If you want to follow along with me guys please open the file.
Mary Lou for the Craford that AP so that you can come to the menu here file and you see open project
and you navigate to where you have downloaded your projects from the second lecture.
I guess you want to open maybe 2 for the graphic.
This is the fight.
Click on it.
De-selected of course and you click on Open Haiti or you can start following along with me.
In the previous lecture you have seen about the default workspace in this lecture.
I want to take you around in this workspace.
And the purpose here is for you to feel extremely familiar with the interface of after effect so you
can work easily and happily remember aftereffects is all about having fun.
If you don't have fun if you want to do motion graphics and visual effects very seriously it's not going
to work.
So you need to be light hearted you know creative What can you do.
How can you do things.
So let's start here.
The first thing I want to draw your attention to is the top menu in Windows.
You will start with file in Mac you will start with After Effects.
He has several options.
Nevertheless you can see the menu.
And for every option or for some options you will have a shortcut.
So if you want to know the shortcut you just come to the option.
This is control.
As for save or for new composition for example it's control.
And so this is our top menu that I will come to very many times until you are very familiar with all
the shortcuts under the main menu.
Here you have the toolbar.
This is where you are going to pick the tools that you are going to use to create your composite or
the video that you render at the end you have for example the selection tool and the shortcut if you
point that it use the selection tool and the shortcut is the you have the hand tool that will help you
move things around.
If you want to.
OK.
And you have the zoom to the rotation tool and all the others that you will be using.
Now some of these options are very straightforward.
Just click once and that's it.
But some of them you can click and long click if you like then you will have many other options.
So if you want for example to change a tool here you long click and select the right thing.
Now not just what's happening here.
When I change tools the options here change I want you to keep an eye on this is pretty important.
So for rectangle for example you have the feel of the stroke that are highlighted I can use and you
have the busy path that should keep an eye on it.
When you're drawing shapes for the text if I long click or resentful and vertical and not that's how
the correct panel has opened on the left side.
If you haven't moved it there is the project panel where you will have all the files that you have important
in after effect listed here and all the compositions that you have create in the middle.
Over here you'll have your composition of your if you come to the menu.
You click on photograph for example you see Neukom viewers so you can have a comp viewers if you have
severe comps that you can preview over here.
Also you have the small menu that's pretty important later on over here in blue is the name of the composer.
So within the composition of your you will view exactly what you have put as videos what is happening
how are the effect behaving and stories like this in the timeline.
This is where it will be the measured word.
You'll have two parts the left part.
Over here you have your layers.
This is where you are compositing.
So in this example I have a video that is photograph heard that before I added the shape player added
a text layer a another layer.
And of course I can preview them on this site of course we see how to reorder all this on the right
side.
It is the timeline.
You have the timeline indicator.
If you click on it and scrub through it you can see what's happening in your composition how things
are behaving.
And this is where you will have the animation if you press you for example you can see the keyframes
and how things are being emitted and how they appear.
You can also come to the time line press spacebar and you can play what is happening in your composition
or preview the composition itself.
So this is pretty easy.
Now about these numbers here these are seconds and frames.
Now it all depends on the resolution that you are using.
You could have only seconds low resolution you could have much more than I have if using higher resolution.
And you can have these is simple.
This is zero seconds not is the time is over here of the time line indicator.
If I scrubbed through now I'm on then flames now 20 frames one second.
So that is how it is when you have 10.
These are frames when you have 0 1 0 0 F that is seconds.
You have another seconds here that is two seconds.
So mainly this is about the default workspace.
Now you have some manipulation that you can do for the palace for example you can resize it and here
you are of course both of them are being resized and you can resize vertically you are up and down.
So you can see more of the timeline and less of the composition of your head for example.
I take it back here a lot so you can move the panels around for example if you don't like project over
here you can select it.
Click on the name and start moving it around.
You can put it on the right over here or you can be a bit more sophisticated then just put it for example
on this side extreme right.
OK.
So you can see everything that you have depending on what you want to do.
Let's take back a project and put it on the left again here you are not second move it almost anyway.
Now you notice these stacked panel group.
This is a public group.
Click on one it will open.
If you click on another one the previous one we closed and the one you clicked on will open.
Now where did this come from.
Well if you come to window here these are all the palace you can have in after effects and there are
very few by the way compared to Photoshop or illustrators.
And if you want a panel to appear all you have to do is to check it.
For example I will check brushes are brushes over here.
Of course you can make it bigger or smaller the size of the way you want.
You can also click on it and position it anywhere you want within the stacked group palette.
Now if you close one of them say close brush with close contact or you are closed and you want them
back.
All you have to do is to come to a window and say OK check correcter it will appear over here and the
checker brushes for example.
Over here it comes over.
You could of course you can move these to anywhere you want.
For example you can take brushes and just put it over here and make it bigger or something like this.
So I invite you to open this project and try to play around mess it up the way you would like and so
on.
Then when you're done you can just come over to reset to save the out.
And here you are you're back to the standard one to have a stacked group panel like this.
All you have to do is to come to any panel you go to the menu and you have panel group setting and make
sure that you have stacked pan and group checked solar panels in stock checked and small tabs checked.
Come play with it and you will find what is best for you and how you would like to work.
Thank you very much for listening and the next lecture will jump in to understand what our compositions.
See you then.