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Every Panel has its own name and function.

The After Effects Workspace consists of many Panels (1.). When starting After Effects for the first time the Workspace is set to Standard. Some tools also gain access to new functions as you can see at the far right. By doing that the Toolbar will switch through the tools. Another way to pick a hidden tool is to press the Shortcut several times. By clicking and holding the little triangle on the bottom-right-side you can reveal the other tools. Some of the tools hide their related tools. The Toolbar contains all the tools which can be used to work in After Effects. ToolbarĪlso at the top-left-corner you can see the Toolbar. If you have any problems with the performance you can change some memory settings and optimize After Effects to your needs. If you want to change the appearance of After Effects you can go to Edit > Preferences > Appearance and then change the Brightness.

As a matter of course this Tutorial doesn't cover all the functions and features After Effects is capable of, so you should check out the Help file for more information.

Here you can enable or disable the panels.

Later in this tutorial I'll talk about panels, frames and workspaces.

Everybody who already worked in Photoshop knows that rulers, grids and guides are very useful.

Since we want to create animations in After Effects you should check out this menu item and explore all the features in here.

Similar to Photoshop you can choose and edit your effects and presets from here.

You can use this to create, edit or arrange your layers.

As many other Adobe products After Effects works with layers.

We'll use this menu item to create a new composition but you should definetly check out the other features listed in this section.

An important feature in this section is the preferences area and of course all the undo, redo and editable features.

Here you can open, save, import and export your projects and files.

In the second part of this line you can see the currently open project file name.

I numbered the menu items to say one or two words to each of them: Some features are stored in the same menu items as in other Adobe products.

The menu bar is similar to all other menu bars in different programs. There are three main fragments:Īt the top-left-corner you can see the menu bar. After that Iíll start showing you the interface. Interfaceīefore importing any footage, creating a composition or explaining any features of After Effects we'll need to open After Effects. In the chart below you can see a listing of the steps explained in this Tutorial: 1.

#ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS TUTORIALS HOW TO#

In this section we will go over, how to import and organize footage, create new compositions, how to handle all the adjustment and project settings and how to save and export our projects. The three sections in which I split this Training, are: In this first part of the extensive and hopefully useful Training we'll learn many features of After Effects CS4.

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Tutorial After Effects CS4 - Essential Training Introductionīefore we get started, let's take a look at what we'll be facing in the Essential Training series which is intended to teach all beginners the basics of After Effects. You will learn all the basics you need to be able to use After Effects and understand the cool tutorials posted here on AETUTS. This first part of the Essential Training series will teach you how to get started in After Effects. Even though this series focuses on the latest CS4 release, most of the concepts apply to all the versions of After Effects. Each section lists at the top the topics that are covered in that section. Well we are listening and this is the first installment of a 3 part series for after effects beginners. When we launched we asked you to tell us what content you wanted and quite a few of you told us you wanted the basics.

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