Filmeditingpro – The Art of VFX & Graphics for Editors Complete Bundle

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:

VFX TRAINING

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:

GRAPHICS TRAINING

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

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