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Noble Desktop

After Effects Compositing, Tracking, & Keying (Live Online)

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Overview

Dive into compositing with this advanced After Effects class. During this course, you will learn crucial animation skills like keying, rotoscoping, and tracking, as well as how to seamlessly integrate graphic elements into your compositions.

Syllabus

Using Content-Aware Fill for Video

  • Integrating Content-Aware Fill in Your Projects

Motion Tracking Using the After Effects Point Tracker

  • Tracking Transform: Position, Rotation, and Scale
  • Compositing 2D Graphics & Effects

Motion Tracking Using MochaAE

  • Types of Tracking: Point vs. Planar
  • Tracking Corner Pin: Screen Replacement

3D Camera Tracking

  • Using the 3D Camera Tracker Effects
  • Compositing 2D & 3D Graphics with Video
  • How to Export 3D Data for Other Programs

Stabiliation of Shaky Footage

  • Using the Warp Stabilizer VFX

Chroma Keying: Green Screen Removal

  • Green Screen Shooting Basics
  • Using Masks for Cleanup (Garbage Mattes)
  • Using the Keylight Effect for Chroma Keying

Time Remapping Video

  • What is Time Remapping?
  • Creating a Slow/Fast Motion Effects
  • What is Frame Blending?

Rotoscoping Video Footage

  • What is Rotoscoping?
  • Manual Rotoscoping
  • Using the Roto Brush Tool

Working with Track Mattes

  • What are Track Mattes?
  • Track Matte Properties (Luma and Alpha)
  • Creating Track Mattes (Images and Video)
  • Animating Track Mattes

Taught by

Jerron Smith, Stephen MacGillivray, and Dan Rodney

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