Managing compositions - After Effects Tutorial

- [Voiceover] In this movie, we're going to talk about what a composition is, and show you a little bit about how to navigate its panels on After Effects. First thing I'm going to do is close the Footage panel that I'd opened in the previous movie. You'll see that some panels still have a small X to close them, but all panels have an Options menu that allow you to close that panel. A composition is two things. It is your visual display of your combination of different footage items, your different assets in your project, and it's also a timeline where you can sequence these assets over time, have them turn on, turn off, animate across the screen, et cetera. There's a couple different ways to create a brand new composition. I can go to the Composition menu and choose New Composition. There's also a new comp button down at the bottom of the Project panel. And indeed, a common way of creating a composition is to select a piece of footage that might be your main background in your comp…