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Adobe After Effects
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Adobe After Effects

by Ben Goldsmith
July 2022
Intermediate to advanced
488 pages
13h 20m
English
Rocky Nook
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Set Up the Project

The Lesson 3 project file is completely empty! We’ll be making our own kombucha today.

  • Fire up a new After Effects project, either by clicking New Project from the splash screen, or with File > New Project.
  • Save this project into Lesson 3 > 05_Project, naming it Lesson 3.

Creating a New Composition from Scratch

So far, we’ve been opening compositions based on imported Illustrator files. Since we’re starting from scratch, we’ll need to make a brand-new composition.

  • Either select Composition > New Composition (⌘-N/Ctrl-N) or select the composition icon at the bottom of the Project panel.

You’ll see the New Composition panel ...

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ISBN: 9781681988672