From the course: Your First After Effects Project
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Creating a composition from footage
From the course: Your First After Effects Project
Creating a composition from footage
- [Narrator] So here I am back inside After Effect. And I'm going to start a new project and create everything that I showed you from scratch. If you want, you can always reference this Hawaii project. This is the end result in reverse engineering. But you can also work with me and create the things that I'm going to show you step by step. So I'm going to go to the file menu over here and under new, I'm going to create a new project. Now, After Effects can host two projects at the same time, so the previous project was closed. And if you made any changes, then you will be prompted to save them. But in my case, I just want to start fresh with an empty canvas. So I have these two big buttons that After Effects is showing me and encouraging me to create a new composition. So I can either click on this guy, and this is going to create a new composition which will allow me to select from one of the built in presets, or…
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