Hello there, welcome to this video! I am going to show you the full basicsfor Adobe After Effects CC!Please, leave any feedback in case you find mistakes in pronunciation to help us. Check the video description for the index of what is explained here. Before starting, keep in mind that After Effects, since the CS6 edition, works juston 64-bit Operative Systems. Do not try to search or install it in 32-bit ones. After Effects is one of the best softwares used in video editing, inprivate and in business too. What differs between this and Adobe Premiere is theapproach: After Effects focuses much more on effects in general. Its workspace is composed by three main parts: the Preview, that is used to makeyou see how the project in progress is; the Project window on the left, used to importand collect pieces of media used in your project; and the Timeline, set below, used tooperate and edit your project. While working, you will open and close other windows. You can always find all the windows, and open the closed ones by going on thebar above, to Window. Then just click on the window interested. Let's start with a new project. Go to File, New and then to New Project. . . if you don'thave a new project opened by default. First thing to do, is to drag all the files youare going to use here. These can be videos, sound files, or images as well, and areall called Footages. To add them in your project, simply select them from yourcomputer and drag them in the Projectwindow. The upload can be done fasterselecting more than one file at once. You can select more files by holding CTRL down. Just some notices. The Project window has not the real files inside, but just aquick link to them. This means that, if the original files imported are moved,After Effects won't be able to find them anymore, and such files will be shown initalic. To reopen the new location of the files, just select them, right-click on them, and goto Replace Footage and then to File. . . In the Browse window, just select the originalfile in its new location and then go to Open. The file will go on working as before. Then save the project. Go to File and then to Save As. . . and select location and namefor your project. After Effects projects are recognised through their . aep format. Remember to save often in the future, just in case your computer or the software crashes. To work on, we need to understand the structure of the files. A project in AfterEffects is a collection of Compositions (or Comp) always indicated througha frame icon. A project is composed by one composition at least, and this is created in the moment you drag the first file inside the timeline. Such collection will takethe name of the file put. Then each composition collects other files inside, which can be any piece of media or other compositions. Compositions are managedlike a simple file, with the difference that it collects more of them altogether. Remember that the order or suborders you can have in the Project window changesnothing on what you actually have in the project itself. What counts for the project and the aspect of the final video is what is insidethe timeline. Drag there a video for instance. The video will occupy a row, called layer,whose preview is shown through the Preview window. Very important is to rename each comp. In the future, expecially in complex projects,you need to work with many comps, and if you give a proper name to them, youcan manage them much better. Just select the comp in the Project window, right-clickand go to Rename. The Project window shows you the files you are using. Open a file double-clickingon it. This will be shown in a new opened window, with the title containing the nameof the file. There are three files you can see here. The Compositions, that show youthe overall files put together inside such comp. Then the Footages, that are thesingle files opened from the Project window, and then the Layers, which arefiles opened from your timeline. Mind that you can view just a single comp per time,the one shown in your timeline. In fact, the timeline shows the content and thefull structure of the composition with the name shown in the top left corner. To open a comp, just double-click on it, and this will be shown in the Preview window,and its structure in the timeline. Each comp does have its own independent structure,and files or comps inside such can be used in other comps independently. Let's come back to the Preview window. You can zoom in and out through yourmouse wheel. The current time location is indicated by the second grey slot at thebottom. Very important are the quality settings. In case your computer has low memory orprocessor, it is important to use low quality while working. The third grey slot is thequality. Click on it to change it. Full sets the maximum quality, whereas Quarter setsjust 1 out of 4 pixels rendered per time. When projects are complex, and thepreview is being rendered, an orange bar will tell you how much time it takes to render. To play your comp opened, just press Space from your keyboard. Just press it againto stop. It will be played the file that has been selected. If it's selected the previewwindow, that will be played, otherwise the timeline, if the timeline is selected. Aselected window is recognized through a thin orange stroke on them. Let's focus on the timeline. On the left, you have a full description of the layersthat the opened comp has. Click on the eye to make the related layer invisible. Click on the loudspeaker to mute the layer. This can be done just on soundor video layers. Click on the circle to play the layer solo, with all the other layersmuted. Enable the Lock icon to lock the layer, so that you can see it but notedit it in any way. Each layer then has its own color and name. Click on the colouredicon to change its color. Right-click on the name of the layer and go to Rename tochange it. By default, the name of the layer is the name of the file imported in brackets. Each layer has its position, shown next to the layer color. The position sets the orderof visibility. A layer that has a lower number is shown above layers that have anhigher number. Click and drag a layer to change the related positions. During each comp, you will work inside the timeline. Oncelayers are set, they are shown through coloured rows, all with the same height. You can choose to have the timeline in frames or in seconds. To set this, just goto File and to Project Settings. . . In TimeDisplay Style, choose between Framesor Timecode. Zoom in and out the timeline holding ALT down and using your mouse wheel. You can move a layer in time by clicking and dragging it on the left or right. Payattention to the length. An image layer can be modified on its length without problems. Just approach its edges and drag them left or right. Songs and videos have abeginning and an end, and so you can just shorten their length dragging the edges. If you want to make these loop, just select the related file in the Project window,and right-click on it. Go to Interpret Footage, and then on Main. . . At the bottom, you find a value that tells you how many times it is looped. Just put an integer value higher than one. If you use long footages in your comp, its length may be too much short. This means that you are not able to see where the file does end, and, at acertain point, you can't go on the right any further. In this case, you need toenlong the comp. In the Project window, right-click on the comp interested, andgo to Composition Settings. . . In this window you can change anything related tothe comp. Change the value in Duration to make it longer. Below the timeline, you have the Time Ruler, that selects a part of your timeline, calledWork Area. This area is important when you render the project. All that is outsidesuch area won't be rendered. You can cut, copy or paste a layer, by selecting it, and pressing CTRL+X, CTRL+Cand CTRL+V from your keyboard. Use CTRL+Z to undo the latest action anytime. On top, you have the Tool Bar, used to edit your comp opened in the Preview window. For example use the Lens icon to zoom in and out. Use the Hand Tool to view better. The comp can be modified through the Preview window in a very easy way. To selectthe right layer to edit, you can choose to select it through the Preview window or thelist on the left of the timeline. Visible layers, when selected, show anchors on theedges. Drag them to scale. Click and drag on the centre to move. Use the RotationTool in the Tool Bar to rotate the layer. Each layer has its own properties, that can be shown clicking on the grey arrow, nextto the layer color. Visible layers have the Transform section, that sets opacity,position, scaling and rotation angle related to the layer, seen through the Previewwindow. Drag the numbers to change values. Otherwise just click once and insert precisenumbers. Use Reset to come back to the initial settings. Layers that have sound, such as videos or music, have the Audio section. The Waveformshows you how the sound is in time. Use Audio Levels to make it louder or less. If you want to learn how to put effects with After Effects CC, watch the related videoin this show. Let's now see how to save and render your project. To save it anytime just pressCTRL+S. After Effects projects in . aep format do save anything, such asplacement in the timeline and in the Preview window, effects and settings. These projects can be used as footages in other projects. Just drag the . aep files inthe Project window in the future, and it will appear under a new folder with its files inside. To render the project, so to get the final video, open the Render Queue window, that you can find in Window. Render Queue has the list of all the comps to be rendered. Open the comp interested in the timeline and go to Composition and then to Add toRender Queue. If you want to render your project, simply add the comp that containsall the footages. Each comp in the queue is described with name, status and time remaining. Whenstatus says Queued it means that it is ready to be rendered. Otherwise some info ismissing, so you must add them through the options at the bottom. To set the quality,just click on the arrow next to Render Settings, and go to Custom. . . Watch the video in this show, to know how to render in HD. Go to Output Module to change the format and the size of the output video. Youwill need to choose . mp3 if you want to render just audio parts. Always check if audio render is enabled, below Crop section. Then go to Output To to set name and destination folder for the video rendered. Then just click on Render to start. You can pause or stop it anytime. Mind that stopping a render will render an independent part of the video rendered. You won't obtain an unique overall video. It will be rendered just the part that fallsinside the Work Area set. Very well, these are the very basics for Adobe After Effects CC. Watch the videosin this show to know how to render in HD and how to put effects and text!Thanks for watching!
Using The Define , Open & Close
Using the Menu bar ,Project window & Timeline
Using The Comp, Info, Preview
Using The - Label Color, Length Foofage
Using The limite light, Ram ,disd Cache of AE
Using The Audio, Tool Bar, Effect Control, effect & Preset, Workspace, Render
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