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Course Content

  CS3 CS4 CS5

Introduction to the Interface

• Project window

• Composition window

• Timeline

• Layer window

• Palettes

• Managing your workspace

Working with footage

• Photoshop files

• Illustrator files

• Image sequences

• Movies (QuickTime; AVI)

• Audio

Animation

• Basic transformations

• Keyframe types

• Keyframe Assistants

• Rostrum work (Panning and Zooming)

Basic Compositing

• Drawing Masks

• Animating Masks

• Understanding Channels

• The Magic of Blending Modes

• Creating Track mattes

Effects

• Understanding effect properties

• Animating effects

• Effect order & collapsing

transformations

• Nesting & pre-composing

• Adjustment layers 

Text

• Basic text formatting

• Working with Text Animators

• Working with imported text

Paint

• Basic Rotoscoping

• Animating paint properties

• The Clone tool

Fundamentals of 3D & parenting

• Working with 3D Tools and interface

• Understanding 3D layers

• Using the cameras

• Working with lights

• Parenting and Nulls

Technical Issues

• Interlacing and field issues

• Colour and luminance issues

• Understanding aspect ratios

• Working with Codecs

• Output options

Discounts on Public Courses

·     held  at Mullan Training suites – opposite Europa hotel

·     full price for 1st delegate  

·     10% reduction  2nd delegate

·     20% for 3rd and subsequent delegates