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Hi guys and the welcome to this lecture and in this lecture we are going to impart or learn how to import



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images into after effects and images come in different kinds.



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There is back teeth and Photoshop and also you can have Illustrator files now but that will give us



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some players or path we been call all these kinds of images if you want to bring an image into aftereffect.



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The first read through it is to go to a file to import an import file.



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That's one way.



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The way I like is right click in the project panel import fight that you take to your folder or your



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storage unit where you can move around to you know get to the folder where you have your images.



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Let's use an image here a simple image.



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For example Laura is a nice castle.



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There's about a project that we have done.



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When I click on the image in the project panel it will give me the size of the image the name of course



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and the number of colors.



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Now there are several ways to create a composition with the image or to create a composition and drop



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the image in.



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I will take that image for example and show you how to create decomposition I would drop it into the



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timeline immediately it became a layer.



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That's one.



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It created a new composition with the same name.



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And of course decomposition and the image have the same size.



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Now if I click on the composition I can see the formation of the camp.



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It's 19:20 by 14:14 the same size as the image and also the time here is seven seconds and 21 minute.



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This is because of what I've used before.



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The last composition I have created 25 frames per second you can come and change the composition setting



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for example and put it at five seconds for example 5.



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That is five seconds.



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The image does not give you.



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How long is the composition.



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It just goes back to the last one you have created and you notice here my image is almost square and



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in the time line is not moving at all.



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I don't have a layer inside this layer.



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I have the transform and inside the transform I have the normal transformations.



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Now we can come and animate our image if you want.



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We can scale it down to zero.



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And then after a few frames get it up to 100 and you have an animation very simple one.



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Of course this is the most that you that you can do animations with the images.



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So actually the images will drop as they are simple letters.



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Let's open here the scale and make it back to 100 percent.



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Let's go back and import more images and say file and let's import for example big images.



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Let's take this one.



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I will import this image that is seven thousand three hundred sixty pixel by 3000 is very big.



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Now I can come and take it and drop it in the composition.



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I can drop it under or above the way I want or I can come even and drop it somewhere you know on the



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timeline here.



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I mean what is that image is huge.



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If you look look at the image how big and the comp is really small.



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Now what I can do to resize it I can just click here and start resizing.



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Of course that's one way to do it.



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A better way to do it and I like to use that way is to right click on your land and come to transform



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and see fit to come up with.



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Now depending on the image it might fit to do with to the height maybe fitting to the country will distort



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the image most of the time.



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Let's get this one to the with.



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Now let's see it at 100 percent.



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If not is that fitting to the with.



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Clearly it didn't go well with the image the image now it just has you know some empty space above and



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under you can change that you can go and transform fit to compact and here.



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Now that's much better yet I'm not seeing the whole image.



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But just to show you that instead of starting resizing your image from here.



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Well there will be no problem in coming here and saying transform go and fitted to complete or complete



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or even to the camp but you will see distortion now.



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Fine.



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Let me read this to and actually I would delete the top.



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OK so we have seen how to bring in images.



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Let's go and being different kinds of images.



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For example I have here the image for Tiger.



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This is obviously a penguin image.



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It has a transparent background.



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And the man and the alien here have an important call that over here let's create a new composition.



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Obviously we don't want that size.



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Let's take it ahead by 25.



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And it is 1920 by 10.



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That's OK.



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The frame rate we don't get this is an image and a five second duration could we drop it in.



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Now let's take our alien guy and drop it inside.



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This is another way also to drop your images just like that from the project file to inside the camp.



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And here you have your image and not as that is transparency.



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And let's take our man the man now is pretty big.



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I will go and say transform and of course to come pite and from here I can resizes differ with like



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you know what is the transparency.



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Let's take the tiger.



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Very big very beautiful tiger.



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Also we go transform and fit the compact.



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Now you have all your images with transparency



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kill them and you can do whatever you want with them using the transformation.



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You can see here you have all the transforms that you want rotation opacity and of course you can at



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present and you can add puppets and everything you want.



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This is what we use for this project.



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Now let's try opacity with images.



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You notice that you can make the image disappear or appear.



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Of course you can rotate it and you can scale it up and down the way you want we have seen that.



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And of course you can animated through the position that the positioning will go to one second and then



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get over there and you have your tiger moving around the screen.



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But not in this movie but just to show you how an image will be.



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Now all images will behave very nicely with you provided they are good quality.



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One thing to do if I have my tiger here and I will come and say dessert for example you're not just



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my target is very big.



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Please don't scare it up.



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You will lose resolution.



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And when you make a movie it's also were rendered badly and you will not have that's an excellent image



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by the way.



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You will not have good resolution.



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Sometimes it can work like this case where the resolution is highly extra for this image.



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A couple of clicks that you want to be careful about when you are doing images of your country or a



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project here and DoubleClick for example on the tiger.



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It will open a new panel.



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This is a footage that you see straight in here.



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And in this panel there are certain things you can do.



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It's not the subject of this lecture but remember that you click here you are not in your position you



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are in the footage.



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Maybe close your footage and come back to your composition.



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Now if you come to your lair and double click it will open the layer panel.



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You notice that it's exactly when you click on the composition it will open a new composition viewer



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or it takes over this one.



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So now you are in the earlier panel now.



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In the last panel there are a few things and we study them in discourse that you can do that pretty



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simple.



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The first one is the brush tool for example you have a brush here and you can draw you know things here



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and there will appear on the time line and we are going to use that to create very special animations



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later on that you see on YouTube and some fantastic movies where some graphics appeared on top of images.



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So you can use the Blash You can also use the stem tool is exactly like Photoshop.



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If I click al-Thani and then come and through here it will just do the stamping.



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Also you can use the arrays are my favorite and you can erase part of your guy for example that will



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be very nice now.



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OK.



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And we are raising his top So Andrea is in his top here.



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And maybe also we come back and delete these strokes or this and it is even more that's come in to something.



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There's nothing good.



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Now if you come back to your composition or the modification that you have done repeating a not as the



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image is very fine.



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So I will take it transform and say to come up high for example and let's go back to 100 percent.



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Here you.



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You notice that all the changes you have done in your player and if you keep on doing more changes here



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it will also appear in your play or inside the composition.



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So now we have a single head with deleted everything is we deleted everything else.



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Now got this quite practical because it will allow us to modify the images and work on them.



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And mainly when you have characters that we want to animate.



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So this is all about images is all about the transparency and so on.



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So you in the next lecture where we are going to introduce some movies how to import movies and what



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to do with the movies.



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Thanks for listening and I will see you in the next decade.