From the course: After Effects Guru: Work Faster and Boost Performance
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Setting the work area - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Guru: Work Faster and Boost Performance
Setting the work area
- Now, sometimes a project you're working on, you're really only going to be concerned about a specific portion. Maybe you only want to preview a certain area of the animation. Well, this can be quite useful if you take advantage of the work area. Now you've seen this a few times, but I want to show you how you can work with it faster. Now, it's quite simple. Just drag through the composition until you get to the part that you want to use. And maybe here, it's the building on here. So I'll press B for beginning of the work area. Then just drag your play head to the end where you want to stop. Now you can press the N key for end. The B and the N key are right next to each other on a standard keyboard. Now, by default, when you invoke the preview, it's going to do that for the work area. You might have to choose that under the RAM preview or preview controls there, so just select work area. Now, when you invoke the preview, whether that be a RAM preview or a media disc cache preview…
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