After effects essentials

After Effects Courses Lebanon – Essentials and AI Training

Enroll in After Effects courses at ETC Lebanon and master motion graphics, dynamic VFX, and AI-enhanced workflows. Create eye-catching content for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook. Available in-person or online – enroll now!


Duration: 20 hours

Teaching Methodology: Hands on

Course Schedule: Schedule

Fees $450

Course Mode: Blended Face-to-face or online via Zoom

DESCRIPTION

Dive into the realm of creative possibilities with our Adobe After Effects course. Unleash your imagination as you learn to craft mesmerizing motion graphics, stunning visual effects, and compelling compositions for short videos across popular platforms like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and TV. Gain hands-on experience in creating impactful visuals and bring your ideas to life.

Discover how to integrate AI into your workflow—using built-in tools as well as third-party AI plugins and generative graphics platforms—to automate tedious tasks and add next-level creative effects to your After Effects projects.

OVERVIEW

In this course, students learn how to use Adobe After Effects CC to create 2D motion graphics. They will:

  • Learn about the workflow
  • Manipulate keyframes
  • Edit layers and effects
  • Create animations for Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube
  • Create transparencies
  • Add type and music
  • Create still Graphic Designs and export to Photoshop
  • Export multimedia, cinema, and TV file formats
  • Use AI built-in and third-party tools

AUDIENCE

Graphic designers, art students, art directors, architects, artists, animators, and anyone interested in creating 2D motion presentations.

PREREQUISITES

Adobe Photoshop Essentials

FREE ONLINE EXAM

Use our free online Adobe After Effects Exam to assess your skills. You may select particular categories. There is no password or limit on how many times you can take it. When you hit the Finish button, the system will post the results on the screen and send a copy to your email.

Frequently Asked Questions

What will I learn in the After Effects Essentials course?
You’ll learn motion graphics, keyframing, VFX, transparency, working with text, audio syncing, and rendering for TV and social media platforms.

Are AI (Artificial Intelligence) features included in this course?
Yes. You learn how to spice up your videos with AI-built-in tools, plug-in tools, and graphics generated by AI platforms.

After Effects Essentials 01
After Effects Essentials 02
After Effects Essentials 03
After Effects Essentials 04

COURSE CONTENTS

00 - The Interface

  • Project Structure
  • Main Application window
  • Tools panel; Project panel
  • Importing footage
  • Footage panel
  • Transparency and alpha channels
  • Composition panel
  • Timeline panel
  • Layer panel
  • Info, Preview, Audio panels
  • Effects & Presets; Effect Controls; other panels
  • workspaces; stacked panels
  • Previewing
  • Work area
  • Preview behaviors
  • Download Lesson 00
The Interface

01 - Basic Animation

  • Composition basics
  • Starting a project, creating folders
  • Importing footage; alpha channels
  • Creating a new composition
  • Adding Layers to the Comp panel
  • Changing property values
  • Animating Position, the motion path
  • Previewing the animation
  • Navigating between keyframes
  • Managing the comp view; zooming
  • Applying Easy Ease In
  • Adding the foreground layers
  • Duplicating and replacing layers
  • More precise placement; snapping and grids
  • Adding solid layers
  • Applying, copying, and pasting effects
  • Dragging footage to the Timeline panel
  • Editing motion paths, spatial keyframe types
  • Animating scale, rotation, and opacity
  • Rendering
  • Importing Layered Photoshop and Illustrator files
  • Download Lesson 01
Basic Animation

02 - Advanced Animation

  • Graph Editor Sets
  • Keyframe basics
  • Anchor Point overview
  • Anchor Point tool
  • Motion control moves
  • Graph Editor
  • Speed versus value graphs
  • Panning and zooming the timeline
  • Editing graph curves
  • Easing animations
  • Improving the timing; Graph Editor Sets
  • Separate Dimensions
  • Motion Sketch
  • Smoothing keyframes
  • Auto-Orient
  • Motion Blur
  • Roving keyframes
  • Time-Reverse Keyframes
  • Hold keyframes
  • Time display and time timecode
  • Download Lesson 02
Advanced Animation

03 - Editing Layers and Effects

  • Layers and stacking order
  • Moving layers in time
  • Trimming layers
  • Trimming in the Layer and Footage panels
  • Slip Editing
  • Sequence layers keyframe assistant
  • Looping footage
  • Image sequences
  • Changing the frame rate; Time Stretch
  • Applying Effects
  • Blending modes
  • Effects and solids
  • Effect motion path
  • Effects & Presets; searching for effects
  • Animation presets
  • Behavior presets
  • Layer styles
  • Adjustment layers
  • Filmic glow trick
  • Property links with effects
  • Third-party effects
  • Higher-quality scaling
  • Download Lesson 03
Editing Layers and Effects

04 - Creating Transparency

  • Masking tools; creating mask shapes
  • Free Transform Points
  • Masking in the Layer panel; Ellipse tool
  • Maks feather
  • Animating a mask path
  • Creating a vignette; Mask Expansion
  • Masking with the Pen tool
  • Effecting a masked area
  • Mask path interpolation; First vertex
  • Mask Interpolation keyframe assistant
  • Effects that can use the mask path; Scribble effect
  • Mask Modes and multiple masks
  • Mask Opacity
  • Creating and editing RotoBezier masks
  • Audio Spectrum effect
  • Rigid Mask Tracker
  • Face Tracking
  • Variable mask feathering
  • Alpha Track Matte
  • Nesting a track matte composite
  • Luma Track Matte
  • Animating matte layers
  • Stencil Luma and Stencil Alpha
  • Color Keying; Keylight; greenscreen
  • Key Cleaner and Advanced Spill Suppressor
  • Effects with track mattes and stencils
  • Green Screen Techniques: Subject 2 to 3m in front
  • Screen evenly lit with 45deg diffuse light
  • Download Lesson 04
Creating Transparency

05 - Type and Music

  • Creating basic text
  • Creating text Animators; Range Selectors
  • Animating text Position, Rotation, and Opacity
  • Randomizing the order of characters
  • Creating Cascading text; working with selection Shapes
  • Setting the text Anchor Point
  • Animating by words
  • Title safe areas
  • Animating text Blur and Tracking
  • Text on a path
  • Adding the Wiggly Selector
  • Rendering with an alpha channel
  • Multiple selectors and animators
  • Using text animation presets
  • Saving text animations as presets
  • Editing photoshop text layers
  • Adding audio to a comp
  • Spotting audio
  • Mixing and enhancing the audio
  • Download Lesson 05
Type and Music

06 - Spicing With AI Tools

  • Overview of AI features in After Effects (Sensei-powered tools)
  • Removing and replacing elements with Content-Aware Fill
  • Generating frame by frame animation using ChatGPT
  • Integrating third-party AI plugins (e.g., Runway ML, Ebsynth)
  • Generating and compositing AI-created backgrounds and textures
  • Creating generative visuals using Firefly and other platforms
Rendering

07 - Rendering

  • Rendering under the hood
  • Render templates
  • Adobe Media Encoder
  • Rendering movies
  • Rendering sequences
Rendering