Live workshopAdobe Creative Cloud training for teams
Adobe After Effects Advanced (Level 2)
- Built around your actual work
- Live online, or on-site by request
- Training careers nationwide since 2006
Workshop brief
Adobe After Effects Advanced (Level 2)
- Duration
- 14 hrs (4 sessions)
- Tuition
- $795.00per participant; team and private pricing by quote
- Delivery
- Live onlineOn-site, in person, by request
- Included
- Certificate of completionFor every participant
It moves. It does not look like anyone meant it to.
The animation plays and something is off. Not broken, just slightly cheap, and nobody in the room can name what. That gap is almost always timing, spacing, and follow-through, and it is fixable once someone shows you what to look at.
This class is the polish and the leverage. Expressions so a change happens once instead of across forty keyframes. Compositing that survives scrutiny. And essential graphics templates, which is the one that changes how a team works: build the lower third once, hand it to an editor, and they never open After Effects.
Motion designers take this to sharpen craft. Video teams take it to stop being the bottleneck for every title card. It counts toward the Digital Media Production Certificate.
Content and exercises are built around real work, and private group sessions are built around your own brand, templates, and files. Classes are delivered live online, and on-site delivery is available across the Colorado Front Range. This class sits alongside our other Adobe Creative Cloud classes.
Why teams book DWC
- Content, datasets, and examples built around your work before delivery
- Live online with a real instructor, or on-site at your location
- Invoicing and purchase order documentation for your organization
What your team gets
This course includes
- Live, instructor led class delivered across four sessions
- Graph editor work on animation that plays but reads as cheap
- Expressions taught for people who are not programmers
- Essential graphics templates an editor can drive from Premiere
- Digital learning materials and take home reference guides
- Certificate of completion for every participant
Course outline
How the workshop runs
Every session is live with a real instructor, and the exercises are built around your team's work.
The first sessions are the polish problem. Participants take work that technically plays and learn to see why it reads as cheap: linear motion, uniform timing, no overlap or follow-through. They fix it with the graph editor rather than guessing, and most report that this session alone changes their output permanently.
The middle is expressions and systems. Expressions to drive properties, link layers, and automate repetition, taught for people who are not programmers. Shape and text systems built so a rebrand or a copy change is a field edit. Then essential graphics templates: packaging a graphic so an editor can drive it from Premiere without touching After Effects.
The final sessions are compositing and pipeline. Tracking, keying, rotoscoping, and matte work that holds at full resolution. Then render management, proxies, and pre-composing strategy, so complex projects stay workable and overnight renders stop being routine.
Outcomes
What You'll Learn at a Glance
- See and fix the timing and spacing that make motion read as cheap
- Use the graph editor rather than guessing at easing
- Write expressions to link properties and automate repetition
- Build shape and text systems where a change is a field edit
- Package essential graphics templates for editors in Premiere
- Track, key, and roto so the composite holds at full resolution
- Manage renders and pre-comps so complex projects stay workable
Duration
Prerequisites
Participants should be comfortable with compositions, keyframing, and basic After Effects work. Those without that foundation should start with Adobe After Effects Beginners (Level 1). After Effects must be installed before the first session.
Format
Online for most groups; on-site delivery by request.
Adobe software is not included
Participants need access to the Adobe application this workshop covers, and the software has its own cost. Once enrolled, DWC students are eligible for Adobe student pricing.
Dates and options
Join a public session or book your teamBook this workshop for your team
Public sessions
Mon, Mar 29 - Wed, Apr 7, 2027
5:00 PM to 8:30 PM
$795.00per participant
Train your team privately
Schedule this workshop for your team, live online or on-site, with content built around your work. Tell us your group size, goals, and target dates.
How team training works
From first call to trained team
- 20,000+Participants trained
- 90%Completion rate
- 1,500+Organizations served
Scope it
A short call about your team, your tools, and what needs to change after the session.
Customize it
Your instructor builds examples, exercises, and datasets around your actual work before delivery.
Deliver it live
Live online for most groups, or on-site at your location, scheduled around your team.
Make it stick
Every participant leaves with reference materials and a certificate of completion.
Pricing
Tuition and ways to buy
$795.00 per participant
Adobe After Effects Advanced (Level 2) runs 14 hours across four live sessions. Enroll as an individual or book private training for your team.
- Individual enrollment: $895 per participant. Book a seat on a scheduled class directly. If no date is listed, request information and we will tell you when one opens
- Private group training: request a custom quote. Built around your own brand, templates, and files, and scheduled around your team
- Certificate credit: this class counts toward the Digital Media Production Certificate
- Employer funding: we provide invoices, purchase order documentation, and certificates of completion on request
Register above for the next scheduled class, or request a quote for group pricing and scheduling.
Adobe software is not included in tuition. Once enrolled, DWC students are eligible for Adobe student pricing.
- Per participant
Enroll a few employees at the per-participant rate.
- Private team session
Your group only, built around your data, tools, and schedule.
- Invoice your organization
DWC invoices your company directly and provides purchase order documentation.
- Multi-workshop programs
Combine workshops into a series for a department or a cohort of new managers.
Adobe Creative Cloud training
Adobe Creative Cloud training for teams
Marketing, communications, and in-house creative teams rely on Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Adobe Express. DWC teaches each one live, in beginner and advanced levels, with exercises built around your brand and the assets your team produces.
Train a whole creative team at once, or upskill the people outside it who need to produce on-brand graphics, documents, and video without waiting in the design queue.
Can you customize this workshop for our team?
Yes. Content, datasets, and examples are built around your actual work before delivery, so participants practice on the files, tools, and situations they deal with every day.
Is the training online or on-site?
Most groups train live online with a real instructor. On-site, in-person delivery is available by request.
Is there a minimum group size?
Most workshops booked for a team have a three participant minimum, and the Tuition section on each workshop page lists its exact terms. One-on-one sessions and smaller groups are priced case by case, and larger groups are quoted based on group size, schedule, and delivery format.
Do participants need Adobe software?
Yes. Participants need access to the Adobe application the workshop covers, such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, or After Effects. The software has its own cost and is not included in tuition. Once enrolled, DWC students are eligible for Adobe student pricing.
Do you offer beginner and advanced levels?
Yes. Most Adobe workshops come in a beginner level and an advanced level, so new users and experienced staff each get the right starting point.
Do participants receive a certificate?
Yes. Every participant receives a certificate of completion, along with digital learning materials and take-home reference guides.
Can we pay by invoice or purchase order?
Yes. DWC invoices your organization directly and provides purchase order documentation.
Can individual employees join a public session?
When a workshop has public dates, they appear in the Dates section of this page with a registration button. If none are listed, request a quote and we will share your options.
Bring this workshop to your team
Tell us about your group and your goals. A training advisor follows up within one business day with options and pricing.