AI for Video & Motion Graphics
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This hands-on hybrid course introduces creative professionals to the power of generative AI in the context of professional motion graphics and video editing workflows. Designed for adult learners with experience in Adobe Creative Cloud tools such as After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, and Illustrator, the course walks participants through a full production pipeline, from concept development to final delivery, using AI tools to enhance efficiency, creativity, and output quality.
Participants will explore a range of AI platforms, including ChatGPT, Midjourney, Leonardo.ai, Runway, and more, to support research, scriptwriting, design, animation, sound design, and project delivery. Learners will also gain practical skills in generating custom automation scripts using ChatGPT to streamline workflows in Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects.
Prerequisites
Students should have a basic understanding of video editing and motion graphics design, including terminology, techniques, and common software.
Curriculum
What you'll learn
- 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
Course syllabus
Section 1: Intro to Generative AI & Creative Workflows?
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Topics:
- What is Generative AI? (LLMs, diffusion, transformers, voice cloning, etc.)
- Brief history and rise of creative AI tools
- Ethics, authorship, copyright, and commercial use
- Categories of tools (text, image, audio, video, 3D, automation)
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Tools Introduced:
- ChatGPT (LLM)
- Midjourney / Leonardo.ai (Image Gen)
- ElevenLabs / Descript (Voice AI)
- Runway / Pika (Video AI)
Section 2: Research + Ideation with AI
- Workflow Step: Research & Concept
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Topics:
- Trend identification
- Brainstorming strategies
- Reverse brief generation
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Tools Introduced:
- ChatGPT / Perplexity for research
- Leonardo.ai / Midjourney for visual brainstorming
Section 3: Scriptwriting with AI
- Workflow Step: Script
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Topics:
- Tone, length, and audience control
- Rewriting and editing AI scripts
- Prompting for VO/narrative structure
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Tools Introduced:
- ChatGPT
- ElevenLabs (free tier) for AI VO preview
Section 4: Building the 2-Column Script
- Workflow Step: Style Frames
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Topics:
- Prompt engineering for visual fidelity
- Converting roughs into moodboards
- Editing AI output in Photoshop
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Tools Introduced:
- ChatGPT for formatting AV
- Boords or Google Docs
Section 5: Creating Style Frames with AI
- Workflow Step: Research & Concept
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Topics:
- Trend identification
- Brainstorming strategies
- Reverse brief generation
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Tools Introduced:
- Midjourney or Leonardo.ai
- Photoshop with Generative Fill
Section 6: Storyboarding with AI
- Workflow Step: Storyboard
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Topics:
- Frame-by-frame visualization
- Combining image + script AI
- Limitations of AI storyboards
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Tools Introduced:
- ChatGPT (describe scenes)
- Leonardo.ai / Midjourney (illustrate)
- Boords (organize)
Section 7: Animatics & Rough Animation with AI
- Workflow Step: Animatics & Rough Timing
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Topics:
- AI for timing + pacing
- Motion from stills (experimental)
- Audio-sync with AI
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Tools Introduced:
- Premiere Pro auto-caption/timeline tools
- Runway / Pika / Kaiber
- ChatGPT for pacing logic
Section 8: Final Animation & AI-Assisted Effects
- Workflow Step: Final Animation
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Topics:
- Using AI to assist — not automate — polish
- Object removal, motion tracking, interpolation
- Adobe Sensei in After Effects
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Tools Introduced:
- After Effects (Roto Brush 2, Sensei tracking)
- EbSynth (stylization)
- Photoshop Firefly (cleanup)
Section 9: AI in Sound Design & Mix
- Workflow Step: Sound Mix
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Topics:
- Music generation
- Auto-ducking, remixing
- Voice AI cleanup
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Tools Introduced:
- Adobe Premiere (AI Audio Remix, Auto-duck)
- AIVA / Beatoven / Soundraw (music)
- Descript (voice)
Section 10: Delivery + Metadata with AI
- Workflow Step: Delivery
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Topics:
- Export formatting
- AI for metadata/captions/hashtags
- Platform targeting
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Tools Introduced:
- Adobe Media Encoder (auto-reframe/export)
- ChatGPT for social tags and descriptions
Section 11: Scripting with ChatGPT – Photoshop & Illustrator
- Workflow Step: Research & Concept
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Topics:
- Overview of scripting capabilities in Photoshop & Illustrator
- Prompting ChatGPT to generate JSX scripts
- Automating repetitive tasks (e.g., layer export, batch renaming)
- Running and modifying AI-generated scripts
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Tools Introduced:
- ChatGPT
- Adobe Photoshop + Illustrator (with scripting console)
Section 12: Scripting with ChatGPT – After Effects Automation
- Workflow Step: Research & Concept
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Topics:
- Understanding AE scripting vs. expressions
- Prompting ChatGPT to build reusable automation tools
- Common use cases: layer timing, effect application, motion presetting
- Basics of ScriptUI for creating AE panels
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Tools Introduced:
- ChatGPT
- After Effects (with scripting panel)
- ExtendScript Toolkit or VS Code
What's included
- Adobe Creative Cloud Software (1 month)
- Free course retake within one year to refresh the material and gain practice.
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Live classes
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In-person or live online
Starts at 10:00 · America/New_York (EST); final session ends at 17:00 EST
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In-person or live online
Starts at 10:00 · America/New_York (EDT); final session ends at 17:00 EDT
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In-person or live online
Starts at 10:00 · America/New_York (EDT); final session ends at 17:00 EDT
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In-person or live online
Starts at 10:00 · America/New_York (EDT); final session ends at 17:00 EDT
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In-person or live online
Starts at 10:00 · America/New_York (EDT); final session ends at 17:00 EDT
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In-person or live online
Starts at 10:00 · America/New_York (EST); final session ends at 17:00 EST
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Self-paced course
Learn through recorded lessons on your own schedule.
This course is available for 30 days. You can choose when to start your access period. Once you activate, you will have 30 days to complete it (access the course materials, quizzes, projects and videos). You may request one extension of seven (7) days. Other extension requests will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Videos are not downloadable.
- Tuition
- $695
- Course length
- 12 hours
- Schedule
- On your schedule
This hands-on hybrid course introduces creative professionals to the transformative power of generative AI within professional motion graphics and video editing workflows. Designed for adult learners experienced with Adobe Creative Cloud applications such as After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, and Illustrator, the course guides participants through a complete production pipeline—from concept development to final delivery—leveraging AI tools to improve efficiency, creativity, and production quality.
Participants will explore a variety of AI platforms, including ChatGPT, Midjourney, Leonardo.ai, and Runway, to support tasks such as research, scriptwriting, design, animation, sound design, and project delivery. Learners will also gain practical experience using ChatGPT to generate automation scripts that streamline workflows in Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects.
Self-paced prerequisites
Students should have a basic understanding of video editing and motion graphics design, including terminology, techniques, and common software.
Self-paced curriculum
What you'll learn self-paced
- 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
Self-paced syllabus
Section 1: Intro to Generative AI & Creative Workflows?
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Topics:
- What is Generative AI? (LLMs, diffusion, transformers, voice cloning, etc.)
- Brief history and rise of creative AI tools
- Ethics, authorship, copyright, and commercial use
- Categories of tools (text, image, audio, video, 3D, automation)
-
Tools Introduced:
- ChatGPT (LLM)
- Midjourney / Leonardo.ai (Image Gen)
- ElevenLabs / Descript (Voice AI)
- Runway / Pika (Video AI)
Section 2: Research + Ideation with AI
- Workflow Step: Research & Concept
-
Topics:
- Trend identification
- Brainstorming strategies
- Reverse brief generation
-
Tools Introduced:
- ChatGPT / Perplexity for research
- Leonardo.ai / Midjourney for visual brainstorming
Section 3: Scriptwriting with AI
- Workflow Step: Script
-
Topics:
- Tone, length, and audience control
- Rewriting and editing AI scripts
- Prompting for VO/narrative structure
-
Tools Introduced:
- ChatGPT
- ElevenLabs (free tier) for AI VO preview
Section 4: Building the 2-Column Script
- Workflow Step: Style Frames
-
Topics:
- Prompt engineering for visual fidelity
- Converting roughs into moodboards
- Editing AI output in Photoshop
-
Tools Introduced:
- ChatGPT for formatting AV
- Boords or Google Docs
Section 5: Creating Style Frames with AI
- Workflow Step: Research & Concept
-
Topics:
- Trend identification
- Brainstorming strategies
- Reverse brief generation
-
Tools Introduced:
- Midjourney or Leonardo.ai
- Photoshop with Generative Fill
Section 6: Storyboarding with AI
- Workflow Step: Storyboard
-
Topics:
- Frame-by-frame visualization
- Combining image + script AI
- Limitations of AI storyboards
-
Tools Introduced:
- ChatGPT (describe scenes)
- Leonardo.ai / Midjourney (illustrate)
- Boords (organize)
Section 7: Animatics & Rough Animation with AI
- Workflow Step: Animatics & Rough Timing
-
Topics:
- AI for timing + pacing
- Motion from stills (experimental)
- Audio-sync with AI
-
Tools Introduced:
- Premiere Pro auto-caption/timeline tools
- Runway / Pika / Kaiber
- ChatGPT for pacing logic
Section 8: Final Animation & AI-Assisted Effects
- Workflow Step: Final Animation
-
Topics:
- Using AI to assist — not automate — polish
- Object removal, motion tracking, interpolation
- Adobe Sensei in After Effects
-
Tools Introduced:
- After Effects (Roto Brush 2, Sensei tracking)
- EbSynth (stylization)
- Photoshop Firefly (cleanup)
Section 9: AI in Sound Design & Mix
- Workflow Step: Sound Mix
-
Topics:
- Music generation
- Auto-ducking, remixing
- Voice AI cleanup
-
Tools Introduced:
- Adobe Premiere (AI Audio Remix, Auto-duck)
- AIVA / Beatoven / Soundraw (music)
- Descript (voice)
Section 10: Delivery + Metadata with AI
- Workflow Step: Delivery
-
Topics:
- Export formatting
- AI for metadata/captions/hashtags
- Platform targeting
-
Tools Introduced:
- Adobe Media Encoder (auto-reframe/export)
- ChatGPT for social tags and descriptions
Section 11: Scripting with ChatGPT – Photoshop & Illustrator
- Workflow Step: Research & Concept
-
Topics:
- Overview of scripting capabilities in Photoshop & Illustrator
- Prompting ChatGPT to generate JSX scripts
- Automating repetitive tasks (e.g., layer export, batch renaming)
- Running and modifying AI-generated scripts
-
Tools Introduced:
- ChatGPT
- Adobe Photoshop + Illustrator (with scripting console)
Section 12: Scripting with ChatGPT – After Effects Automation
- Workflow Step: Research & Concept
-
Topics:
- Understanding AE scripting vs. expressions
- Prompting ChatGPT to build reusable automation tools
- Common use cases: layer timing, effect application, motion presetting
- Basics of ScriptUI for creating AE panels
-
Tools Introduced:
- ChatGPT
- After Effects (with scripting panel)
- ExtendScript Toolkit or VS Code
What's included with self-paced
- Adobe Creative Cloud Software (1 month)
- Course workbook
- Self-paced video lessons
Self-paced lessons
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AI for Video & Motion Graphics (Self-Paced)
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Course Introduction
Lesson 1: Foundations
9:18
Introduce the course structure, learning objectives, and how AI fits into the commercial motion graphics and video production pipeline from research through delivery.
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One Prompt, Several Outputs
Lesson 1: Foundations
12:40
Demonstrate how a single text prompt in ChatGPT can generate a project summary, script concept, and visual prompts that feed into Adobe Firefly to rapidly produce concept art.
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Research and Ideation with AI
Lesson 2: Research & Scripting
10:00
Explore how AI tools accelerate the early creative phases — trend research, brainstorming, reverse briefing, and concept validation — by acting as a conversational creative partner.
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From Client Brief to Concept Directions
Lesson 2: Research & Scripting
10:00
Walk through using ChatGPT to analyze a fictional client brand guide, generate audience personas, develop art direction options, and produce early concept imagery in Adobe Firefly.
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Scriptwriting with AI
Lesson 2: Research & Scripting
12:22
Examine how AI tools speed up commercial script drafting by generating tone and audience variations, adapting scripts for different durations and platforms, and why human revision remains essential.
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Drafting and Adapting a Commercial Script
Lesson 2: Research & Scripting
8:48
Demonstrate using ChatGPT to draft a 30-second commercial script from a reverse brief, then adapt it across different tones and durations while organizing versions for team review.
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Building the Two Column AV Script
Lesson 2: Research & Scripting
13:43
Explain the two-column audio/visual script format as a production planning tool and show how AI can convert a written script into a structured AV document.
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Formatting a Script into a Two Column AV Document
Lesson 2: Research & Scripting
6:11
Demonstrate converting an approved script into a three-column AV planning document using ChatGPT, then importing it into a layout tool like Milanote for production review.
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Creating Style Frames with AI
Lesson 3: Visual Development
10:00
Cover prompt engineering frameworks for AI image generation, using tools like Midjourney and Firefly to produce style frames and mood boards that serve the client's communication goals.
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From Script to Style Frames
Lesson 3: Visual Development
10:00
Demonstrate generating AI image prompts from an AV script's visual descriptions, running them through Midjourney with iterative adjustments, and refining outputs in Photoshop.
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Storyboarding with AI
Lesson 3: Visual Development
12:14
Explain how AI tools can accelerate storyboard creation by generating scene descriptions and rough frame visuals, while emphasizing that continuity and shot planning still require human oversight.
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From Script to Storyboard Frames
Lesson 3: Visual Development
13:46
Demonstrate breaking a two-column script into visual beats, generating storyboard-style image prompts in ChatGPT and Midjourney, and assembling them into a storyboard template.
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Animatics and Rough Animation with AI
Lesson 4: Motion & Sound
10:00
Explore how AI tools help bridge the gap between static storyboards and final animation by testing timing, generating motion from stills, and validating pacing before full production.
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Building Animatics with AI
Lesson 4: Motion & Sound
8:22
Demonstrate how to use ChatGPT and Midjourney to convert storyboard frames into rough animated video clips, building animatics faster with AI-generated image-to-video motion sequences.
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Final Animation and AI Assisted Effects
Lesson 4: Motion & Sound
9:39
Explore how AI supports the final visual finishing stage of production, covering cleanup, masking, tracking, stylization, and compositing in After Effects and Premiere Pro.
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AI in Sound Design and Mixing
Lesson 4: Motion & Sound
9:07
Examine how AI tools accelerate audio post-production workflows including music generation, voice cleanup, auto ducking, and dialog enhancement for visual-focused creators.
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AI Sound Effects with Adobe Firefly
Lesson 4: Motion & Sound
6:07
Walk through Adobe Firefly's audio generation tools to create and preview custom sound effects for an animation, building a rough sound effects track alongside video content.
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Delivery and Metadata with AI
Lesson 4: Motion & Sound
10:18
Cover the final delivery stage of the production pipeline, showing how AI assists with content reframing, caption generation, metadata creation, and platform-specific distribution.
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Generative Fill and Expand
Lesson 5: AI in Photoshop & Illustrator
10:00
Demonstrate Photoshop's Generative Fill and Expand features to extend cropped images into 16:9 compositions and prepare still images for video and motion projects.
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Fixing and Enhancing Images
Lesson 5: AI in Photoshop & Illustrator
10:00
Show how to use Photoshop's generative AI tools to fix flawed AI-generated images, remove unwanted elements, and add new AI-generated visual effects to existing photographs.
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Generate Vectors and Turntable
Lesson 5: AI in Photoshop & Illustrator
13:17
Demonstrate Illustrator's Generate Vectors feature for creating scalable vector graphics from text prompts, and the Turntable feature for rotating 2D artwork into 3D perspectives.
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Generative Extend
Lesson 6: AI in Premiere Pro & After Effects
4:04
Show Premiere Pro's Generative Extend feature, which uses AI to add up to two seconds of new video content beyond a clip's end point when footage runs short.
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Auto Ducking and Enhanced Speech
Lesson 6: AI in Premiere Pro & After Effects
6:51
Demonstrate Premiere Pro's AI-powered auto ducking to balance music against dialog, and Enhanced Speech to rebuild and clean up voice recordings.
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Object Masking
Lesson 6: AI in Premiere Pro & After Effects
6:06
Walk through Premiere Pro's AI-powered Object Mask tool to isolate and track specific areas of a video subject for targeted color correction.
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Content Aware Fill
Lesson 6: AI in Premiere Pro & After Effects
5:29
Demonstrate After Effects' Content-Aware Fill to remove unwanted background objects from video by masking, tracking, and letting AI generate replacement imagery.
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Object Matte
Lesson 6: AI in Premiere Pro & After Effects
6:04
Show the Object Matte tool in After Effects to isolate a person from their background using AI-powered edge detection, for use as track mattes or targeted effects.
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