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If you want to follow along with me guys please open the file.

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Mary Lou for the Craford that AP so that you can come to the menu here file and you see open project

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and you navigate to where you have downloaded your projects from the second lecture.

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I guess you want to open maybe 2 for the graphic.

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This is the fight.

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Click on it.

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De-selected of course and you click on Open Haiti or you can start following along with me.

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In the previous lecture you have seen about the default workspace in this lecture.

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I want to take you around in this workspace.

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And the purpose here is for you to feel extremely familiar with the interface of after effect so you

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can work easily and happily remember aftereffects is all about having fun.

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If you don't have fun if you want to do motion graphics and visual effects very seriously it's not going

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to work.

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So you need to be light hearted you know creative What can you do.

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How can you do things.

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So let's start here.

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The first thing I want to draw your attention to is the top menu in Windows.

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You will start with file in Mac you will start with After Effects.

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He has several options.

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Nevertheless you can see the menu.

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And for every option or for some options you will have a shortcut.

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So if you want to know the shortcut you just come to the option.

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This is control.

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As for save or for new composition for example it's control.

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And so this is our top menu that I will come to very many times until you are very familiar with all

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the shortcuts under the main menu.

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Here you have the toolbar.

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This is where you are going to pick the tools that you are going to use to create your composite or

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the video that you render at the end you have for example the selection tool and the shortcut if you

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point that it use the selection tool and the shortcut is the you have the hand tool that will help you

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move things around.

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If you want to.

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OK.

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And you have the zoom to the rotation tool and all the others that you will be using.

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Now some of these options are very straightforward.

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Just click once and that's it.

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But some of them you can click and long click if you like then you will have many other options.

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So if you want for example to change a tool here you long click and select the right thing.

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Now not just what's happening here.

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When I change tools the options here change I want you to keep an eye on this is pretty important.

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So for rectangle for example you have the feel of the stroke that are highlighted I can use and you

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have the busy path that should keep an eye on it.

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When you're drawing shapes for the text if I long click or resentful and vertical and not that's how

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the correct panel has opened on the left side.

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If you haven't moved it there is the project panel where you will have all the files that you have important

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in after effect listed here and all the compositions that you have create in the middle.

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Over here you'll have your composition of your if you come to the menu.

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You click on photograph for example you see Neukom viewers so you can have a comp viewers if you have

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severe comps that you can preview over here.

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Also you have the small menu that's pretty important later on over here in blue is the name of the composer.

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So within the composition of your you will view exactly what you have put as videos what is happening

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how are the effect behaving and stories like this in the timeline.

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This is where it will be the measured word.

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You'll have two parts the left part.

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Over here you have your layers.

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This is where you are compositing.

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So in this example I have a video that is photograph heard that before I added the shape player added

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a text layer a another layer.

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And of course I can preview them on this site of course we see how to reorder all this on the right

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side.

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It is the timeline.

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You have the timeline indicator.

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If you click on it and scrub through it you can see what's happening in your composition how things

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are behaving.

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And this is where you will have the animation if you press you for example you can see the keyframes

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and how things are being emitted and how they appear.

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You can also come to the time line press spacebar and you can play what is happening in your composition

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or preview the composition itself.

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So this is pretty easy.

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Now about these numbers here these are seconds and frames.

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Now it all depends on the resolution that you are using.

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You could have only seconds low resolution you could have much more than I have if using higher resolution.

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And you can have these is simple.

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This is zero seconds not is the time is over here of the time line indicator.

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If I scrubbed through now I'm on then flames now 20 frames one second.

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So that is how it is when you have 10.

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These are frames when you have 0 1 0 0 F that is seconds.

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You have another seconds here that is two seconds.

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So mainly this is about the default workspace.

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Now you have some manipulation that you can do for the palace for example you can resize it and here

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you are of course both of them are being resized and you can resize vertically you are up and down.

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So you can see more of the timeline and less of the composition of your head for example.

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I take it back here a lot so you can move the panels around for example if you don't like project over

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here you can select it.

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Click on the name and start moving it around.

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You can put it on the right over here or you can be a bit more sophisticated then just put it for example

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on this side extreme right.

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OK.

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So you can see everything that you have depending on what you want to do.

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Let's take back a project and put it on the left again here you are not second move it almost anyway.

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Now you notice these stacked panel group.

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This is a public group.

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Click on one it will open.

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If you click on another one the previous one we closed and the one you clicked on will open.

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Now where did this come from.

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Well if you come to window here these are all the palace you can have in after effects and there are

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very few by the way compared to Photoshop or illustrators.

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And if you want a panel to appear all you have to do is to check it.

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For example I will check brushes are brushes over here.

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Of course you can make it bigger or smaller the size of the way you want.

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You can also click on it and position it anywhere you want within the stacked group palette.

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Now if you close one of them say close brush with close contact or you are closed and you want them

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back.

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All you have to do is to come to a window and say OK check correcter it will appear over here and the

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checker brushes for example.

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Over here it comes over.

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You could of course you can move these to anywhere you want.

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For example you can take brushes and just put it over here and make it bigger or something like this.

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So I invite you to open this project and try to play around mess it up the way you would like and so

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on.

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Then when you're done you can just come over to reset to save the out.

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And here you are you're back to the standard one to have a stacked group panel like this.

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All you have to do is to come to any panel you go to the menu and you have panel group setting and make

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sure that you have stacked pan and group checked solar panels in stock checked and small tabs checked.

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Come play with it and you will find what is best for you and how you would like to work.

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Thank you very much for listening and the next lecture will jump in to understand what our compositions.

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See you then.