From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 02 Basic Animation
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Creating a composition - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 02 Basic Animation
Creating a composition
Before we make a new composition, I'm going to select the Comps folder. That way the new comp I create will automatically be sorted inside this folder. Now there are various ways of making a new comp: you can go under the Composition menu, select New Composition, or use the shortcut, Command+N on Mac, Ctrl+N on Windows. I'd like to use the button at the bottom of the Project panel: Create a new Composition. Whichever method you use, the Composition Settings dialog will open. Now the first thing we'll want to do is give our composition a useful name. No, Comp 1 is not useful name. So let's call this First Animation. You'll notice the composition dialog has two tabs: Basic and Advanced. We'll look at some of the advanced features later in this series. For now, let's just focus on the Basic tab. Here is where you select the Width, Height, Pixel Aspect Ratio, and Frame Rate, and these settings can all be saved as a preset. You'll notice there's a lot of presets that are already included…
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