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Tips for adding content to compositions - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects CS5 Essential Training
Tips for adding content to compositions
Because adding content from the Project panel to your composition - in other words, inside the Time Line panel here - is something you are going to be doing all the time, I want to give you a few more tips on how you can do that more effectively. First of all, if you wanted to add a layer, we are going to add this Hansel and Petal flowers.psd layer to our Time Line. If you want to add this layer quickly and easily, at the top of the layer stack and centered in the Composition panel, in other words in your view, then you can hit Command+Question Mark or Ctrl+Question Mark. It's actually Command+Forward Slash or Ctrl+Forward Slash, but that's the button with the question mark on it. And that adds it's, again, perfectly centered and at the top of the layer stack. It also makes it so that the layer begins at the first frame. And most of the time, this is how you'll want layers to come in. I am just going to undo that by hitting Command+Z or Ctrl+Z on the PC, but there are many times when…
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