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After Effects Apprentice
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After Effects Apprentice

by Chris Trish Meyer
September 2012
Beginner
320 pages
13h 28m
English
Focal Press
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Exploring the After Effects landscape.

In this section, we want to give you the “lay of the land” inside After Effects and show you how to move around inside of it. You will learn what each of the major sections of the user interface are called and what they are for, as well as how to rearrange the interface to best suit the task at hand.

The After Effects Project

Before we explain the pieces of the puzzle, we should first explain the puzzle they are part of: namely, an After Effects project. A project file points at the footage – sources or pieces of media – you want to use to build one or more compositions. After Effects does not store a copy of the footage inside the project file; just a pointer to it. When you move a project to a ...

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