This video series will prepare you for the Adobe After Effects certification exam. You will learn essential motion graphics and visual effects techniques to elevate your After Effects proficiency and includes helping you answer the questions around working in the industry. While this course will lay the groundwork for understanding After Effects, Adobe recommends 150 hours of instruction and practical experience to confidently tackle the Certification exam.
Before you get started, Luisa introduces you to how to get the most out of this course including more information about the certification exam.
Learn to consider the purpose, audience, and their needs when working on visual effects and motion graphics projects.
Learn effective communication with colleagues and clients regarding project plans.
Identify the intellectual property rights, permissions, and licensing needed for using content.
Identify when and how to obtain permission to use images, audio, or footage such as a model release, location permitting, property release, rights, permissions, licensing.
Understand essential terms and tools in digital audio and video including frame rate, aspect ratio, safe zones, and more.
Learn common animation terms and principles such as squashing, stretching, anticipation, staging, and more.
Learn the meaning behind standard compositing techniques such as lighting, color, scale, and perspective, working in 3D space, rotoscoping, and more.
Understand common cinematic composition terms and principles such as aspect ratio, rule of thirds, foreground, background, and more.
Identify general design principles and guidelines for motion graphics including space, line, shape, form, color, texture, and more.
Learn how to access the exercise files in this course.
Learn how to choose the right project settings such project location, media assets, rendering and effects.
Create and modify compositions to match the delivery requirements such as frame rate, resolution, duration, and more.
Learn how to adjust the work area, background color, naming compositions, composition from footage, etc.
Navigate, organize, and customize the application workspace and learn to identify, navigate, and manipulate elements.
Learn how to identify, navigate, and manipulate elements such as Key Panels: Project panel, and Timeline panel.
Identify, navigate, and manipulate elements such as the Composition panel, Preview panel, Effects & Presets panel
Identify, navigate, and manipulate elements such as the Effect Controls panel, Layer panel, etc.
Customize and manage workspaces such as showing, hiding, grouping, and docking panels and utilizing the Workspace panel, shortcuts, and more.
Navigate, organize, and customize the application workspace and configure application preferences.
Learn to use non-visible design tools in the interface to aid in controlling and working with the timeline and media.
Learn to use non-visible design tools in the interface to aid in video workflow composition (timeline) and layer (clip) markers.
Learn how to use guides and grids to define title/action safe zones (areas) and more.
Learn how to import media from various sources and learn how to work with compatible files, importing layers, and more.
Learn how to use the Timeline panel and recognize the different types of layers in the Timeline panel.
Learn how to manage multiple layers in a composition.
Learn about pre-composing, parenting, null objects, render order, synchronizing/ aligning audio with visual effects, etc.
Learn how to modify layer visibility using opacity, blending modes, track mattes, and masks.
Create, apply, and manipulate masks and track mattes.
We continue to learn more about masks and track mattes.
Learn core tools and functionality as well as tools that affect the visual appearance of composition elements.
Create visual elements using a variety of tools such as the Pen and vector editing tools.
Learn how to place assets into a composition. You'll learn concepts such as temporal (timeline) position, spatial (coordinates) position, and more.
Create, manipulate, and animate text in a composition.
Adjust character settings such as font, size, style and kerning.
Adjust paragraph settings such as alignment, indentation, paragraph spacing, and more.
Animate text by applying and adjusting preset animations.
Adjust footage for use in compositions and learn moving, sequencing, trimming, and splitting layers.
Modify digital media within a project and transform visual elements in the composition by scaling, rotating, flipping, and moving.
Modify digital media within a project. Change the speed of a video clip using time remapping, time stretching, creating freeze frames. and more.
Manipulate digital video and use basic auto-correction methods and tools.
Apply and adjust a video effect or preset to a layer using properties in the Effect Controls panel and timeline.
Add and modify effects and presets in the 3D space to modify composition elements.
Create composites and learn features such as keying, opacity, masking effects, mattes, and alpha channels.
Learn more about adjustments layers and animation presets
Apply and adjust transformations using keyframes and transform properties, motion paths, and more.
Part two of learning more about keyframes.
Animate effects using keyframes in the Effect Controls panel and timeline.
Learn how to save and export compositions or specific assets in multiple formats.
Learn how to archive a project and find missing files, fonts, file names, file locations, and more.
Learn how to export frames, file formats, file names, export locations, layered Photoshop files, and more.
Learn how to export a composition to Premiere Pro as well as file formats, video codecs, and more.
Luisa gives some tips on how to take the After Effects Certification test.
Validate your knowledge of Adobe After Effects. Adobe recommends 150 hours of instruction and hands-on experience to become an Adobe Certified Professional. Adobe worked with creative industry experts and test design specialists at Certiport to identify the skills and concepts critical to using After Effects in a professional context.
The resulting 50-minute exam is integrated with the Premiere Pro application, allowing for an authentic assessment of job-ready skills. The exam is available in English, Chinese, German, Spanish, and Japanese.
Test your knowledge today.
Learn at your own pace.
Adobe After Effects Classroom in a Book contains 15 lessons that use real-world, project-based learning to cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. For beginners and experienced users alike, you can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you
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