after effects education

[Frank Hardie]

I believe there may be classes available at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.

Computmatics, in West Los Angeles run certificate-level courses (3 levels) in After Effects.

These are just two of the numerous results of a Google search. It seems there are a lot of available courses running in Los Angeles. You’d have to look into which ones are Adobe certified, then decide which one is for you.

In the meantime, you can get a good head start by going through the tutorials, here at the Cow. Some of the tutorials will teach you skills that won’t be covered by any formal training course.

[Nick Ito]

when a class is adobe certified is it the equivalent to say a microsoft certification for pc techs?

i have been following the turorials here and find them very helpful i even copped a year long subscription to lynda.com for AE
i grasp many of the tools now and am trying to better understand the capabilities of the effects.

one thing i am trying to sharpen up on is the camera… i get the basics but at points i lose control of the camera and cant quite figure out what i did wrong.

ill check into some of those schools.
thanks for your help

[Frank Hardie]

[shogun3001] “when a class is adobe certified is it the equivalent to say a microsoft certification for pc techs?”

In a word, yes.

[shogun3001] “one thing i am trying to sharpen up on is the camera… i get the basics but at points i lose control of the camera and cant quite figure out what i did wrong.”

The camera is also one of my problem areas. I came across an expression that allows you separate control over the x, y and z positions of the camera. I haven’t tried it yet, but here it is, in case you want to try it out.

(The source of the following expression is unknown to me.)

Get a null and name it MOVER add three sliders to it and name them X, Y and Z.

Apply this expression to the position of your camera.

x = thisComp.layer(“MOVER”).effect(“X”)(“Slider”);
y = thisComp.layer(“MOVER”).effect(“Y”)(“Slider”);
z = thisComp.layer(“MOVER”).effect(“Z”)(“Slider”);
[x, y, z];

you now have independent control of the X, Y and Z.

[Nick Ito]

i have just now started to grasp that concept man…
lol.
i have also been messing around with cinema 4d…
why is it that cinema4d’s camera seem so much easier to work with.
im starting to think i may do most of my camera work in there and import it into AE.

in the meantime thanks again for your help.

Shogun