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Importing Illustrator and Photoshop files in After Effects - Final Cut Pro Tutorial
From the course: Final Cut Pro X Guru: Motion Graphics in Motion and After Effects
Importing Illustrator and Photoshop files in After Effects
- After Effects allows several possiblities for importing both Photoshop and Illustrator files. Let's see how we can easily import these files into the project panel. So there's no project to start off or composition to start off for this exercise. So with your After Effects Chapter 4 lesson's project selected in the project panel, let's double-click. Go to our Desktop. You'll see that in your FCPX guru Motion Projects in Motion and After Effects folder there's an Assets for Import. We're going to bring in the clock_2.psd first. If we bring it in as is, it will come in baked or merged as a footage file where we won't have access to the layers. Along with this are two additional options. One that's set to composition, the other which is composition retained layer sizes. What composition does is it allows us to have access to each of the individual Photoshop layers and also placed within a composition where each of the layers' anchor points are dead-centered to the composition…
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Options for sending clips to After Effects2m 46s
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Keeping your projects organized3m 26s
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Working in real time1m 59s
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Working with and animating After Effects text with presets7m 53s
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Animating After Effects text manually5m 43s
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The power of After Effects shapes7m 51s
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Importing Illustrator and Photoshop files in After Effects4m 36s
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Animating an Photoshop file in After Effects7m 54s
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Adding a 3D camera to the logo animation8m 25s
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Options for animating Illustrator files2m 50s
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Exporting a logo animation to FCP X2m 10s
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Replacing or connecting After Effects projects in the FCP X timeline3m 18s
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Using Automatic Duck AEX import7m 56s
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Timesaving techniques in After Effects2m 34s
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