Finding your way around the city in After Effects CS5 can be a bit scary, but then so as you found your way around the city. Start with the main roads, take a little detour now and then. Use your GPS. It gets easier daily.
One of the puzzling things to me is that the layout is configurable to your advantage. You can choose between the panels and the tools to make you want to see. You can choose where they are. You can resize all, you can "unplug" and put the part where the panel is still available, but far from the main line of vision.
I say confusion to your advantage?. When you look at the online demos and tutorials, layout will not always look the same. There are several predefined layouts designed to fit a predefined task that animation or motion tracking. This can be a bit confusing. As you start using all signs and more important than your day job is more appropriate for a particular layout, this flexibility to help you with the tools and attitudes you need at your fingertips.
In this overview, I will be with the workspace by default, the start and I always use the most. If you look at the options menu at the top of your workspace with the "File" on the far left, the "Window" menu at the end of the extreme right will present your work opportunities, the first option under the window. Just look at the various provisions of what they offer and how they differ, is an instructive exercise.
The standard of work you see your project panel in the upper left corner sharing with the control panel power. I like that. The panel project is your project, the star of the show and it's all the resources of children. Here you can place the captured video and images, here you can create folders to manage your resources. It is common to use a composition to another, you will see all the compositions belonging to your project here.
Below is the project panel on the timeline panel. Here, "at work". Here you can create and drop the level, which are the contents of the film. It 'an intelligent search system between the layer of objects, and the panel design, you can follow.
Above your calendar is good for your control panel of your project composition. This is where you will see your project in its expression. In this panel, you can see a preview screening of your project, you can choose to display portions, or zoom in for more details. If you "double click" on a video in your project panel, a "film" window open in the composition window that allows you to view this resource.
On the right side you'll see information panel that shows the colors and the composition of the coordination of information. When you move the mouse off the road, you see the "x, y 'coordinates for data visualization. Right below is a preview control is used a lot. Just as a preview of the film you can see the composition of the work for reproduction improving back and forth, jump to the beginning or end.
Below a preview of the "effects and preset" panel panel, After Effects names. Here you can see all the effects, including effects pre-finished detail and animation for all of you. The effects are presented in class folders, you can pick and choose. Typically, the distribution of this panel or placed under a "sign" of the panel used to create and stylize the entire text.
There are many tools and lots of "hacker tool" in After Effects, but from a composition by adding some resources, then create the animation is much easier than you think. Soon you'll find your way around the city easily and safely run on some sights to discover your community to share with After Effects.
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