a lot of what we'll be doing in after effects. We create from scratch right within after effects. So creating things like titles and motion graphics, you can build most of that right within after effects. Other times though you'll be using after effects to apply visual effects to video clips or you'll be using photographs that you created and you'll be adding effects to that. Or maybe you'll even be adding music and sound effects right within after effects. I typically do that in adobe premiere pro because it's a little bit easier and more efficient for me. But you can still do it in after effects to import media into your project to work on. Just go to your finder folder or your documents folder and then you can simply drag any asset into your project been. So for example, if I wanted to bring in this picture of a kangaroo that I shot in Australia, I can just simply drag it and drop it in after effects and you can see that when I get that plus green button, it means that I can drop it...

into my project panel. And then the other ways you can import are just by right clicking choose import and then choose file. And then you could go to your folders through this. So for example, if I wanted to bring in some music, I can pick this music, click open. Or I could go up to file, import again, import file. Let's import a video for example, do this video sample and click open once it's imported, I definitely suggest organizing your footage. I typically create folders or bins for the different types of footage. So for example, I can create a new folder by clicking this new folder button and then call it video for example. And then I would put all of my video clips in this video folder or if I'm working on multiple compositions within the same project, which I'll tend to do, I have many compositions right within one project, I might separate them into different folders. For example, I would typically have a name for these graphics, but I would call this graphic one and then within this graphic one folder, I would put all the music and all the photos that I used for this graphic and within this folder, I might even create sub folders for photos, for example, and then put the photos within that folder. I find it is going to help you a lot. If you learn to organize your footage, there's no right or wrong way to do it. I think you just kinda have to figure out what works best for you and it might change depending on the project but please keep everything organized as you work through your projects. It will just make you a better after effects user in the long run. How do you actually work with this footage or all of these assets that you're bringing in while you basically add them to your timeline. There's different ways to do that. Let me take this photo, for example and drag it into my composition, there's two ways to do it. You can drag it right onto your composition window itself or down into the timeline. Now, let me show you what happens when I drag it onto the composition, See it just pops in right there and you'll notice that this layer has been added to our after effects timeline down here and it's been added to this entire sequence or this entire composition from start to finish for all five seconds. Now, let me take the same photo again, drag it into the timeline. But you'll see now that as I drag from left to right, there's that little icon that moves left and right in the timeline bar and this is where it's going to start. So if I wanted to start at one second, for example, I'll just drop it right there and now you'll see that this photo Starts at 1/2. I can move the current time indicator to the right and see where this one starts. But you'll see that I don't see that photo that I just added down here and that's because it's beneath this other king room photo. So if I want, I can drag this second kangaroo photo this layer right here above the other one by clicking on it over here in the left hand side of the timeline, above our other kangaroo and you'll see that it actually added it to sort of a different position. This first one added to where I dropped it. Let me delete that one more time to show you. So if I want to move, drag it and drop it in over on the right hand side, I can do that. Now again, I'm going to move this beneath my other kangaroo layer and you'll see if I scrub through just by clicking and dragging through this composition. It goes from this photo to that photo. So think of after effects as layering different media assets on top of each other. Whatever is on top will show in the next lesson we'll be using and looking at some of the most important tools up here in the toolbar.

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Adding Media to Your Project and the Timeline

Adding Media to Your Project and the Timeline

Lesson Info

5. Adding Media to Your Project and the Timeline

Lessons

Class Updates & My Favorite CC 2020 Updates

Understand the After Effects Workspace

Starting a New Composition

CC 2018 Update - Starting a New Composition from Footage

Adding Media to Your Project and the Timeline

Using the Basic After Effects Tools

Create a Perfect Circle, Alignment, and Shape Colors

Working in the Timeline

Layer Properties

Quiz: After Effects Basics

Animating in After Effects

Position, Scale, and Rotation Animations

Tips to Make Your Animations Look More Nautral

Using the Graph Editor

Challenge - Bouncing Ball

Solution - Bouncing Ball

Quiz: Animating with Keyframes

Working with Solid Layers and the Ken Burns Effects

Working with Shape Layers, Strokes, and Paths

Adding Layer Styles like Drop Shadow, Bevel, and Gradients

Shape Effects - Trim Path Animations, Wiggle, and Zig Zag

Quiz: Shapes and Solid Layers

Track Matte Animations - Make Layers Appear and Disappear

Using Pre-Compositions to Group Layers

Easily Reverse Complicated Animations

Playing with Time

Blend Modes

Stabilize Shaky Footage

CC 2018 Update - Previewing and Favoriting Fonts

CC 2019 Update - Responsive Design Time

CC 2019 Content Aware Fill

CC 2019 Create Motion Graphic Templates

Quiz: Important After Effects Skills

Intro to Motion Graphics Projects

Clean Lower Third

Logo Reveal Animation Bumper

Colorful Transition

Text with Mask Path Animation

Text Bubble Animation

Weather App 1

Weather App 2

Weather App 3

Quiz: Motion Graphics Projects

Flat Animation Challenge

Phil Designs his Flat Animation Scene

Animating Fireworks with the Repeater Effect

Removing Green Screen Background

Adding a Background that Matches the Foreground

Adding Motion to a Still Image with the Puppet Tool

Adding Movement with the Ripple Effect

Quiz: Flat Animation Challenge

Intro to 3D

Swinging 3D Text Animation

Build Out Your 3D Composition

Animating Our 3D Scene

Create Stars in After Effects

Quiz: Green Screen (Chromakeying)

Using the Rotoscope Tool

Cleaning Up Your Edges

Finishing Our Rotobrush Animation

Quiz: 3D Animations and the Camera Tool

Easy Screen Replacement with Masks

Replacing a Screen Version 2

Screen Replacement with Mocha

CC 2019 Update - Native Mocha AE Plugin

Quiz: Rotoscoping

Using the Puppet Pin Tool

Animating Your Puppet Pins

Animated Blinking Eyes

Adding Perspective with Animated Clouds

CC 2018 Update - Advanced Puppet Pin Tool

Quiz: Screen Replacements

Applying Text Animation Presets

Create a Page Turn Effect with CC Page Turn