After Effects Intermediate Course

Deepen your After Effects skills with advanced compositing, expressions and 3D on this two-day course.

Adobe Certified Experts take you beyond the basics into professional motion design.

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After Effects Intermediate course

After Effects Intermediate Course

After Effects Intermediate Course

This Intermediate level Adobe After Effects covers a range of topics to enhance your skills and knowledge. It starts with project settings and workflow practices, including asset organization and file packaging.

You'll learn about checking footage integrity and understanding Alpha Channels. The course explores effects in detail, such as masks, colour correction, and combining effects with layer modes.

Keyframes and the graph editor are covered for precise animation control. You'll gain insights into masks, rotoscoping, and using Chroma keying to remove backgrounds.

Text layers, motion tracking, expressions, shape layers, time changes, render settings, 3D layers, and integration with Adobe Premiere and Cinema 4D are also addressed.

New to After Effects? Complete our After Effects Introduction course first.

To reach expert level, our After Effects Advanced course covers expressions, Cinema 4D integration and more.
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Two Days

Timings icon

10:00 - 16:30 UK Time

  • Key Learning Points

  • icon Improve workflow structure and asset management
  • icon Understand alpha channels and bit depth correctly
  • icon Control keyframes and masks with advanced techniques
  • icon Animate text and use motion tracking
  • icon Work with 3D layers and link to Premiere and C4D

If attending an online course you must have a licensed copy of any software required and access to a suitable computer.

You'll need to have attended our After Effects Intro course or have equivalent working knowledge before joining this class.

Who is this course for?

For After Effects users who want to develop advanced compositing and animation skills. Requires our After Effects Introduction course or equivalent working knowledge.

Our Expert Team
ACP Trainers

Course leader is an Adobe Certified Expert

Course Dates Days Location Places RRP Discount You Pay
18-19th Jun 26 Thu-Fri Online Available £549.00 £150.00 £399.00 + VAT
21-22nd Jul 26 Tue-Wed London Islington Available £549.00 £120.00 £429.00 + VAT
25-26th Aug 26 Tue-Wed Online Available £549.00 £100.00 £449.00 + VAT
16-17th Sep 26 Wed-Thu London Islington Available £549.00 £70.00 £479.00 + VAT
12-13th Oct 26 Mon-Tue Online Available £549.00 £50.00 £499.00 + VAT
16-17th Nov 26 Mon-Tue London Islington Available £549.00 £549.00 + VAT
2-3rd Dec 26 Wed-Thu Online Available £549.00 £549.00 + VAT
No in-person dates available at the moment.
Course Dates Days Location Places RRP Discount You Pay
21-22nd Jul 26 Tue-Wed London Islington Available £549.00 £120.00 £429.00 + VAT
16-17th Sep 26 Wed-Thu London Islington Available £549.00 £70.00 £479.00 + VAT
16-17th Nov 26 Mon-Tue London Islington Available £549.00 £549.00 + VAT
Course Dates Days Location Places RRP Discount You Pay
18-19th Jun 26 Thu-Fri Online Available £549.00 £150.00 £399.00 + VAT
25-26th Aug 26 Tue-Wed Online Available £549.00 £100.00 £449.00 + VAT
12-13th Oct 26 Mon-Tue Online Available £549.00 £50.00 £499.00 + VAT
2-3rd Dec 26 Wed-Thu Online Available £549.00 £549.00 + VAT
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Course Dates

18-19th Jun 26 (Thu-Fri)

Location:Online

Places: Available

RRP: £549.00

Discount: £150.00

You Pay: £399.00 + VAT
21-22nd Jul 26 (Tue-Wed)

Location:London Islington

Places: Available

RRP: £549.00

Discount: £120.00

You Pay: £429.00 + VAT
25-26th Aug 26 (Tue-Wed)

Location:Online

Places: Available

RRP: £549.00

Discount: £100.00

You Pay: £449.00 + VAT
16-17th Sep 26 (Wed-Thu)

Location:London Islington

Places: Available

RRP: £549.00

Discount: £70.00

You Pay: £479.00 + VAT
12-13th Oct 26 (Mon-Tue)

Location:Online

Places: Available

RRP: £549.00

Discount: £50.00

You Pay: £499.00 + VAT
16-17th Nov 26 (Mon-Tue)

Location:London Islington

Places: Available

RRP: £549.00

Discount:

You Pay: £549.00 + VAT
2-3rd Dec 26 (Wed-Thu)

Location:Online

Places: Available

RRP: £549.00

Discount:

You Pay: £549.00 + VAT

Course Outline

1

Project Settings in detail

  • Better workflow practices - structure
  • Workflow for replacing and organising your assets
  • Using Collect files for "Packaging"
2

The Info Palette

  • Checking footage integrity
  • Checking the Alpha Channel
  • How Alpha Channels really work
  • Avoiding basic Alpha mistakes
  • Bit depth and colour spaces - 8,16 and 32 Bits per channel
3

Exploring Effects in detail

  • Using masks with effects - "compositing options"
  • Better colour correction
  • Combining effects with layers modes
  • Better effect combination with effect transfer modes
  • Some key under used effects
  • Distortions and Warps
  • Basic particle systems
4

Keyframes in detail

  • Keyframe Interpolation
  • Spatial and Temporal Interpolation
  • Controlling bezier path behaviour
5

The Graph Editor

  • Two graphs in one - the Value and Velocity curves
  • Controlling Speed with the graph editor
  • Adjusting temporal Interpolation types for better control
6

More advanced masks in After Effects

  • Tips for better mask control
  • Creating a basic Rotoscope
  • Rotoscoping with Roto Brush 3
  • Rotoscoping - good and bad examples
  • Refining edges
  • Avoiding Rotoscoping where possible
  • Mask Tracking
  • Using Chroma keying to remove backgrounds
7

Text Layers

  • Source text - a hidden gem
  • Creating counters - source text with an expression
  • Text animators in detail - advanced settings
8

Motion Tracking

  • Following an object in a shot - basic position tracking
  • How the tracker works
  • Track settings for better results
  • Tracker options
9

Basic expressions

  • Wiggling and looping - getting better control
  • Loop types
  • Duplicating Wiggles - why and how
  • Random "Seeds" - how they work and why it matters
  • Linking properties with the "Pickwhip"
  • Using Expression controls
  • Using Expressions to create animations easily
  • Creating automatic audio based animation
10

Advanced Shape Layers

  • Adding more complex parameters to shape layers
  • Converting Vector files to shape layers for better control
  • Using Repeaters for shape generation and animation
11

Time changes

  • Time remapping
  • Using correct Frame Blending settings
12

Render Settings in detail

  • Alpha output - avoiding problems with pre-multiplication
  • File formats with greater bit depth
  • Better use of Media encoder
  • Compression settings - bit rates and how compressed files work
13

A detailed understanding of 3D Layers

  • Camera settings
  • Depth of field
  • 3D rendered choices
  • Geometry options for extrusion
  • Material options and reflections
  • Lights Settings in detail
  • Shadow problems solved
  • Animated Camera problems and solutions
  • Creating a Camera "Orbit Null"
  • Creating complex camera animation easily
  • The Collapse transformation button in 3D
14

Using After Effects with Adobe Premiere

  • Dynamic link options
  • Examples of typical workflows
15

The link to Cinema 4D

  • Cinema 4D Lite - how to access it
  • Using Cinema 4D files within After Effects

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Professionals who wish to develop skills for their current role and companies who believe in developing their talent.

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Upskill your team together. Build your team and develop consistency, and collective confidence.

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Define your direction with purpose, aligning your learning journey to personal and career goals.

2

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Gain practical insight from real-world experts who bring clarity, confidence, and momentum to your growth.

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Your certificate of attendance is proof of progress — benchmarking your skills and commitment to growth.

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