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Adding elements to the Timeline

Adding elements to the Timeline

So, now that we've imported some stuff into our project, we're now ready to add it to a Composition. So, open up the Video folder to reveal the assets here. Now, a moment ago I referred to this as stuff, generically, which is not the technical term. Typically, in After Effects, we refer to anything that you bring into the Project panel as assets or footage. So, in the real world, footage refers to video, but in After Effects, even if it's a still image, it's footage. If it's audio file, it's footage. If it's a Photoshop document, Illustrator document, it's all footage. Again, the term asset is also a synonym for this as well. So, either/or. That's what I'm referring to. So, what I'm going to do here. I want to grab the PRECOMP background, just click and drag it down to the bottom of our layers here. That becomes the background. It's just as easy as that. Now actually, it didn't go where I wanted it to go. So, what I'm going to do is just grab it and drag it down to the layer stack…

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