AI Video & Motion Graphics Bootcamp (Self-Paced)

Learn to edit professional-quality videos at your own pace. This self-paced course guides you from importing footage to advanced editing techniques such as multi-cam editing and green screen removal.

• Edit video and audio efficiently in Adobe Premiere Pro
• Clean up background noise and improve audio quality
• Color correct video footage using adjustment layers
• Add B-roll to enhance storytelling and visual interest
• Import photos, logos, and animate them within your projects
• Apply transitions between clips for smooth flow
• Export videos optimized for social media or client delivery
• Master multi-cam editing for dynamic scenes
• Remove green screens using chroma keying
• Learn when and how to use various editing tools and techniques
• Adjust audio levels for balanced sound
• Control footage timing: speed up, slow down, or freeze-frame
• Resize videos and create square formats for platforms like Instagram
• Incorporate After Effects compositions into Premiere Pro for advanced effects

Expand your Premiere Pro toolkit, self-paced, with custom transitions, light leaks, picture-in-picture, richer sound, action editing, and vertical video.

• Design your own transitions
• Layer in light leaks and other visual effects
• Set up picture-in-picture shots
• Add ambient tracks and sound effects
• Cut sports highlights and fight scenes
• Remap time for dramatic pacing
• Format vertical video for social feeds

Learn to create professional motion graphics and visual effects using Adobe After Effects. This course covers animation techniques, text effects, and file integration to help you build engaging video content.

• Gain a clear understanding of the After Effects workflow and master key transform properties: position, scale, rotation, and opacity
• Animate photos, text, and graphics using timeless animation principles to craft dynamic motion graphics
• Use masks and track mattes to add creative visual effects to your videos
• Import and animate Photoshop, Illustrator, and audio files seamlessly within your projects
• Export high-quality videos using essential render settings and expressions

Level up your After Effects animation at your own pace with 3D compositions, custom shapes, reusable text presets, expressions, and sound-synced motion.

• Set up 3D compositions with cameras and lights
• Animate custom shapes drawn with the Pen tool
• Fine-tune easing in the Graph Editor
• Create text animations and save reusable presets
• Connect properties with expressions
• Sync motion to sound with audio markers

Merge graphics with live-action video, self-paced, using Mocha AE and the Point Tracker, chroma keying, rotoscoping, stabilization, and Content-Aware Fill.

• Attach elements to moving footage with the Point Tracker and Mocha AE
• Place 2D and 3D graphics into live-action shots
• Smooth out camera shake
• Pull clean chroma keys from green screen footage
• Rotoscope subjects and create track mattes
• Speed up or slow down action with time remapping
• Erase distracting objects with Content-Aware Fill

Produce original work for a professional demo reel, self-paced, while learning motion design principles, industry background, and self-promotion.

• Use core principles of motion design and editing
• Move projects from idea to finished piece
• Produce original work for your demo reel
• Learn how the video and motion graphics fields evolved
• Understand where editing and motion design overlap
• Present your reel and act on feedback
• Promote yourself and evaluate job opportunities

Learn how to integrate generative AI into your video and motion graphics projects. This course covers AI-powered asset creation, workflow development, and the legal implications of AI-generated content.

• Understand how generative AI tools work and how they apply to creative production
• Use AI to support each stage of a motion design/video project: research, scripting, design, animation, audio, and delivery
• Prompt effectively across different AI tools (text, image, audio, video) for usable results
• Create AI-enhanced visual assets, scripts, voiceovers, and animatics
• Generate and run basic JavaScript/ExtendScript code using ChatGPT to automate repetitive tasks in Adobe Creative Cloud apps
• Deliver a short motion graphics or video piece enhanced by AI tools from start to finish

• Use Claude Code as a practical coding assistant for planning, editing, debugging, and shipping apps
• Build confidence with Git, GitHub, and collaborative development workflows
• Understand the structure of modern web apps across frontend, backend, APIs, and deployment
• Create full-stack projects with Next.js, Supabase, authentication, and third-party APIs
• Improve app quality with responsive design, accessibility, testing, and security practices
• Deploy a finished application with environment variables, a custom domain, and launch-ready polish

As a self-paced learner, launch two web applications that serve video and motion graphics teams, built with AI coding tools and documented as case studies.

• Select two of six project tracks
• Outline what each application needs to do
• Write software with help from AI coding tools
• Include a database, user authentication, and hosting
• Launch both applications on the web
• Address a real need in video or motion graphics work
• Write a case study for each application

Demonstrate your full skill set in one finished video, built on your own schedule from concept and planning through editing, compositing, color, and sound.

• Decide on a concept and visual direction
• Prepare a moodboard and style frames
• Map the piece out in a storyboard and animatic
• Bring the project to life in Premiere Pro and After Effects
• Blend compositing, color, and sound
• Revise your video after milestone reviews