Animation and Montage

Overview
Animation and Montage is a 15-hour course covering two industry-standard Adobe applications: After Effects and Premiere Pro. You will learn motion graphics, compositing, and animation in After Effects, then move into professional video editing and finishing in Premiere Pro.
From building compositions and animating with keyframes to keying, motion tracking, multi-cam editing, color grading, and audio finishing, the course follows a practical, project-based path with hands-on exercises including an infographic, a product offer, a report, and a podcast edit. CIS College is Lebanon’s largest private vocational college, founded in 1991, with branches across the country.
What You Will Learn
- Build and animate compositions in After Effects using keyframes and transforms
- Work with masks, mattes, shape layers, and solid layers
- Add 3D layers, cameras, and lights, and export finished videos
- Apply keying, rotoscoping, and motion and camera tracking
- Use adjustment layers, effects, pre-comps, time remapping, and the puppet tool
- Edit and trim footage in Premiere Pro, including multi-cam workflows
- Work with text, captions, transitions, and Motion Graphics Templates
- Finish projects with audio effects and color grading
Course Curriculum
| Module | What you cover |
|---|---|
| Introduction to After Effects | Panels and interface, creating a composition, importing and animating an image, keyframes and transforms |
| Interface Tools and Linking | Viewport and timeline controls, importing Illustrator and Photoshop files, parenting and linking properties, easing and the graph editor |
| Masks and Mattes | Masks, pen and shape tools, alpha and luma mattes, solid and shape layers, saving and collecting the project (Infograph project) |
| Parallax and Cameras | 3D layers, cameras and lights, exporting videos through the render queue |
| Keying and Rotoscoping | Keying, rotoscoping, brush, eraser and clone tools, blending modes |
| Adjustment Layers and Effects | Adjustment layers, layer styles, effects (Product Offer project) |
| Effects | Continued work with effects |
| Pre-Comps and Tracking | Pre-compositions, time remapping, motion and camera tracking, stabilization |
| Puppet Tool and Text | Puppet tool, pan behind tool, null objects, text tool and properties, presets |
| Introduction to Premiere Pro | Panels and interface, creating a sequence, importing and trimming video, toolbar |
| Multi-Cam Editing | Multi-cam, editing techniques, source and program monitors, effects control, saving projects (Report project) |
| Text and Audio | Working with text, speed duration, audio gain, time remapping, captions |
| Motion Graphics Templates | After Effects and Premiere integration, motion graphics templates, essential graphics (podcast edit project) |
| Transitions and Keying | Audio and video transitions, keying, video effects |
| Finishing | Audio effects and color grading |
Requirements
- Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro, version 2021 or newer (latest version recommended)