From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 16 Creating a Medical Opening Title

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Creating the main composition

Creating the main composition - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 16 Creating a Medical Opening Title

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Creating the main composition

The first thing we need to do is create our composition that we're going to be building everything at. I'm going to select the Comps folder in the project panel to make sure everything I create or import goes into that folder. Then go to Composition>New Composition. The shortcut is Cmd+N on Mac, Ctrl+N on Windows. Before you start any project, always make sure you check with your client and find out what the delivery specifications are. Your life will be much easier if you start at the end, delivery, and work backwards from there. After Effects has a number of HDTV presets in the 1080 line or 1920x1080 preset is common. Just to make your life easier for the sake of working on these exercise files, I'm going to create this at half HD size. I can type in 960 or I can use After Effects' accessibility to do divide 2, having it do the math for me. Double check the Frame Rate. The After Effects' preset is set up for 24 frames a second. However, quite often when the client says 24, they…

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