A Step-By-Step Training Course for Filmmakers, Editors and Online Content Creators
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Filmeditingpro – The Art of VFX & Graphics for Editors Complete Bundle
What’s in the Course?
Beginner to advanced training
After Effects Essentials
- Basic After Effects training for beginners
- 68 lessons with 13+ hours of training
- Downloadable video and image assets to follow along
Visual Effects Training
- 49 lessons with roughly 14+ hours of training
- Downloadable footage, VFX shots & plates
- Learn keying, rotoscoping, object replacement, 3D tracking, green screens, compositing and more
Motion Graphics Training
- 49 lessons with roughly 14+ hours of training
- Downloadable footage & image assets
- Create commercial graphics, brand graphics, animated maps, charts, websites, 2.5D imaging and more
Real Hollywood Instructors
Get a unique opportunity to learn exactly how a professional editor works
Decades of combined experience.
Get access to cutting-edge training from some of the best editors working in the entertainment industry right now.
We’ve taken years of combined editing experience and compiled the best secrets, editing strategies, techniques, workflows and shortcuts.
Real World Practice Projects
Learn inside a “Digital Obstacle Course”
We’ve provided footage with strategically-designed challenges that will require certain types of visual effects or graphics to make them work. Just like you’ll encounter in the real world with your own projects.
You’ll follow along with us as we explain each challenge and walk you through exactly how to create the effects and graphics you need.
Downloadable 4K Footage, Images & Projects
- 4 custom film shoots worth of footage
- Hand-picked source images designed for graphics and VFX work
- Our After Effects projects to use as “cheat sheets” in case you get stuck
Learn VFX and Graphics with Adobe After Effects
“A motion design software app that lets you create amazing visual effects for film, TV, video, and the web.”
This training requires a student to have a copy of Adobe After Effects.
Adobe After Effects is the most widely used and accessible program to create visual effects and motion graphics.
It interfaces with other popular Adobe programs like Photoshop and Illustrator, and your finished work can be imported into any editing software.
You will need a beginner to intermediate level knowledge of After Effects.
Not familiar with the program? Don’t worry.
For those brand new to the software, we have an optional After Effects Essentials course to get you familiar and serve as a reference library for any questions while moving through the VFX or Graphics training.
After Effects Essentials
A 68-lesson beginner training course and reference library
MODULE 1: INTRODUCTION
Lesson 1: Welcome to After Effects Essentials
Lesson 2: How this Course Works + Your Downloads
MODULE 2: GETTING STARTED
MODULE 3: WORKING WITH COMPOSITIONS
MODULE 4: USING LAYERS
MODULE 5: MASKS, MATTES & BLEND MODES
MODULE 6: WORKING WITH KEYFRAMES
MODULE 7: ADVANCED SHAPES & TEXT
MODULE 8: PARENTING & EXPRESSIONS
MODULE 9: BUILT-IN TOOLS & EFFECTS
MODULE 10: WORKING IN 3D
MODULE 11: RENDERING & EXPORTING
MODULE 12: WRAP UP
Visual Effects Training
Lessons designed to teach you skills you can use on any project
MODULE 1 | INTRODUCTION
Lesson 1: Welcome to The Art of VFX & Graphics for Editors
An overview of the course and everything that you’ll be learning in the next 40+ lessons
Length 1:32
Lesson 2: Why do Editors Need to Know VFX & Graphics?
Meet your trainer and learn why this will make you a much more valuable editor
Length 2:45
Lesson 3: How This Course is Organized & Downloading Your Files
An overview of how the training is organized and what you’ll need to do to prepare for the first project
Length 4:12
MODULE 2 | PROJECT 1 PREPARATION
Lesson 4: Project Brief – Green Screens, Tracking & Monsters…Oh My!
You’ll be learning about your first client, their project and the various VFX shots they need delivered
Length 5:36
Lesson 5: Prepping and Exporting Shots for VFX
We begin the project by learning how to prep an editing timeline to bring the shots into After Effects
Length 26:34
Lesson 6: The Role of Color Correction in VFX
In this important lesson we’re going to set up our LUTs and learn the proper workflow for VFX and color correction
Length 14:46
MODULE 3 | TV SCREEN REPLACEMENT & TRACKING
Lesson 7: VFX Shot 2 – Advanced Tracking Using Mocha
In this lesson you will try a more complex track with Mocha to see what works better
Length 22:01
Lesson 8: Advanced Tracking Using 3D Tracker Camera
We’re going to level up the tracking using a tool native to After Effects and see how it works for our scene
Length 13:08
Lesson 9: How to Fix Common Tracking Problems
We’ll tackle some common issues you might run into using the 3D tracker to clean up our shot
Length 16:07
Lesson 10: Compositing & Rotoscoping Techniques
In this lesson, you’ll be using compositing and rotoscoping techniques to move objects around
Length 18:52
MODULE 4 | PHONE SCREEN REPLACEMENT
Lesson 11: VFX Shot 3 – Planar Tracking & Solving for a Moving Phone Screen
Get to grips with tracking and solving for a moving phone screen
Length 22:38
Lesson 12: Building a Fake Phone Interface
Learn how to build a fake phone interface, and some shortcuts to make the process faster
Length 23:04
Lesson 13: Animating a Fake Phone Interface
Improve your fake phone interface by animating it in sync with the actor’s movements
Length 11:08
Lesson 14: Keying Out the Phone Screen
Understand how to clean up the interface, key out a green screen, fix any issues in post production
Length 23:19
MODULE 5 | DAY FOR NIGHT SHOTS & COMPOSITING
Lesson 15: VFX Shot 4 – Building a Scene by Compositing Multiple Shots Together
Use day for night compositing techniques to make a night shot more impactful
Length 19:00
Lesson 16: Color Correction, Sky Replacement & Lighting Fixes
Take a closer look at modifying a shot with basic masking, color and lighting adjustments
Length 19:16
Lesson 17: Fine-Tuning a Composite & Fixing Edges
Familiarize yourself with some efficient ways to clean up a shot, and make it feel as realistic as possible
Length 19:56
Lesson 18: Exporting Alpha Mattes for Color Correction & Grading
Learn your role in the VFX pipeline, exporting alpha mattes, and delivering the shots for final color
Length 8:31
MODULE 6 | LOGO REPLACEMENT
Lesson 19: VFX Shot 5 – The Best Way to Stabilize Shaky Footage
Get to grips with working on shaky footage, and see how to replace an unwanted brand logo
Length 8:00
Lesson 20: Motion Tracking an Object for Logo Replacement
Improve your skills in motion tracking to get a clean shot for the logo replacement
Length 12:21
Lesson 21: Designing & Blending a Replacement Logo Into the Footage
Use a corporate logo as inspiration to design a replacement using simple tools native to AE
Length 25:14
MODULE 7 | ADDING OBJECTS TO A SCENE WITH VFX
Lesson 22: VFX Shot 6 – 3D Tracking to Add Objects
To fix continuity issues, utilize multiple tricks and add an object back into the scene
Length 13:16
Lesson 23: Compositing the Objects into Our Shot
Understand how to composite objects into a tracked shot to create a realistic look
Length 18:49
MODULE 8 | DESIGNING & COMPOSITING THE ALIEN SHOT
Lesson 24: VFX Shot 7 -Preparing the Alien Shot with Tracking & Rotoscoping
This lesson explores how to prepare and rotoscope an alien character for use in later shots
Length 23:27
Lesson 25: VFX Shot 8 – Creating Glowing Sci-Fi Eyes
We’ll be taking our alien and testing various forms of glow effects throughout the character
Length 16:14
Lesson 26: VFX Shot 9 – Complex Green Screening, Mattes & Spill Suppression
Use green screening techniques to combine the actor and alien character into one scene
Length 28:08
Lesson 27: Stylistic Time Remapping Techniques
Grasp the fundamentals of time remapping to make the end of a scene more exciting
Length 9:29
Lesson 28: Designing a Blurred, Glitchy Teleport Effect
Elevate your time remapping skills by adding some additional effects to the scene
Length 12:15
Lesson 29: Adding Visual Details to the Alien in Post
Improve the alien character with glow effects, animations and your camera to simulate a dolly move
Length 22:59
MODULE 9 | PROJECT 1 WRAP UP
Lesson 30: Client Revisions: Final VFX Tweaks & Clean-Up
Polish the scene with a final clean up, animation refinements, green screen roto and more
Length 18:31
Lesson 31: Rendering & Delivering the Final VFX Shots
Gain an understanding of how to version and finalize your shots for sending back to the edit
Length 5:35
MODULE 10 | PROJECT 2 PREPARATION
Lesson 32: Project Brief – Building a Cinematic Title Sequence
Another client, another project! Learn how to create another important part of all films – a title sequence
Length 3:49
Lesson 33: Prepping Footage in Editing Software for Export
We’ll determine the timing needed for our shots in the edit and set up the raw footage for import
Length 7:58
Lesson 34: Importing Keys Footage Into AE & Creating a Looping Video
Start by importing the prepared footage, and get the frame rates set up for a looping effect
Length 13:45
Lesson 35: Syncing the Footage with Time Remapping
Use your time remapping skills to ensure all clips in the composition are the same length
Length 11:04
Lesson 36: Keying the Keys: Rotobrush vs Extract Effect
Familiarize yourself with two rotoscoping methods, and determine which is best for us
Length 19:24
Lesson 37: Fine-Tuning & Troubleshooting the Mask
Learn how to take roughly cleaned footage and produce a fully cleaned mask
Length 20:57
MODULE 11 | BUILDING A CINEMATIC TITLE SEQUENCE
Lesson 38: VFX Shot 1: Building the Falling Keys Composition
With our masking complete, it’s time to animate the first shot in our title sequence
Length 18:18
Lesson 39: Animating the Keys + Adding Dust & Light Rays
Finish animating the shot and use a handful of effects to create atmosphere
Length 18:36
Lesson 40: VFX Shot 2: Building the Spinning Keys Composition
Jump into a new composition, where you’ll be arranging keys to create variety in the title sequence
Length 12:57
Lesson 41: Building Effects, Vignetting & Tilt Shift
Explore some completely different effects that will add style and polish to shot
Length 14:22
Lesson 42: VFX Shot 3: Building the Array of Keys Composition
For the third shot in the sequence we’ll build on our theme using new effects and camera angles
Length 19:04
Lesson 43: Adding Smoke & Depth of Field
Explore the key principles of adding smoke and depth of field to complete the third shot
Length 15:22
Lesson 44: VFX Shot 4: Building the Sparks & Particles Composition
Learn how to use built-in tools to achieve a sparks effect to go with our locksmith theme
Length 11:25
Lesson 45: Adding Flares, Blurs & Slow Motion
Refine the sparks effect and experiment with flares, blurs and slow motion to create depth
Length 23:49
Lesson 46: VFX Shot 5: Building the Main Title Card
Finish up your title sequence by creating animated text using the film’s theme as inspiration
Length 17:28
Lesson 47: Experimenting with Credit Text Styles & Animations
Examine different ways of animating your credits text to compliment the main title card
Length 19:46
MODULE 12 | PROJECT 2 WRAP UP
Lesson 48: Client Revisions – Cleaning Up the Glue
Understand how to deal with client revisions – in this case, cleaning up our keys
Length 13:36
Lesson 49: Next Steps
Gain an understanding on how to take your learning further
Length 1:17
Graphics Training
Lessons designed to teach you skills you can use on any project
MODULE 1 | INTRODUCTION
Lesson 1: Welcome to The Art of VFX & Graphics for Editors
An overview of the course and everything that you’ll be learning in the next 40+ lessons
Length 1:32
Lesson 2: Why do editors need to know VFX & graphics?
Meet your trainer, and find out why VFX and graphics is essential to securing editing work
Length 2:45
Lesson 3: How This Course is Organized & Downloading Your Files
Take a closer look at how the tutorials have been arranged, and the assets you’ll receive to work with
Length 4:12
MODULE 2 | COMMERCIAL & PROMO GRAPHICS
Lesson 4: Project Brief – Commercial & Promo Graphics
Begin your first project – placing text and animations into different shots for a commercial
Length 2:24
Lesson 5: Graphic 1 – 3D Tracked Text
Start your first motion graphics project with a super useful technique – 3D tracked text on a moving shot
Length 10:56
Lesson 6: Adding Realistic Water Reflections
Learn how to take our tracked text and simulate a realistic water reflection
Length 20:38
Lesson 7: Graphic 2: 2D Tracked Text
Examine another type of tracking, and use it to add text into the second shot of the commercial
Length 20:19
Lesson 8: Graphic 3 – Building an Animated Clock
This lesson will show you how to build and track an animated clock graphic in the world of our footage
Length 24:48
Lesson 9: Adding Animation & Realistic Shadows
Refine your animation and make it feel like it’s anchored in the character’s world with a bit of finesse
Length 6:40
Lesson 10: Graphic 4 – Stabilization & Building a Clean Plate
Discover how to create a clean plate, and use stabilization techniques to prepare your footage
Length 16:17
Lesson 11: Rotoscoping Our Hero & Adding the Text
Finish up your shot by rotoscoping the character in front of the text using several techniques
Length 17:50
Lesson 12: Graphic 5 – Text Tracking with Mocha
Learn how to use Mocha to track and rotoscope the hero character in the next shot
Length 19:23
Lesson 13: Text Masking with Mocha
Broaden your skills in Mocha by making an easier and faster mask for our hero character
Length 11:47
Lesson 14: Graphic 6 – Three Advanced Tracking Methods
Draw on all of your tracking and masking skills for the last graphic, and learn some pro tips and tricks
Length 15:02
Lesson 15: Design, Rotoscoping & Expressions
This lesson focuses on masking and rotoscoping part of a complicated shot
Length 14:52
Lesson 16: Lens Flares, Sliders & Tracking Fixes
Refine your shot by adding some embellishments and final tweaks to the tracking
Length 16:28
MODULE 3 | CORPORATE & BRAND GRAPHICS
Lesson 17: Project Brief – Corporate & Brand Graphics
Explore the world of corporate style graphics, and receive your new client brief
Length 4:09
Lesson 18: Graphic 1 – Animating a Logo
Get started by learning how to rebuild illustrator art in After Effects
Length 15:20
Lesson 19: Designing the Logo Movement
Grasp the fundamentals of animating the shapes that make up our logo
Length 18:43
Lesson 20: Animating the Tagline
Complete your logo animation by adding a tagline, and creating a secondary animation
Length 8:41
Lesson 21: Graphic 2 – Animated Lower Thirds
This lesson teaches you how to create a commonly used graphic – the lower third
Length 15:43
Lesson 22: Adding Style & Creative Accents
Elevate your basic animation by learning how to add style and creative accents
Length 18:14
Lesson 23: Creating After Effects Templates & MOGRTS
Discover how to create After Effects Templates & MOGRTS
Length 19:14
MODULE 4 | ANIMATED MAPS, CHARTS & GRAPHS
Lesson 24: Graphic 3 – Building a Map Animation
Begin the third graphic for your client, which involves building a map animation
Length 6:06
Lesson 25: Adding Locator Graphics to the Map
Learn how we’re going to create our map, and time our locator markers to the narration
Length 11:02
Lesson 26: Moving a 3D Camera Around the Map
Explore how utilizing a camera can add depth and a much more interesting look to this graphic
Length 25:06
Lesson 27: Graphic 4 – Creating an Animated Line Chart
This lesson focuses on a graphic you’ll use often for corporate work – the animated line chart
Length 11:54
Lesson 28: Expressions & Automation of the Line Chart
Improve your line chart with animation, and learn how to line up the values to your narration
Length 21:19
Lesson 29: 3D Animation & Lighting the Line Chart
Finish up the line chart by adding camera movement and 3d lights
Length 4:53
Lesson 30: Graphic 5 – Creating an Animated Bar Graph
Build upon what you’ve learnt creating the line chart to create an animated bar graph
Length 20:11
Lesson 31: Animating Accurate Data Labels with Expressions
Utilize expressions in order to line up our data with the animation
Length 22:01
MODULE 5 | ANIMATED SCREENSHOTS & WEBSITES
Lesson 32: Graphic 6 – Building a 3D Website Fly-Around
In this lesson, you’ll start the final graphic – a web animation that uses all the skills you’ve learned so far
Length 17:02
Lesson 33: Adding Real & Simulated Depth of Field
Leverage the many different properties of the camera tool to create a depth-of-field look
Length 6:32
Lesson 34: Adding Stylish Animated Embellishments
Learn how to create some animations, and use a tilt-shift effect to make our products pop
Length 13:06
Lesson 35: Bonus Graphic – Adding Further Depth & Dimension to the Website
Start work on a new comparison animation for the shopping cart
Length 20:42
Lesson 36: Simulating Handheld Movement & 3D Lighting
Combine expressions, sliders and effects to simulate handheld movement, along with a 3D lighting effect
Length 13:04
MODULE 6 | BRINGING STILL IMAGES TO LIFE
Lesson 37: Project Brief – Bringing Still Images to Life
Receive your new client brief, and learn about some of the techniques used in this module
Length 3:05
Lesson 38: Graphic 1 – Building a Realistic Earth Zoom
We lean how you can use simple tools like Google Earth to begin your map zoom process with accuracy
Length 25:46
Lesson 39: Animating the Earth Zoom
Discover how to use the images you captured to build the animated zoom, and make the shot come to life
Length 24:00
Lesson 40: Adding Details Like Borders, DoF & Animated Water
Refine your map animation with borders, depth of field and animated water
Length 30:29
Lesson 41: Graphic 2 – Creating 2.5D Animated Images
Learn how to transform a still image into something much more interesting, with a 2.5D parallax effect
Length 17:56
Lesson 42: Adding Visual Details Like Fog & Water Spray
Elevate the world of our image with details like water movement, mist and spray
Length 10:14
Lesson 43: Simple Character Animation with the Puppet Tools
Examine the puppet tool and use it to animate our hero character, adding motion to our scene
Length 12:02
Lesson 44: Animated Depth of Field & Camera Movement
Put the final touches on your graphic, with some depth-of-field and camera rotation
Length 8:37
Lesson 45: Graphic 3 – Intro to 3D Camera Projection Mapping
An in depth exploration of how camera 3D projection mapping works
Length 15:13
Lesson 46: Setting Up the 3D Projection Mapping
Learn how to set up the projection mapping in a more complex environment
Length 14:02
Lesson 47: Adding Objects & Dust to the 3D Scene
This lesson will show you how to place a focal object into the shot, and add atmosphere
Length 15:07
Lesson 48: Faking Volumetric Light and Depth of Field in Our 3D Scene
Bring your scene to life by faking volumetric light and depth-of-field
Length 16:02
MODULE 7 | WRAP UP
Lesson 49: Next Steps
Discover how you can take your learning further
Length 1:17
Which “Art of VFX & Graphics for Editors” option is right for you?
OPTION 1:
Through roughly 15 hours of lessons, we’ll be covering a variety of skills that are custom designed to teach you all of the tools for the most common VFX scenarios you’ll run into as an editor. Things like keying, rotoscoping, motion tracking, object replacement, text animation and so much more.
Join Today & Get
- 49 Step-By-Step Visual Effects Lessons
- Downloadable VFX Shots & Plates
- Downloadable Music & SFX for the Final Edits
- After Effects Essentials (Optional Add-on)
OPTION 2:
Over 49 lessons and about 15 hours of training, this course will teach you everything we could think of when it comes to creating motion graphics that any editor can use. You’ll learn how to do corporate style lower thirds and charts, 2.D animations, logos, moving web/app simulations and so much more.
Each of the techniques will teach you the theory behind them which will allow you to apply your new knowledge to any type of project.
Join Today & Get
- 49 Step-By-Step Visual Effects Lessons
- Downloadable Footage & Image Assets
- Downloadable Music & SFX for the Final Edits
- After Effects Essentials (Optional Add-on)
OPTION 3:
COMPLETE PACKAGE
In the Complete Package, you will get both the VFX and Motion Graphics training. That includes every useful thing we could think of when it comes to any scenario an editor could encounter.
In the VFX training package, there are 49 lessons all designed to teach you a skillset that is transferrable to a myriad of situations for film and more.
In the GFX training package, you’ll get another 49 lessons which covers all of the situations that we’ve encountered over the years. Commercial graphics, graphs, charts, maps, and of course the techniques that will spice up any documentary.
Join Today & Get
After Effects Essentials
- Basic After Effects training for beginners
- 68 lessons with 13+ hours of training
- Downloadable video and image assets to follow along
- Normally $497 (Included FREE)
Visual Effects Training
- 49 lessons with roughly 14+ hours of training
- Downloadable footage, VFX shots & plates
- Learn keying, rotoscoping, object replacement, 3D tracking, green screens, compositing and more
Motion Graphics Training
- 49 lessons with roughly 14+ hours of training
- Downloadable footage & image assets
- Create commercial graphics, animated maps, charts, websites, 2.5D imaging and more
Course Features
- Lectures 0
- Quizzes 0
- Duration 10 weeks
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 56
- Assessments Yes