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Create a new After Effects project

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Create a new After Effects project

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In the last section, we moved through our six foundations, compositions, layers, animation, 3D, effects, and rendering, using as few steps as possible. Now, I'll dig in deeper with individual design examples. In an earlier lesson, you saw me get started by clicking the New Composition icon, New Composition from Footage, or using the File, Import menu. I'm going to show you a much more common way to get footage into After Effects. For that, I'll open a Finder window. This would be File Explorer on Windows. And drag a clip right over to the Project panel. With it there, I'm now free to create a composition by just dragging it over to the Composition Viewer. Or, if there's already a composition open, it's much more common to just drag it down to this colorful new composition icon here. Either way, I get that benefit that the pixel dimensions, frame rate, and duration all match that clip. Notice this blue outline around the timeline. You're probably familiar with the panels interface from…

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