From the course: After Effects CS5 Essential Training

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Touring the interface

Touring the interface

Before we get much further, I want to give you a little tour of the interface of After Effects. Basically, you need to know your way around here. It really will help you become a more efficient user of the program. We have already talked about the Project panel and few other panels, and basically, that is the overall theme of After Effects' Interfaces that we have the series of Docked panels. By Docked, I mean they are grouped together. If you put your cursor in between two panels, you'll get a little divider, like this. This will allow you to resize panels, either from left to right, or up and down here. If you put your cursor in between a spot where three or more panels meet together, where they intersect, you'll get one of these little icons. It allows you just to resize the interface however you'd like. Now, when you put your cursor over a panel, you'd hit the Tilde key. That's the little squiggle that's above the Tab key, to the left of the number one on your keyboard. If you…

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