Online Training
Video Tutorials
We have created a variety of courses on After Effects (as well as Motion, Final Cut Pro, and CINEMA 4D) which are offered primarily through lynda.com. Rather than all-inclusive long-form courses, we focus on demonstrating universal creative techniques which may employed on a wide variety of jobs, with an emphasis on letting you in on our mental process while we work. We also have a couple of technical courses online, such as detailed studies on how to handle interlacing and 3:2 pulldown.
If you are already a lynda.com subscriber, click here to go to our main page; if you want to try out Lynda.com before subscribing, click here for a free 7-day all-access pass.
April 2010: We have released After Effects CS5: New Creative Techniques on lynda.com, covering the new features in CS5 that we feel will be of interest to our fellow users. This extensive course includes mini-tutorials on using the new Roto Brush tool plus Adobe Repoussé, as well as Digieffects FreeForm and the combination of mocha v2 and mocha shape. We discuss the implications of After Effects becoming a 64-bit native application, application ideas for the new effects, blending modes, and UI tools, and summarize with who may or may not want to upgrade to CS5. The mocha tutorial plus movies on Repoussé are available for free to all.
We’ve also created an hour of video training on using the new features in AE CS4 for Lynda.com. The course is called After Effects CS4: New Creative Techniques. Two of the movies are free online; the remaining 19 are available to Lynda.com subscribers.
Our CMG Keyframes blog on ProVideo Coalition also contains a few video tutorials, such as the videos that came on the disc with After Effects Apprentice 2nd Edition, and a demonstration of the workflow between Sonicfire Pro and After Effects.
Written Tutorials
In addition to our video tutorials online, we have also created nearly 50 written tutorials for Artbeats.com, plus keep an archive of all of our relevant columns and articles on our CMG Keyframes blog on ProVideo Coalition.
WEBINAR
Getting the Most Out of After Effects CS5
July 20, 2010 – $79
Just upgraded to After Effects CS5? Or still considering whether or not to do so? Then join us on July 20th for a webinar hosted by ProVideo Coalitionwhich will show you the most effective ways to take advantage of the new features in After Effects CS5. More details at PVC here...
Online Training News
We have just released After Effects CS5: New Creative Techniques on lynda.com, covering the new features in CS5 that we feel will be of interest to our fellow users. This extensive course includes mini-tutorials on using the new Roto Brush tool plus Adobe Repoussé, as well as Digieffects FreeForm and the combination of mocha v2 and mocha shape. We discuss the implications of After Effects becoming a 64-bit native application, application ideas for the new effects, blending modes, and UI tools, and summarize with who may or may not want to upgrade to CS5. The mocha tutorial plus movies on Repoussé are available for free to all.
Our most recent video course is
After Effects: Extended Vignette Techniques, available exclusively through lynda.com. Vignettes can be used to better frame your subject, fix a poorly-composed shot, give a vintage feel, blend an image over a new background, or otherwise creatively treat footage.
We also recently released CINEMA 4D and After Effects Integration, which is available both on lynda.com and Cineversity. It explains in detail how to move 3D worlds from Maxon’s CINEMA 4D into Adobe’s After Effects. Exercise files accompany this course.
If you are not already a subscriber to lynda.com, you can get a FREE 7-day all-access pass at lynda.com/go/chrisandtrish. A few movies are also available for free preview.
VideoSyncrasies
Before we wrote our first book, we worked with Desktop Images to create a video on the technical issues that crop up while doing motion graphics work: alpha channels, frame rates, field rendering, pixel aspect ratios, luminance issues, and more. Although the software demonstrated is a bit dated (After Effects 4.1, anyone?), many of the techniques are timeless.
VideoSyncrasies – The Motion Graphics Problem Solver DVD is available through Amazon or through its publisher, Desktop Images.