Importing your work into After Effects
September 9, 2006 | 0 comments
Importing your work into After Effects
After Effects saves links to the project resources as footage items in the Project panel. Footage items are then used as layers in a composition.
To import your graphic to After Effects:
- Launch After Effects 7.0. By default a new project is open. You can also choose File > New Project.
- To create a new composition, select Composition > New Composition.
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The Composition Settings dialog box appears. Set the composition settings as following:
- Insert Star Composition as the name of your composition in the Composition Name text box.
- Choose Custom from the Preset pop-up menu.
- Set the width to 640 and the height to 480 pixels.
- Choose Square Pixels from the Pixel Aspect Ratio pop-up menu (Frame Aspect Ratio: 4:3).
- Set the Frame rate to 30 frames per second.
- Set the Resolution to Full.
- Set the Start Timecode to 0;00;00;00.
- Set the Duration to 0;00;01;00.
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Click OK to accept these settings (see Figure 2).
- To import the graphic, choose File > Import > File.
- Choose star.png and click Open.
- Drag the star footage item from the Project panel to your Composition panel. By default, After Effects inserts it on a new layer in the Timeline panel.
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Expand the layer properties by clicking the right arrow next to the layer name and examine the Transform properties (see Figure 3).
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