After Effects Training

I’m a firm beleiver of doing it yourself.  In college, I did a lot of reading into different types of software.  Granted, I did major in Production Technology so I did learn a lot in class about video editing and documentry film but the most important thing you can do for yourself is go out there and do it on your own.  Final Cut Pro is where it all started for me.  After mastering FCPS2, another world opened up to me.  Adobe After Effects.  This is some really powerful software.  People who dont really know what this is  completely under estimate its potential.  That being said, the brand new CS4 suite w/o an academic discount is going to run you around $1k.  Or you can do what I like to call… never-mind.

Point of the story is this…  I’m no pro at AE but if you want to learn some basics you have to check out the  Video Copilot  website.  A guy named Andrew Kramer runs this site and you wont believe the crap he comes up with.  It’s pretty impressive.  He offers tutorials that will teach you AE from the ground up.  I’ve done a few of these tutorials and after completeing one or two of them you start to get a good understanding at how AE works and you begin to pick up on tricks that you can use in other projects.  When I was in college, this site was on my top five, and he is still dropping tutorials like every month.  Give it a whirl at http://www.videocopilot.net

September 11, 2009 | Categories: get educated | Tags: 10 free tutorials, adobe, ae, after effects, andrew, andrew kramer, animation, basic training, cs4, effects, evolution, final cut, final cut pro, kramer, online tutorials, riot gear, tutorial, video, video copilot, video effects, videocopilot | Leave a comment