From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 04 Layer Control

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Using the Effects & Presets panel

Using the Effects & Presets panel - After Effects Tutorial

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Using the Effects & Presets panel

In the next few movies I would like to show you a little bit more about applying effects and how to use effects presets. I want to go ahead and do a Close All again just to clean up my display and if you have the Exercise Files that come with this lesson I'm going to open up the comp 10-Adobe's Preset*starter. If you're following along using the After Effects Apprentice book, I'm going to go through these things in a little different order than they are in the book, but I am going to cover the exact same concepts. If you don't have the Exercise Files, just create a comp with a piece of footage for now and we'll play around with that. There are two ways to apply effects to a selected layer or layers in After Effects. One is to use the Effect menu. It does give a nice hierarchical menu of all these different effects. The problem with this menu is that if you have a very specific effect you know you want to use but you can't remember which category or submenu that it's in, you can spend…

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