Creating a new project

- [Instructor] In this first lesson we'll create a simple…animation of a winter scene.…If you have the Exercise Files, notice that we've given…you the After Effects Project file that you can use…at the end to compare your results with ours.…We've also created a folder of sources…that you can import into a blank project,…and we've also rendered the Finished Movie…from After Effects Project file.…So we can see where what be creating,…let's play this in QuickTime player.…As you can see, it's pretty simple.…There's two foreground video layers, a background video,…and a colored solid along the top.…

The title is in two parts,…one part that animates up from the bottom,…and the snowflake which animates in along a curve.…Now that you're familiar with what we're going to create,…let's open a blank project in After Effects.…I'm using CS5 or, if you have CS4, that'll work as well.…If you already have a project open, you'll need to Save it…and then go File, New, New Project,…and that will give you an untitled project.…When you first open After Effects, it should open this…