AI for Video & Motion Graphics Course Online (Self-Paced)

This course shows how generative AI fits into a real production pipeline. You learn to write prompts that produce consistent moving-image results, compare and choose between video, image, and audio models, and generate assets such as concept frames, b-roll, voiceover, and music. The AI features built into Adobe Creative Cloud are covered as well, including Generative Extend, Firefly video, Content-Aware Fill, Enhance Speech, auto-reframe, and scene edit detection.

The course also uses AI coding assistants to write scripts that automate repetitive post-production tasks such as batch renaming, versioning, and render queues. Because client work carries legal risk, you study commercial licensing, copyright, likeness consent, and disclosure practices alongside the creative tools. You finish with an AI-enhanced video piece and documentation of the models, prompts, and techniques behind it.

What You Will Learn

• Write prompts that produce repeatable video, image, and audio results
• Compare and select generative models for each task
• Generate concept frames, b-roll, voiceover, and music
• Use AI tools in Premiere Pro and After Effects, including Generative Extend and Content-Aware Fill
• Automate post-production tasks with scripts written using AI coding assistants
• Apply licensing, copyright, consent, and disclosure practices to client work
• Document an AI production workflow so results can be reproduced
• Complete an AI-enhanced capstone video

Course Outline

Section 1: Intro to Generative AI & Creative Workflows

• 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