1 00:00:02,080 --> 00:00:07,510 I hope from the last two lectures you are now very familiar with the interface of aftereffects. 2 00:00:07,510 --> 00:00:09,500 Let's do some real work here. 3 00:00:09,550 --> 00:00:16,290 I want to show you how to import footage and how to create a composition from the imported footage let's 4 00:00:16,290 --> 00:00:18,760 create a new project and start afresh. 5 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:22,890 You'll come to file go to new and you have new project. 6 00:00:22,890 --> 00:00:29,970 The shortcut here for Windows Control alt and I guess on the Mac it would be command option and click 7 00:00:29,970 --> 00:00:30,520 on it. 8 00:00:30,630 --> 00:00:34,080 And here we are we have a new project that doesn't have a name yet. 9 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:37,870 There are several ways to import a footage. 10 00:00:37,870 --> 00:00:43,810 In fact there are always very many ways to do a lot in aftereffect but I want to show you the best practices 11 00:00:44,110 --> 00:00:51,230 that would work with you even if you using the version 12 of aftereffects as far as this Tapert footage 12 00:00:51,350 --> 00:00:57,920 you can simply come to the project palette right click and you have your import and you have file or 13 00:00:57,920 --> 00:00:59,130 multiple files. 14 00:00:59,510 --> 00:01:00,740 Let's go for five. 15 00:01:00,980 --> 00:01:08,480 And you notice we have the shortcut our eye or comment on the Mac our select this option. 16 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:14,120 And of course you need to navigate to where you have saved the footage that I hope you download for 17 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:16,390 the course or get a footage that you like. 18 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:18,170 That even would be nice. 19 00:01:18,170 --> 00:01:20,970 Now I would select this for videos here. 20 00:01:21,050 --> 00:01:26,490 Click on the first one press shift click on the last one and I have the four of them selected. 21 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:28,410 This is what I want to import. 22 00:01:28,530 --> 00:01:34,910 Now if you want 2000 18 please ignore all these options and make sure they are all unchecked. 23 00:01:34,910 --> 00:01:43,650 For now our click Import Here are your footage has been imported into after effects. 24 00:01:44,420 --> 00:01:48,650 But actually these videos are not inside your product. 25 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:56,360 There is only a link from your project to where the footage was stored on your mass storage so it's 26 00:01:56,360 --> 00:02:02,010 always important to know where you put your footage and I have a standard folder for them. 27 00:02:02,330 --> 00:02:09,710 If you want more footage from anywhere if you like you can't press control or command on the Mac and 28 00:02:09,710 --> 00:02:12,310 go navigate to where he put the footage. 29 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:18,530 And now I want to select for example the photos only outside at first one pest control command on the 30 00:02:18,530 --> 00:02:19,140 Mac. 31 00:02:19,220 --> 00:02:24,020 The other one and so on and say import so imported. 32 00:02:24,050 --> 00:02:26,410 Now the image is. 33 00:02:26,490 --> 00:02:31,600 So now let's create a composition using these videos and even the images. 34 00:02:31,740 --> 00:02:35,780 If you are in 2018 you'll have these two big buttons. 35 00:02:35,970 --> 00:02:41,290 I would like to just ignore them for now because later on you will not be able to use them all the time. 36 00:02:42,140 --> 00:02:49,670 Let's say you want to create a composition to work on aerial views city that and before only this single 37 00:02:49,670 --> 00:02:53,960 video first of all not is the settings for this video. 38 00:02:54,230 --> 00:02:57,290 The dimensions are 12 80 by 720. 39 00:02:57,290 --> 00:02:59,010 This is the size of the video. 40 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:04,420 You can call it 720 and the frame rate is 30 frames per second. 41 00:03:04,610 --> 00:03:09,710 This is quite important when you're working in after effects mainly the frames per second. 42 00:03:09,740 --> 00:03:16,280 You don't want to you know mix things around you want to give the same three seconds for all your videos 43 00:03:16,370 --> 00:03:24,830 and your composition and then you have the codec is 2 6 4 and then you have about these. 44 00:03:24,920 --> 00:03:29,060 So if you want to create a composition from this video here just click on it. 45 00:03:29,180 --> 00:03:30,020 Drag it. 46 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:31,600 You can drop it over here. 47 00:03:31,640 --> 00:03:39,560 If you have no composition open or on the timeline if you have no composition or the best practice is 48 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:41,960 to bring them down to this button here. 49 00:03:42,170 --> 00:03:45,550 This is for Create your composition from footage. 50 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:51,290 Another way to do that if you like is to right click and you have your new composition from Selection 51 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:56,810 your selection is only this video so you can click new composition from selection. 52 00:03:57,080 --> 00:03:58,880 And here you are very nice. 53 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:01,610 That's not just what happens in the project panel. 54 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:04,220 You have aerial view city composition. 55 00:04:04,220 --> 00:04:10,680 This is not is the item that has been created and it's open in the timeline. 56 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:13,010 The video is placed there as a layer. 57 00:04:13,190 --> 00:04:17,470 That's a video layer and it has opened in the composition viewer. 58 00:04:17,540 --> 00:04:26,130 When you can see or preview your video just like this I can press spacebar and we preview the video. 59 00:04:26,270 --> 00:04:31,480 More importantly the dimensions had been picked from the video. 60 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:31,980 OK. 61 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:39,120 You're not this 12 A.D. by 7:24 the camp and for the area view city is also 12. 62 00:04:39,260 --> 00:04:43,760 By 720 for the comp you had 30 frames per second. 63 00:04:43,940 --> 00:04:46,640 Exactly like the video itself. 64 00:04:46,700 --> 00:04:49,860 Of course you have the sound over here and you have the sound check. 65 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:51,980 You can put it on and off if you like it. 66 00:04:52,940 --> 00:04:57,170 So now we have taken one video and created a new composition. 67 00:04:57,230 --> 00:05:02,320 We can start for example adding some text here we say Cityview. 68 00:05:02,510 --> 00:05:03,280 That's pretty cool. 69 00:05:03,350 --> 00:05:03,950 What about that. 70 00:05:03,950 --> 00:05:07,260 I will show you how to create text in very fashionable ways. 71 00:05:08,060 --> 00:05:15,180 Now I have the video and the text in my composition I'm starting to compose. 72 00:05:15,220 --> 00:05:21,520 I showed you the best practice to impart footage into aftereffects and to could he get a composition 73 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:23,740 from a single footage. 74 00:05:23,890 --> 00:05:25,690 Thank you very much for listening. 75 00:05:25,690 --> 00:05:27,040 I'll see you in the next lecture.