From the course: After Effects CS5 Essential Training
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How After Effects projects work - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects CS5 Essential Training
How After Effects projects work
Now we ready need to take a closer look and see how After Effects projects work. We know a little bit about the Project panel, so I don't want to rehash that, but we do need to talk about projects. First of all, step one File > Save. Beware of saving your project. This is absolutely critical. It goes without saying, but make sure that you save often. After Effects crashes. It crashes all the time. So, more than like regular programs like Microsoft Word or something like that, that might feel a little bit more stable, even more than like Photoshop or something, After Effects crashes very frequently. And there are tons of things that can make it crash. So, always save your work. As a matter of fact, what you could do is go under the Preferences and set up Auto Save, which I recommend doing as well. Now when you create an After Effects project, and you bring things into the project like you import objects, you import video or whatever like we have here, - I've got tons of video and…
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