After+Effects+Resources

 Key Concepts:
 * AE (and most other video type) projects are a collection of files, not a single project file- keep files organized
 * Compositions are analogous to scenes in a movie, small subsets of larger movie. A project can contain many compositions.
 * Most anything that can be adjusted, can be adjusted over time. Learn what a keyframe does!

 topics to cover:  Interface  Adding text  Adding audio   Adding marks   basics of moving objects around in time  keyframes  Precomp  



 **Interface**- very complex, dont get lost Click on different areas to highlight, helps show what is active. <span style="color: #383838; display: block; font-family: gotham,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> **Project panel** <span style="color: #383838; display: block; font-family: gotham,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Like in Premiere, shows a list of all the stuff in your project  <span style="color: #383838; display: block; font-family: gotham,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> AE uses Compositions instead of sequences  <span style="color: #383838; display: block; font-family: gotham,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> **Time line**  <span style="color: #383838; display: block; font-family: gotham,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Similar to layers panel in Photoshop mashed up with time line in Premiere  <span style="color: #383838; display: block; font-family: gotham,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Left side shows visibility  <span style="color: #383838; display: block; font-family: gotham,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Vert placement determines visibility  <span style="color: #383838; display: block; font-family: gotham,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> In time line, shaded boxes indicate when the object exists in time, can be trimmed like in premiere  <span style="color: #383838; display: block; font-family: gotham,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> **Composition panel**  <span style="color: #383838; display: block; font-family: gotham,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Work space. Tied to timeline, click on objects in either to highlight and bounding box

<span style="color: #383838; display: block; font-family: gotham,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> **Info panel**- information related to what is highlighted <span style="color: #383838; display: block; font-family: gotham,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> **Preview panel**- shuttle controls, play button- ram preview to show comp, render line shows ready or not

<span style="color: #383838; display: block; font-family: gotham,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> **Toolbar-** sections <span style="color: #383838; display: block; font-family: gotham,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Selections, cameras, shape and vector creation, paint tools, warp and roto tools

<span style="color: #383838; display: block; font-family: gotham,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Lets add some text <span style="color: #383838; display: block; font-family: gotham,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Use text tool to type in some text <span style="color: #383838; display: block; font-family: gotham,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In layer portion of time line, open disclosure triangle and transform <span style="color: #383838; display: block; font-family: gotham,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Note all the parameters that can be keyframed <span style="color: #383838; display: block; font-family: gotham,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Click on position stopwatch to insert a keyframe at beginning of timeline <span style="color: #383838; display: block; font-family: gotham,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Move playhead over 1 sec (show multiple ways of doing this) <span style="color: #383838; display: block; font-family: gotham,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Use selection tool to grab text in comp window and move to another location <span style="color: #383838; display: block; font-family: gotham,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Note that another keyframe is added, and red line tracing path <span style="color: #383838; display: block; font-family: gotham,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Add a few more movements, note path is interpolated and smoothed

<span style="color: #383838; display: block; font-family: gotham,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Add audio- add markers control-8 <span style="color: #383838; display: block; font-family: gotham,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Pre comp selected layers to move as group NAME IT! Use right click <span style="color: #383838; display: block; font-family: gotham,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Right and left bracket to set in and out point in timeline of selected object Exporting:

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