Adobe After Effects Beginners (Level 1)
Static stopped working. Nobody taught you the alternative.
Every channel now rewards motion and your team makes static. The workaround is a template site subscription that produces something almost right, in a file nobody can change, that looks like everyone else's.
After Effects is the answer and it is genuinely intimidating, which is why most people never get past opening it. This class is deliberately practical: no theory detour, no film credits sequence, just the moving assets a marketing or communications team actually needs, built from scratch.
Marketing and communications staff take this because video and social need motion. Video teams take it to stop outsourcing titles. 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.
This course includes
- Live, instructor led class delivered across four sessions
- Reusable titles and lower thirds built with your own brand assets
- Keyframing and easing taught as the thing that separates amateur from professional
- Rendering and codecs, which defeat more beginners than any creative technique
- Digital learning materials and take home reference guides
- Certificate of completion for every participant
Description
The first sessions demystify the interface and teach keyframes properly. Compositions, layers, and the timeline, then animation that has weight: easing, spacing, and timing. Participants learn quickly that the difference between amateur and professional motion is almost entirely easing, and that it is a setting rather than a talent.
The middle is the work they came for. Animated titles and lower thirds built as reusable assets rather than one-offs. Logo animation. Text and shape animation. Participants build with their own brand assets, so what they make in class is what they use at work the following week.
The final sessions are integration and output. Masks, mattes, and simple compositing. Working with Premiere via dynamic link. Then rendering, which defeats more beginners than any creative technique: which format, which codec, why the file is four gigabytes, and why it will not play on the client's laptop.
What You'll Learn at a Glance
- Navigate compositions, layers, and the timeline without getting lost
- Animate with keyframes, easing, and timing that feel deliberate
- Build titles and lower thirds as reusable brand assets
- Animate a logo
- Animate text and shapes
- Use masks and mattes for simple compositing
- Render a file that plays on the machine it is going to
Details
Duration
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this class and no animation experience is assumed. Basic computer skills are expected. Some video editing familiarity helps but is not required. You will need Adobe After Effects installed before the first session; we send information about access, student discounts, and trials beforehand.
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Tuition
Adobe After Effects Beginners (Level 1) 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.