From the course: Final Cut Pro X Guru: Motion Graphics in Motion and After Effects
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Keeping your projects organized - Final Cut Pro Tutorial
From the course: Final Cut Pro X Guru: Motion Graphics in Motion and After Effects
Keeping your projects organized
- Just like working in Motion or any motion graphic application, organization is key. Let's look at ways of how we can keep organized in After Effects as we begin to learn it. So here I'm in an After Effects project, that's on your drive in the After Effects folder called Chapter 4 Lessons. In the next few lessons they'll be a series of projects for us to follow along as you can see displayed here. So just keep that in mind as we go through the process. I also have a composition open here with the Toronto timeline footage you saw from the last movie. How I got that in was pretty simple. In the project panel, all I did was double-click, and I went to the location where that file was in in order to import it into my After Effects projects. Since I just wanted the footage file to be the size of the composition I took the file and dropped it onto the new composition button and a project was then created, or a composition was created based on the length, frame rate, frame size of the clip.…
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Options for sending clips to After Effects2m 46s
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Keeping your projects organized3m 26s
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Working in real time1m 59s
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Working with and animating After Effects text with presets7m 53s
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Animating After Effects text manually5m 43s
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The power of After Effects shapes7m 51s
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Importing Illustrator and Photoshop files in After Effects4m 36s
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Animating an Photoshop file in After Effects7m 54s
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Adding a 3D camera to the logo animation8m 25s
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Options for animating Illustrator files2m 50s
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Exporting a logo animation to FCP X2m 10s
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Replacing or connecting After Effects projects in the FCP X timeline3m 18s
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Using Automatic Duck AEX import7m 56s
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Timesaving techniques in After Effects2m 34s
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