I hope from the last two lectures you are now very familiar with the interface of aftereffects.
Let's do some real work here.
I want to show you how to import footage and how to create a composition from the imported footage let's
create a new project and start afresh.
You'll come to file go to new and you have new project.
The shortcut here for Windows Control alt and I guess on the Mac it would be command option and click
on it.
And here we are we have a new project that doesn't have a name yet.
There are several ways to import a footage.
In fact there are always very many ways to do a lot in aftereffect but I want to show you the best practices
that would work with you even if you using the version 12 of aftereffects as far as this Tapert footage
you can simply come to the project palette right click and you have your import and you have file or
multiple files.
Let's go for five.
And you notice we have the shortcut our eye or comment on the Mac our select this option.
And of course you need to navigate to where you have saved the footage that I hope you download for
the course or get a footage that you like.
That even would be nice.
Now I would select this for videos here.
Click on the first one press shift click on the last one and I have the four of them selected.
This is what I want to import.
Now if you want 2000 18 please ignore all these options and make sure they are all unchecked.
For now our click Import Here are your footage has been imported into after effects.
But actually these videos are not inside your product.
There is only a link from your project to where the footage was stored on your mass storage so it's
always important to know where you put your footage and I have a standard folder for them.
If you want more footage from anywhere if you like you can't press control or command on the Mac and
go navigate to where he put the footage.
And now I want to select for example the photos only outside at first one pest control command on the
Mac.
The other one and so on and say import so imported.
Now the image is.
So now let's create a composition using these videos and even the images.
If you are in 2018 you'll have these two big buttons.
I would like to just ignore them for now because later on you will not be able to use them all the time.
Let's say you want to create a composition to work on aerial views city that and before only this single
video first of all not is the settings for this video.
The dimensions are 12 80 by 720.
This is the size of the video.
You can call it 720 and the frame rate is 30 frames per second.
This is quite important when you're working in after effects mainly the frames per second.
You don't want to you know mix things around you want to give the same three seconds for all your videos
and your composition and then you have the codec is 2 6 4 and then you have about these.
So if you want to create a composition from this video here just click on it.
Drag it.
You can drop it over here.
If you have no composition open or on the timeline if you have no composition or the best practice is
to bring them down to this button here.
This is for Create your composition from footage.
Another way to do that if you like is to right click and you have your new composition from Selection
your selection is only this video so you can click new composition from selection.
And here you are very nice.
That's not just what happens in the project panel.
You have aerial view city composition.
This is not is the item that has been created and it's open in the timeline.
The video is placed there as a layer.
That's a video layer and it has opened in the composition viewer.
When you can see or preview your video just like this I can press spacebar and we preview the video.
More importantly the dimensions had been picked from the video.
OK.
You're not this 12 A.D. by 7:24 the camp and for the area view city is also 12.
By 720 for the comp you had 30 frames per second.
Exactly like the video itself.
Of course you have the sound over here and you have the sound check.
You can put it on and off if you like it.
So now we have taken one video and created a new composition.
We can start for example adding some text here we say Cityview.
That's pretty cool.
What about that.
I will show you how to create text in very fashionable ways.
Now I have the video and the text in my composition I'm starting to compose.
I showed you the best practice to impart footage into aftereffects and to could he get a composition
from a single footage.
Thank you very much for listening.
I'll see you in the next lecture.