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Import and work with pictures

Import and work with pictures - After Effects Tutorial

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Import and work with pictures

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- [Instructor] The project window is the hub for all the assets you will work with inside of After Effects. As an editor, you'll often work with numerous stills and video to bring into your edit, but to work with them in After Effects, assets must first be imported into the project window. Here in this movie, we'll take a look at how to import pictures into the project window and set up some simple animation. So there's a number of ways to import assets in After Effects, the first of which is the common File > Import. So we can go to File > Import > File, and we'll get our open dialog box, from which we can select one or more images and import into After Effects this way. Alternately, we can double-click on our project window and do the same functionality. And lastly, we can import via the OS dialog box itself. We can click and drag multiple images and assets into After Effects this way. Now as we start to import in something like PSDs, where we have multiple layers, let's go ahead…

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