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Exploring the After Effects landscape.

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project structure

main application window

Tools panel

Project panel

importing footage

Composition panel

Timeline panel

Layer panel

Info, Preview, Audio panels

Effects & Presets; Effect Controls; other panels

Workspaces

Adobe Bridge

In this section, we want to give you the “lay of the land” inside After Effects and show you how to move around inside 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 ...

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