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MEETING TIMES / LOCATION: Tuesday 5pm–8:50pm, MIT B56
INSTRUCTOR: Mr. Bobby Ciraldo
OFFICE HOURS: An hour before or after class, in office B55B, by appointment only.
E-MAIL:  email-address

 

  1. SYLLABUS
  2. SCHEDULE
  3. TOPICS:
    AE Refresher,  Compressing Video With Handbrake,  Basic Expressions & Expression Controls,  3D Camera Tracking,  Sky Replacement,  Face Tracking,  Image Sequences,  Fixing Bad Camera Pans,  Histogram, Waveform, & Vectorscope,  Day for Night,  Making Video Look Like Film,  Extrusion of Shape and Text layers,  Intro to CINEMA 4D Lite
  4. LAB EXERCISES:
    AE Refresher Lab, Basic Expressions & Expression Controls Lab, 3D Camera Tracking Lab, Sky Replacement Lab, Face Tracking Lab, Fixing Bad Camera Pans Lab, Histogram, Waveform Monitor, & Vectorscope Lab,  Day for Night Lab, Extrusion Lab
  5. HOMEWORK PROJECTS:
    AE Refresher Project, Basic Expressions & Expression Controls Project, 3D Camera Tracking Project, Sky Replacement Project, Face Tracking Project, Fixing Bad Camera Pans Project, Histogram, Waveform Monitor, & Vectorscope Project,  Day for Night Project, Extrusion Project
  6. FINAL PROJECT
  7. HELPFUL AE SITES:
    1. FOR BEGINNERS:
      1. Adobe’s own set of tutorials
      2. A nice Adobe blog post about getting started with AE
      3. tutsplus.com – “Welcome to After Effects”
      4. creativecow.net – AE Basics Forum – General Tutorials
      5. greyscalegorilla.com – Intro to AE
      6. videocopilot.net – Basic Training
    2. Q & A  FORUMS:
      1. Creative Cow
      2. Stack Exchange: Video Production topics tagged with After Effects, Graphic Design topics tagged with AE
  8. GREEN SCREEN – http://stevewetzel.org/teaching/green/