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Manipulating and customizing workspaces

Manipulating and customizing workspaces - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 01 CC Pre-Roll

Manipulating and customizing workspaces

- The layout of your user interface, which panels and frames you have open, how you have them arranged, and how you have them sized, is referred to as a workspace. After Effects comes with several preset workspaces, and as of version 13.6 and later, they appear in something known as a workspace bar. Previously, there was a menu to click on up here. Now, you can quickly click on names of proper workspaces and change in between them. Whenever a panel does not have room to display all of your available options, there's an Overflow menu. In this case, the workspace Overflow menu reveals several other preset workspaces, plus the ability to edit which workspaces appear on the bar, plus the ability to duplicate or delete workspaces. Whenever you've chosen one of these main workspaces, underneath its options menu is the ability to reset it to its original layout. That's very helpful if you've created a mess, or if someone else has been playing with your computer. If you've made a modification…

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