Adobe After Effects 2022 Lesson 1: Basic Interface

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This is an After Effects 2022 tutorial for beginners to learn the basic interface - it's a preview of my course (link above). Check it out if you enjoy this teaching style and want to learn more!

Summary:

If we head into New Project, the first thing to do is to save your project somewhere before you do anything else. So let's take a look at the panels. Over here is our project panel. This is where everything's going to live that we are going to use and everything that we're going to make.
Then we have this composition panel, which is going to show the work we are going to create. Over at the side here there are lots of different panels which we will learn about later on. And then at the bottom here is the timeline. This is where we're going to be building what we will make. So if we head back to the project panel first, I always begin by building a few folders to keep everything tidy. And if you come down to this icon here, you can click on that to create a new folder. And I tend to make one that's called Assets and one called Compositions. And you can also create a new folder just by right clicking and you can see it there. So anything I use in my edits, I'm going to put in Assets. And then the edits themselves - the actual sequences that we're going to have down here - those are going to live in Compositions because that's what they're called. Most other edit programs would call the things you build sequences, but After Effects calls them compositions.
So that's what I'm naming the folder. So to get started, we first need to import some footage, and we can either do that by coming to file and import and file again, or you can double click on your footage window and it brings up the same thing. And then we navigate around to look for what we want to import.

So I'll just grab a few of these shots, which you should have as well. I'm just going to take three of them for now. Eiffel Tower in trees, factory and field and model railway. I'm just going to take those and hit open. And there they are in the panel. And I'm just going to move them into my assets folder. So there they are. Once you have a lot of footage in here and it's difficult to find things, there is also a search bar in here if you need to type the name of something and you should see it. Now, if you've imported something by accident and you want to get rid of it, you can always highlight it and hit backspace or you can come down and click on this little icon here. And that will get rid of it.

We might want to zoom in or out on our shot here, and we can do that just down here by changing this value. Now, at the moment, it's set to fit. And that means that if I grab our blue line around our composition window and I was to resize that, you can see that that image is just fitting to the screen wherever I drag it. Alternatively, we might want to zoom in and get really close and we can pick a percentage here. So maybe 200 or 400 that would get us in really close to see a detail, or we could pick a percentage further out if we needed to see our edges. And a good shortcut for changing the size like this is to scroll with your mouse wheel.

Next, we have our preview resolution displayed. This at the moment says full and we've got a half, third quarter and auto as these other settings. Now, if it's set on full at the moment, if I hit spacebar for play, you'll see that we have to wait for this green line to fill up before our clip will play.If we had a lot of layers this green line can take a very long time to fill up if your preview resolution is set on full. So if that's the case, if your computer is pretty slow and the green line is just really taking its time to appear, it might be a good idea to knock down the quality, perhaps to something like half or third or quarter, and that will display the quality in a lower resolution just so that you can see what you're doing.

If you enjoy this teaching style and you want to see the rest of the lessons, then you can, of course, by the full course or learn more about it by clicking on the link below. It's called After Effects Essentials. And it's 30 video lessons to get a complete beginner up and running quickly with the program Adobe after effects to get results like I do in my VFX work. And it even comes with a downloadable selection of my footage to practice with.

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