Adobe After Effects 7 - How to Work within the Project Panel Video

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Adobe After Effects 7 - How to Work within the Project Panel

Now, we are not going to choose Close Project because we do have files here that we are ready to work with. And now we are going to focus on the contents of the project window itself. So, let us go ahead and give ourselves a little bit more room to focus on here in the project windows. I am going to position the cursor on the lower right hand side and just expand the width and the height so we can see a little bit more what is going on. Now the way that the footages organized here inside the window, is currently by name and you can see different column headings across the top here that can allow us to organize them in a slightly in different ways. What I normally intend to do, is click here on the Type column header and that will organize the list of footage into groups according to their software that we are created in. So the first thing we see here at the top is a folder. If you twirl that down you can see there is a list of Photoshop documents in there, just close it up for a second. The next thing we see are 3 compositions that have all been created inside of After Effects and we have already opened one of these before. Beneath that we now have a series of Photoshop files again. We have some quick time movies, a couple of soundtracks, and an illustrated file down here at the bottom. Now, currently I have intro clips selected and you can see that there is a thumbnail that appears in the upper left hand side here at the project window. And this actually gives you useful information regarding the resolution, the pixel aspect ratio, the duration, and also the frame rate of any particular movie clip you might select. So, in this case is an After Effect project selected that you can see a 720 x 540 which is actually a square pixel resolution and you can also confirm that by seeing the pixel aspect ratio here is actually set to 1, so it is perfectly square. Duration is just over 7 seconds and a full NTSC frame rate of 29.97 frames per second. Now, if I come further down the list to say, “AB Ultra Water.mov”, just click on that to highlight it and you can see that this one is in fact, 724 x 486 which is D-1 resolution and its pixel aspect ratio is 0.9, so it is actually using rectangular pixels. Smaller duration, same frame rate is actually millions of colors and has been compressed using a Photo Jpeg compressors. So, very useful in having this information here but it also relates to Photoshop and illustrates the files as well. So, I am going come down and select the Golden Gate.psd and you can see that it is in fact, 1280 x 720 which is HD resolution, and that is also square pixels. Finally, if you click on the illustrated file at the bottom, this is Streettitles.AI. You can see that this one is again exactly the same HD resolution but this one tell us, is millions of colors plus and this means the house transparency in it and After Effects is recognizing the alpha channel. Now I will go into that in much more detail later on. But it is just very interesting to see how much information you can get simply from selecting something and looking up here at the top of the project window. Now, I note the useful thing about this, if we come down and select this clip the “AB virtual insanity movie” you will see that next to its name up here, there is small dropdown menu and it does actually say to decide, it is used 2 times. We come over to something else such as the Ultra Water, and you will notice it does not actually have that. The virtual insanity after effects is telling us is to use twice in this entire project and if you click and hold on the pop down menu, it will actually tell you where it has been used. In this case, the intro bank draft composite and is also being highlighted as layer 1 and layer 2, that actually means that this clip has been used twice inside the same composition. The reason of this, is usually if you select in this case either one of those, the after effects will not only open that composition here in the right hand side but also highlight that clip in the timeline according to the layer that you sele

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Now, we are not going to choose Close Project because we do have files here that we are ready to work with. And now we are going to focus on the contents of the project window itself. So, let us go ahead and give ourselves a little bit more room to focus on here in the project windows. I am going to position the cursor on the lower right hand side and just expand the width and the height so we can see a little bit more what is going on.

Now the way that the footages organized here inside the window, is currently by name and you can see different column headings across the top here that can allow us to organize them in a slightly in different ways.

What I normally intend to do, is click here on the Type column header and that will organize the list of footage into groups according to their software that we are created in. So the first thing we see here at the top is a folder. If you twirl that down you can see there is a list of Photoshop documents in there, just close it up for a second.

The next thing we see are 3 compositions that have all been created inside of After Effects and we have already opened one of these before. Beneath that we now have a series of Photoshop files again. We have some quick time movies, a couple of soundtracks, and an illustrated file down here at the bottom.

Now, currently I have intro clips selected and you can see that there is a thumbnail that appears in the upper left hand side here at the project window. And this actually gives you useful information regarding the resolution, the pixel aspect ratio, the duration, and also the frame rate of any particular movie clip you might select.

So, in this case is an After Effect project selected that you can see a 720 x 540 which is actually a square pixel resolution and you can also confirm that by seeing the pixel aspect ratio here is actually set to 1, so it is perfectly square. Duration is just over 7 seconds and a full NTSC frame rate of 29.97 frames per second.

Now, if I come further down the list to say, “AB Ultra Water.mov”, just click on that to highlight it and you can see that this one is in fact, 724 x 486 which is D-1 resolution and its pixel aspect ratio is 0.9, so it is actually using rectangular pixels. Smaller duration, same frame rate is actually millions of colors and has been compressed using a Photo Jpeg compressors.

So, very useful in having this information here but it also relates to Photoshop and illustrates the files as well. So, I am going come down and select the Golden Gate.psd and you can see that it is in fact, 1280 x 720 which is HD resolution, and that is also square pixels.

Finally, if you click on the illustrated file at the bottom, this is Streettitles.AI. You can see that this one is again exactly the same HD resolution but this one tell us, is millions of colors plus and this means the house transparency in it and After Effects is recognizing the alpha channel.

Now I will go into that in much more detail later on. But it is just very interesting to see how much information you can get simply from selecting something and looking up here at the top of the project window.

Now, I note the useful thing about this, if we come down and select this clip the “AB virtual insanity movie” you will see that next to its name up here, there is small dropdown menu and it does actually say to decide, it is used 2 times.

We come over to something else such as the Ultra Water, and you will notice it does not actually have that. The virtual insanity after effects is telling us is to use twice in this entire project and if you click and hold on the pop down menu, it will actually tell you where it has been used. In this case, the intro bank draft composite and is also being highlighted as layer 1 and layer 2, that actually means that this clip has been used twice inside the same composition.

The reason of this, is usually if you select in this case either one of those, the after effects will not only open that composition here in the right hand side but also highlight that clip in the timeline according to the layer that you sele

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