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Bringing elements into After Effects - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects CS5 Essential Training
Bringing elements into After Effects
The first step in any After Effects project is that we want to bring stuff into After Effects. We call this process Importing. Now there are many ways to import files. We could go to File > Import > File, or we could also right-click inside the Project panel and choose Import > File. We could also choose Multiple Files. We could import recent footage. But the easiest way to import is to simply find a blank spot in the Project panel, like this area down here, and just double-click. Now inside the Exercise Files, if you're following along, there is a Media folder. This contains all of the folders for the different types of media that we'll use throughout this training series organized, sorted by category. So, go to the Video folder, and you'll find two files here: PRECOMP background and PRECOMP video. Now we could select one of them and click Open. We could also double-click one of them to bring things into the Project panel. As you can probably see, there are multiple ways to do most…
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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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