Program Overview

Centre for Continuing Education

The Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Sydney offers a diverse range of professional development short courses. These courses are designed to enhance professional development, grow technical and people skills, and support career progression.

Course Subjects

The Centre for Continuing Education offers courses in various subjects, including:

• Business and management
  • Business communication
  • Business strategy
  • Business writing
  • Cultural competence and diversity
  • Finance
  • Leadership
  • Management
  • Organisational psychology
  • Sales and customer service
• English
• HSC preparation (years 10-12)
  • HSC biology
  • HSC business studies
  • HSC chemistry
  • HSC economics
  • HSC English
  • HSC mathematics
  • HSC physics
  • Year 11 (Revision)
  • Years 10-12 study and essay skills
• Humanities and culture
  • Creative writing
  • Music
  • Philosophy
  • Psychology
• Information technology
  • Adobe
  • AI and machine learning courses
  • Data analysis and analytics
  • Google
  • Microsoft
• Language
  • Arabic
  • Brazilian Portuguese
  • Chinese
  • French
  • German
  • Greek
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Spanish
• Marketing
  • Digital marketing
  • Marketing communications
  • Product development
• Project management
  • Agile methodology courses
  • Change management for projects
  • Stakeholder and people management
  • Technical project management skills

Course Details

Adobe After Effects Course: Level 1

This two-day Adobe After Effects training course is designed to help those new to motion graphics get the most out of this immensely powerful software. Whether you're a graphic designer, web designer, rich media artist, or broadcast video editor, Adobe After Effects will help you create stunning broadcast-quality motion graphics and visual effects.

Course Content

The course covers:

• After Effects Interface
  • Workspace
  • Panels
  • Tools panel
• New Project
  • Start a New Project
  • Importing Footage and Organising Media
  • Importing Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator files
  • Layer Import Options
  • Replace Footage with a Layered Composition
  • Preparing Illustrator files
• Building Compositions
  • Create a New Composition
  • New Composition from an existing file
  • Composition Settings
  • Layer Properties in the Timeline Panel
  • Trim or Extend a Layer
  • Split Layers
• Creating Animations
  • Keyframe Animation
  • Anchor Point
  • Aligning
  • Auto Orientate
  • Roving keyframes
  • Adjustment Layers
  • Parenting
  • Precompose
  • Nesting
• Create Text
  • Creating Titles
  • Character and Paragraph Settings
  • Text Animation Presets
  • Adjust Text Animator Properties
  • Source Text Animation
  • Text on a Path
• Create Shapes
  • Create a Shape
  • Shape Layer Properties
  • Animating Shapes
  • Trim Paths
  • Repeater
• Motion Tracking
  • Motion Tracking Overview
  • Track Motion
  • Null Object
  • Motion Tracker Settings
• Effects and Presets
  • Browse Effects & Presets
  • Warp Stabilizer
  • Motion Tile Effect
  • Radio Waves Effect
  • Puppet Tool
  • Motion Sketch
  • Content-Aware Fill
  • Speed Change
• Colour Correction and Grading
  • Basic Correction
  • Creative
  • RGB Curves
  • Hue Saturation Curves
  • Colour Wheels
  • Secondary Colour Corrector
• Masking, Transparency and Keying
  • Masking
  • Tracking a Mask
  • Keying
  • Opacity and Blending Modes
  • Track Matte
  • Roto Brush & Refine Edge Tools
• Introduction to 3D
  • Working with 3D Layers
  • Cameras
  • Move the Camera through a Scene
  • Lights & Shadows
• Save and Export
  • Save and Export
  • Adobe Media Encoder

Intended Audience

This course is suitable for anyone wanting to fast track themselves with motion graphics techniques.

Prerequisites

This introductory course assumes little or no prior knowledge of the software. While previous experience with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator is not mandatory, it can be beneficial since some functions and concepts overlap between these programs and After Effects.

Delivery Mode

The course is available in face-to-face and online formats.

Delivery Style

• Face-to-face classes: These classes run in a classroom, and you will need to bring your own device with Adobe After Effects installed.
• Online classes: You will need your own device with Adobe After Effects installed. A computer with a larger screen or two screens/devices is recommended.

Materials

Course materials are provided electronically using Dropbox.

Before the Course

You will need an Adobe Creative Cloud account to participate. If you don't have an existing account, you can purchase an Adobe Creative Cloud account. Please bring your account login details with you to class.

Related Courses

• Adobe Illustrator Course: Level 1
• Adobe Illustrator Course: Level 2
• Adobe InDesign Course: Level 1
• Adobe Photoshop Course: Level 1
• Adobe Premiere Pro Course: Level 1
• Designing With Adobe Express Course

Meet the Facilitators

• Antony Brown: An Adobe and Apple certified instructor with over 15 years of experience teaching design software.

Testimonials

• "I loved the course and the tutor was absolutely wonderful and very thorough - making sure no-one was left behind, and while a bit slower sometimes because of those who didn't understand, no-one left without feeling 100% with what was covered." - Katyha Gonzalez
• "There were a lot of topics to cover, but surprisingly the course was done at a good pace and everyone in class was able to keep up. It was succinct, but basic enough for a level 1 student like me, who is just starting to get to know the software. Highly appreciated and recommend!" - Jaimee Bartolo
• "The Adobe After Effects course proved to be a practical and valuable experience. The instructor, with a hands-on and passionate approach, used practical teaching methods and demonstrated how to effectively utilise the software's functionalities. The guide and materials provided are also very clear and simple to follow. The skills acquired are directly applicable to my role and I have already started using Adobe After Effects to elevate my projects. I look forward to continue using this platform in current and future projects." - Heather Jenaway

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