From the course: Motion Design in After Effects
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Creating a custom workspace
From the course: Motion Design in After Effects
Creating a custom workspace
- [Instructor] Okay, so what I would like you to do is to go to the file menu and choose new, to create a new project. Next, I want you to click inside that project panel to make sure it is active and then double click in this gray empty portion to invoke the import dialogue. Navigate to the exercise files and inside the footage folder, select the Football Poster.ai, then click import, and now choose under import kind to import this document as a composition. So what we would like to do is to create a composition out of those layers that we've prepared inside Illustrator. Now over here, where it says footage dimensions, go ahead and choose layer size, which means that each one of the layers will be cropped to it minimal dimensions, which will make it much more easier to animate here inside After Effects. Then click okay. And then you will see inside the project, will have a football poster as well as a folder…
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