From the course: Video and Audio for Designers with Creative Cloud: Part 1

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Understanding comps

Understanding comps

From the course: Video and Audio for Designers with Creative Cloud: Part 1

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Understanding comps

- [Instructor] Simply put, the basic building blocks within After Effects are compositions. All of the different footage items that we bring into After Effects, and by that, I mean things like movies, and maybe Photoshop files, Illustrator files, and more besides. They get wrapped up in compositions. And just as you may work with smart objects and layers inside of Photoshop, for example, After Effects is very similar, and compositions can themselves contain other compositions as well. As you'll see in the next chapter, where we'll build a lower third. But I'll just make a composition now very quickly by going to Composition, and New Composition. And I'm actually going to click through this, because we look at this in the next chapter, and you don't really need to work along with this in this particular chapter, 'cause this is more of an overview of what things are. And you'll see here that I'm in a composition called Comp 1, because I didn't name it, and it's here in my Project panel…

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