From time to time it's important that you make copies or backup copies of your projects.
Don't make one single file name like you see here and start saving and saving and saving while you're
making a lot of changes and building projects.
It's important that you learn how to make you know versions of the project.
Now I have this nice animation here I'm very happy with it and I want to save this one.
And then later on I want to introduce some changes but I don't want to over save this copy.
So I want to have two copies this one and the one where I'm going to make changes.
So what will I do.
This is how I work.
I would come to file and say save.
So now this copy of the project coffee shop is saved.
Now I want to start introducing some changes before I start introducing the changes.
What I do is I come to find and say increment and save and that is what it says here.
It's increment and save.
It does not save an increment.
So is going to increment the name of the file or the project and then save it let's click and see what
happens.
I would say increment and save.
Now the name here has become a coffee shop two.
So I have the first version coffee shop which is a coffee shop one and I have this version.
Coffee shop too.
And if you come back to file you'll notice this version is already saved.
So it's very safe to start working because the previous version is saved and this version now is already
saved.
So if I make some changes for example and I put it them here OK I can come and save this one.
Good.
So don't go.
Always increment and save just save first.
Then you can go file increment and save.
Now I have a third copy is coffee shop three.
Why you can do that without worrying about disk space.
And stories like this if you come to your filing system your browser in the file system or the file
explorer you find out that the size of the project in After Effects is always very small.
So actually there are no movies and stories like this that I've kept inside the project.
Except when you're doing tracking.
Now there is really a lot of information the size of the project of after effects are always very small.
And please from now on you'll start your mission you start your compositions and you start your project
please come and do file increment and save and make a new copy and not this it's very small.
You don't have to worry about it.
Now what's good about this because also I can come to file and open recent the copies are all here and
the other ones I've been working on so I can see the first and the second and the third.
So if I want to come back to the second I can just click here and it's already over here and I come
to open research.
And here you are the three of them are here now in different order because I opened number two so using
increments and save First you said you do your work and you make versions you know upgrade.
I will say of your work or different versions and then you can really be on the safe side.
Thanks very much for listening.
I hope this was very useful and please use it.
I when the next election.