Course outline
Setting up custom preferences• Making decisions for the most important preferences
Animation
• Understanding animation rules
• Understanding Velocity and Influence
• Using the Speed graphs to perfect timing
Compositing
• Adjustment effects & colour correction
• Channel effects
• Smart Mask interpolation
• Auto-tracing Movies
• Keying tools
• Matte Tools
Motion tracking & image stabilising
• Tracking position and rotation
• Using Mocha to track motion
• Stabilising shaky footage
• Perspective corner pinning
Time-based effects
• Slow motion techniques / stop frames
• Time stretching, ramping and blending
• Animating footage to audio
Basic expressions and scripting
• Basic Expression commands
• Linking properties together
• Applying simple arithmetic
• Randomising properties
Paint
• Repairing images and movies
• Stop-frame animation techniques
• Write-on text effects and other tricks
Intermediate 3D & parenting
• Animating in 3D space
• Independent keyframing of x,y,z values
• Tricks with Lights
• Tricks with Cameras
Effects
• Effects categories explained
• Combining effects successfully
• Favourite effects
• Speeding up your workflow
• Working with Proxies
Shape Layers
Puppet Tool
Brainstorm

