From the course: Documentary Photo Techniques with Photoshop and After Effects
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Creating compositions
From the course: Documentary Photo Techniques with Photoshop and After Effects
Creating compositions
- A composition is essentially like a sequence in a video editing tool but typically, most After Effects users will keep an individual shot in one composition. Now, you can put as many shots as you want and essentially do editing but most people will reserve the editing aspects for when they get back to a tool like Premier Pro or Final Cut Pro. Rather in After Effects, just set up an individual clip. By putting each photo into its own comp, it's very easy to control the movement and the speed and other key settings. Let me show you how this works. One way to create a comp, is to choose, Composition, New Composition. This'll bring up a dialog and allow you to name the file, assign dimensions and a frame rate and you can do that easily with the pop up preset menu. That's fine but what I'd like to do here is make a more global change. So, I'll click, Cancel. Let's start with the color folder here. We'll select these four images and drag them onto the New Composition icon. Now, it gives…
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