Live workshopAdobe Creative Cloud training for teams
Adobe After Effects Beginners (Level 1)
- Built around your actual work
- Live online, or on-site by request
- Training careers nationwide since 2006
Workshop brief
Adobe After Effects Beginners (Level 1)
- 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
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.
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
- 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
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 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.
Outcomes
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
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.
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
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 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.
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.