Adobe After Effects

Workshop one

In After effects everything in contained in windows.
Workspace divided into panels
Can change to animation etc
Work on different tabs
Window-additional panels
Window-workspace-reset standard, brig all back

After effects-preference-appearance-change the brightness

Each panel your working on is highlighted 'The active panel'

Project panel- Everything you create AEP After effect project

Everything your going to use will be in this panel 

File-import-file

Bottom window - timeline - Arrange them here, time ruler

Spatially- Space you have, to see how it looks

Temporally- time

Composition window- this is where you see it played back 

Create a composition 

has to contain at least one composition, like a page in InDesign etc 

Composition- new composition

Presets 

Divided into categories HD high definition 

Standard definition NTSC- american 

Video standard - PAL- Uk 

British and american like on a DVD, comp games

Series of still images- divided into frames 

29.97- NTSC

PAL- 25 

PAL D1- DV 

PAL D1- DV - Working with video 

PAL D1- DV- Working with graphics

PAL D1- DV Widescreen square pixels 

rectangular pixels- video 

19-6 widescreen pixels- PAL D1- DV Widescreen square pixels 

Width and height in pixels 

Highlighted means you can change them 

Hover over ad click to move left and right or just click and type it in 

Frame rate - 25 - pal standard 

Duration 0.00.05.00 5 seconds 

Background colour 

Timeline works with layers. Every asset will have its own layer 

Click on timeline or composition window layer- new - solid 

Solid settings 

Still images will last the whole time 

Time indicator 

Click over the image on timeline at the end and drag to make smaller or longer

Can move it around the timeline 

Click on solid

Layer- solid settings to change colour etc 

Composition- comp settings- can change settings at any time 

Order which it appears at the front of comp window 

can click and drag to move