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+  "text": "Alright, so before importing your design files to After Effects, you should always try to prepare them accordingly. Right now I'm in Sketch, but whether you're in Figma or WXD, you should do the same steps. So the first step that you should do is make sure that your layers are named correctly and that you have joined them into groups, smaller groups. By doing so, you will make sure that once you import your files to AfterEffect, that everything will be easy to find and it's going to be way easier to animate because when you import your design files to AfterEffect, you'll notice that all the groups will be transformed into compositions because they aren't actually any groups in the layers for On After Effects. So instead of groups, you'll end up with compositions. We'll talk more in details in the next chapter about what exactly are compositions, but if I was to compare, it's a little bit like smart objects in Photoshop. So by doing so, you make sure that you don't hand up with hundreds of layers that aren't named and really hard to find on After Effects. So this is the first step. Once this is done, I recommend keeping only the elements of your design that you actually want to animate in After Effects. So instead of importing the entire page here, the entire homepage of this homepage for the website of the city of Varenne, if I only want to animate the top part, what's above the fold, I'm going to take out and delete everything that's beneath the fold. So I'm just going to select everything here, this picture here, and make sure that my artboard is just the size of what I want to animate. So now I end up with only the elements that I actually want to animate. And these elements are the only one that will be exported to After Effects. Alright, now I'll show you step by step how to export your design files to After Effects, whether you're using Sketch, Figma, or Adobe XD. It's really quite simple. The simplest one is really Adobe XD because since After Effects is also an app from Adobe, the two applications really talk well to each other. So it's really super easy to do. All you have to do is select your artboard. If you're in XD, you select your artboard that you want to export. So in this case, I only have one. But if I had many, just like the one that you want to export, then go to File, Export, and you have here export to after effect. So you just click on this and now if you go to after effect You can see that your design file was imported. So everything is here. You have all of your different layers. All of your groups are now compositions and You're actually ready to animate. So I'm not we're go right now through what is everything. This is going to be in the next chapter. I'll explain the workspace and how to use After Effects. But this is what you'll end up with when you export your files from Adobe XD. If you're using Figma or Sketch, it's a little bit more tricky. There might be other ways, but the easiest way that I found was to install a plugin that is called AEUX. So I'm not sure exactly how you're supposed to pronounce it but from now on I'm just gonna say AfterEffectUX. So AEUX, AfterEffectUX. You can download the plugin from the website AUX.io. You simply go to the download section and you can see here that you have for sketch or figma one single download file So you click on this you download the file Then you end up with this zip file, I'm just gonna unzip it right now and in this file in this folder you have everything to install it to Figma Install the plug into Figma and install the plug-in on AfterEffect and install the plug-in on Sketch So let's start by installing the plug-in to AfterEffect So before you can install actually install the plug-in to AfterEffect you have to install the an app that is that will allow you to install this.zxp file. So to install the.zxp file you need to install the zxp installer. You can simply go to the ai-script.com page where you download the zxp installer. So I'm on Mac so I'm just gonna click here and download it. Now I double click on the dmg file and I get this where I can simply drag the zxp installer to my application folders. It's already installed in my case, so I'm not gonna drag it again. And now I open it up, ZXP installer. And I can simply drag the ZXP file directly in it. So just take it here, drag it inside. You are about to install a Afterffect UX to AfterEffect. Okay, enter your password. And there you go. AfterEffect UX was installed successfully. Just close it. Now if I go to AfterEffect and I go to my extensions, I have AEUX that's available. Next you also have to install the plugin on Figma or Sketch. So if you're using Sketch all you need to do is double click on this AUX.Sketch plugin file. So you double click here. I already had it installed so I'm just gonna say replace and you should get the plugin installed successfully message. So it's really that simple. Now how do you take your artboard and export it to After Effects from Sketch? All you have to do is select the artboard that you want to export, go to Plugin, AUX and Send Selection to After Effects. So you click on this and it opens up a window asking you where you want to save your file. So after effect works the same way as InDesign does. You have to have your links, your files, so either pictures or videos or sound or whatever kind of file you want to import to AfterEffect. You have to add them in a folder next to your AfterEffect file. So you simply create a folder that you can call images and this is where all the pictures that you have in your design files will be saved. So open and now you have your design file imported in AfterEffect. You have all your different layers here all your groups are now compositions and you're ready to animate. And for people using Figma it's really quite simple to install the plugin also. All you have to do is go to the Figma app go to Burger menu, plugin, development and new plugin. So here you have to select the manifest.json file that you downloaded. I'm just gonna click here and select the manifest.json file that is in the AUX Figma folder. I open it. And now the plugin should be installed. So if I go back to the Program menu and look at plugin development, I have AUX that's available now. Alright so now all I have to do is select the artboard that I want to export to AfterEffect. So I select this one here. I go back to the plugin development AUX and I click on send selection to AfterEffect. Again, I have to choose where I want to save my images. So I'm just going to create a folder, images, open. And now it's sending all of my design file from Figma to AfterEffect. I have all of my folders, layers here with my groups that are compositions and it's ready to animate. So now that we have imported our design files to AfterEffect we're finally ready to start playing around and look at where everything is.",
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