From the course: After Effects CS5 Essential Training
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After Effects workflow overview - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects CS5 Essential Training
After Effects workflow overview
In this chapter, we're just going to jump into After Effects and get comfortable with it. We're going to start by going through this little project here, and here is what the completed project will look like. (Video Playing) (Female Speaker: You just can't beat Hansel and Petal. (Video Playing) (Female Speaker: I love this place. I absolutely love it!) Very nice little commercial for Hansel and Petal there, and we're going to go through that in this chapter. But before we even we jump into that, I wanted to give you one little movie where we look at the entire workflow in After Effects, just to give you some reference for where you are in the process. The first step is, basically, we bring in elements from our hard drive, and we bring those into the Project panel here. Now we'll talk more in depth about the Project panel, as well as every step along the way, deeper as we go through this training series. But I just want to get you acquainted, so you have some frame of reference for…
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After Effects workflow overview2m 18s
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Bringing elements into After Effects2m 23s
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Adding elements to the Timeline1m 57s
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Working with layers3m 45s
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Creating animation with presets3m 24s
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Applying effects3m 34s
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Creating animation without presets5m 38s
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Previewing your work2m 46s
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Exporting content as a movie file2m 29s
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