Adobe After Effects and AI Motion Graphics course in Lebanon at ETC Expertise Training Center

Adobe After Effects + AI Motion Graphics Course in Lebanon

Learn Adobe After Effects + AI Motion Graphics at ETC Lebanon and create professional animations, motion graphics, visual effects, title sequences, social media content, advertising videos, and promotional productions.

Adobe After Effects is the industry-standard motion graphics and visual effects application used by content creators, motion designers, video editors, advertising agencies, television networks, production studios, and marketing teams worldwide. This course combines traditional animation techniques with modern AI-assisted workflows to accelerate creative production.

Participants create animated titles, logo reveals, social media animations, advertising content, promotional videos, visual effects sequences, and motion graphics projects through hands-on exercises and real-world production workflows.


Duration: 20 hours

Teaching Methodology: Hands on

Course Schedule: Schedule

Fees $450

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

Certificate: Attested by the Lebanese Ministry of Education

ETC Expertise Training Center is a licensed educational institution in Lebanon. Students who meet the requirements outlined in ETC's certification roadmap may qualify for ETC certificates attested by the Lebanese Ministry of Education.



DESCRIPTION

Adobe After Effects is the industry-standard application for motion graphics, visual effects, title animation, social media content, advertising videos, promotional productions, and digital storytelling. This course teaches professional animation and compositing workflows through practical projects and hands-on exercises.

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

Participants who take this course will learn how to:

  • Create professional motion graphics and animations
  • Master keyframing and animation principles
  • Create title sequences and logo reveals
  • Design content for YouTube, Instagram Reels, TikTok, and social media
  • Create advertising and promotional videos
  • Apply visual effects and compositing techniques
  • Work with transparency, masking, and green-screen workflows
  • Add typography, music, and sound effects
  • Use Adobe Firefly and AI-assisted motion graphics tools
  • Create AI-enhanced visual productions
  • Export content for web, TV, social media, and digital marketing

AUDIENCE

Motion designers, graphic designers, video editors, content creators, videographers, social media managers, marketing professionals, marketing teams, corporate communication teams, advertising agencies, production teams, YouTubers, educators, and anyone interested in professional animation and visual effects.

PREREQUISITES

Adobe Photoshop + AI 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.

Does the course include AI motion graphics tools?
Yes. The course covers Adobe Sensei-powered features, Content-Aware Fill for video, Adobe Firefly integration, Runway ML workflows, AI-assisted visual effects, and AI-generated creative assets.

Can I create content for YouTube and social media?
Yes. You will learn to create custom high-impact animations, looping layouts, logo reveals, and cinematic vertical crops for platforms like YouTube, Instagram Reels, TikTok, and corporate ads.

Will I create real-world motion graphics projects?
Yes. This hands-on course is structured around real marketing briefs, title sequences, visual effects composites, logo reveals, and professional short-form content projects.

Motion graphics animation project
Adobe After Effects visual effects workflow
Social media motion graphics design
Professional title animation project

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 - AI-Powered Motion Graphics Workflows

  • Adobe Sensei-powered features
  • Content-Aware Fill for video
  • Adobe Firefly integration
  • Generating motion graphics concepts with AI
  • Runway ML workflows
  • AI-assisted visual effects
  • AI-generated backgrounds and assets
  • Combining AI-generated content with After Effects
AI-Powered Motion Graphics Workflows

07 - Rendering

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

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