• Properties of Media
Composition
• Adding layers
• Multiple Compositions
• Resolution
• Navigating and zooming
Using Layers
• Trimming
• Sliding
• Markers
• Layer Preview – double clicking, the most common “mistake”
Layer Properties
• Position, Scale, Opacity, etc
• Quick Keys
Layer Columns
• Hide/Show
Using Switches
• Shy
• Continuously Rasterize
• Quality
• Effect
• Frame Blending
• Motion Blur
• Adjustment Layer
• 3D
Using Keyframes
• Position: Spatial and temporal location
• Keyframe navigation
Graph Editor
Advanced Layer Concepts
• Using Masks
• Track Mattes
• Adjustment Layers
AE Type Tool
3D Space
• Z Space
• Rotation and Orientation
• Perspective and Orthogonal Views
• Custom View
• Creating and Using a Camera
• Camera Tools
• Using Cameras
• Using Lights
• Auto-Orientation
• Point of Interest
• Rendering 3D
Parenting
Pre-Composing
Effects: The 7 Effects you will use most often
Time Remapping Video
Rotoscoping
Color Correction
Creating a Background: Grid, Fractal Noise, etc
Add and animate grungey text
Design elements: script type, stroke
All this in a hands-on setting with exercises at your own G5 station. Maximum class size is NINE.
Don’t Miss Out! After Effects February 19-21 (9a-5p)
Contact Randy Z at 248-351-0101 to register.
(Special discounts for Roscor clients, former Media Power clients, Specs Howard and College program graduates)
Media Power Digital Media Training Center offers exciting and practical short courses in Avid, Apple Final-Cut Pro, Boris FX, DigiDesign/Pro Tools and Adobe Photoshop. Also the popular Six-Week Advanced Editing Course.
Check our website (www.media-power.com) for current course offerings and pricing. If you don’t see what you’re looking for, call us. We can create custom and on-site programs to suit your particular needs.
