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+    "text": "We're finally ready to open After Effects and look at where everything is and how it works. I know the interface may seem overwhelming at first, but it's actually pretty simple. It's similar to what we're used to with Adobe applications like Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. The first step when you arrive on After Effects is to create a new composition. So to create a new composition you can either just click on this zone here, new composition button, or you can go in the composition window and click on new composition. So the two of them do exactly the same thing. I'm just going to click here and when you click on new composition you get this composition setting window So this is where you you decide all the settings of your new composition that you're about to create So what is going to be the size of the new composition so you can write here the the size that you want your artboard to be I'm just gonna leave it at 1920 by 1080. All right. Next, we have different settings that I usually don't necessarily change, like the size of the pixels. Since it's for web, we're going to leave it square pixels. You have the frame rates. So the frame rates for people who don't know is the numbers of frames per second. So if you have a higher frame rate, like 60 frames per second, the motion, the animation are going to look really smooth. But if you go with a lower frame rate, like a frame rate of eight frames per second, then you only have eight images per second to create your movement. So the movement will be less fluid. I recommend going at least 24 frames per second to have something smooth. But we can leave it at 60 frames per second here. After that we have the duration. So this is where you set how long your composition, your animation will be. So right now it's set at 1 minute 66, 56 seconds. We could decide to put it only at 30 seconds. So here, by the way, it doesn't matter if we put 30 seconds and we decide afterwards as we're working that maybe we need it to be a bit longer we can change that at any time So for now, I'm just gonna leave it at 30 seconds I recommend if you're not sure how long you're going to need I recommend making it a little bit longer than shorter because it's easier to just shrink Reduce the size of your composition afterwards then it is to make it longer. So Let's say I know that I want to do about a 20 seconds animation I guess 30 seconds is good because if if it's If it's a bit longer, I'll have the wiggle room there The last point is the background color So right now it's set to a kind of light gray. You can decide to put it whichever color you want. You can put it white. And then when we're ready, we can also give a name to our composition. So I'm gonna say motion. And now we're ready, we just play on okay. And we get our new composition here. So what you see here is really your artboard that you just created. You have your composition on the left here. And you can zoom in your artboard. Right now we're at 50%. If we go at 100%, my window is a bit too small so I don't see everything. So I'm gonna stay at 50%. So this is where you can change the zooming. And you can decide to change the quality also. So here it's set at the quarter, so that means that we're gonna render only at the quarter of 100% quality, so only 25% of the quality. this will make it less visually appealing because it's going to be a pixelated but it's going to be way faster to to process and to preview my animations Sometimes I like to leave it only to automatic so right now it's since I'm at 50% of zoom it's at 50% of processing so it doesn't process at 100% of the quality because I'm just looking at the artboard at 50% but if I zoom at 100% now it processes it at full quality. Now let's take a closer look at the workspace that we have in After Effects. In the middle here this is where we have our composition panel. So in our composition panel we have our artboard. It's in the artboard that you're going to be able to create shapes, place pictures, videos, graphics. You can write some text. So this is really where everything visual happens. You can move the elements around, place them where you want. And later on, we can make the animations. On the right here, this is the tools that we have. We have all the regular tools like alignments, characters, so we can change the size of our text, and the color and so on. We have the paragraph, we have effects. Next we have at the left here, this is our project panel. So the project panel is where all the links will be. So just like in InDesign, where you have all of your links available in the links panel, this is kind of, in AfterEffect, it's the project panel. So here, right now, we only have one thing. It's our composition. We have our motion composition that we created earlier. We could have more than one composition in the same After Effect file. We can have multiple compositions. We can place compositions inside other compositions. This is where we're also going to have all of our pictures and videos. So let's say we want to import pictures to our After Effects document. We can just go ahead look at the pictures we want to import and drag them directly in our project panel here. So now we have access to all of these pictures that we can just drag on our artboard and that we're going to be able to animate afterwards. So this is one way to do it. I'm just going to delete them right now. When I delete them from the project panel, obviously they get deleted from my artboard. I could also just double click on the project panel and select what I want to import or I could go into file import file and import my files from there. We can import different types of files. We can import pictures, we can import videos. So if we import a video, we can place it and it starts playing. We can import sounds, so music. We can also import PSD files or After Effects files or Illustrator files also. So if you want to import the PSD files on which you have different layers and you want to keep those there separated so that you can animate them. You have to be to select your PSE file and make sure that you select composition because if you keep it at footage it's gonna flatten everything that you have so you're not going to be able to animate the different elements but by selecting composition and retain layer size, open then you click on OK and different layers here and that can be animated individually. This is perfect. This is what you want. You could do the same thing with an Illustrator file. Just make sure that your different elements that you have, either on Illustrator or Photoshop, that you want to animate individually. Make sure that they are on different layers in your Docu... design file so that once you integrate it to After effect, they are still on different layers. Now let's go back to our motion composition here and let's look at the bottom here at the last panel. So this is the timeline panel. This is where you have your seconds. So zero seconds to 30 seconds here at the end. This is also where you have all of your layers. So this is where you're going to be able to animate your layers on the timeline. The timeline here starts at 0 seconds, finishes at 30 seconds, but at any moment if we want to make it shorter we can go back to the composition and composition setting and change it, make it maybe 20 seconds and now it lasts only 20 seconds. Right now nothing is happening when I move around from 0 seconds to 20 seconds with my this blue line here that is called the current time indicator. So usually if I had an animation created already by moving this around from left to right I would be seeing my animation here in my artboard but since we didn't animate anything yet, nothing's happening. So we see as I move it around, we see here the seconds that go up and indicating at which exactly moment we are in our artboard here. We can zoom in our timeline if we want to focus on the seconds between 6 and 7, simply put your time indicator around there and zoom with this handle here between the two little mountains. If you push it right, you'll be zooming in so that you see more in details where you are between the 6 and 7 seconds here. If I push it to the left. I go back to seeing all the 20 seconds. I can do the same thing with the end hole here at the top So if I push it to the left, I'm zooming in Different part of my timeline I'm just gonna leave it here. So that I see the entire 20 seconds And yeah, you you have your layers here that you can still move around and that you can also move the order of. So if you have the text here that is above the layer of the shape, if I put my text and put it on top of the shape, it's going to be visible. But if I change the order and I put the shape on top of the text, obviously it's not going to be visible anymore, just like it would in Illustrator and Photoshop and those other applications. So you have to make sure to have the right order that you want. And now we're actually ready to start animating our layers.",
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