From the course: Getting Started in After Effects for InDesign Users

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Save and "publish" your animation

Save and "publish" your animation - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: Getting Started in After Effects for InDesign Users

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Save and "publish" your animation

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- [Instructor] We've been working on the fly here but now it's time to take care of some of the fundamentals, organizing saving and exporting. Really, saving should come first. Normally I wouldn't wait this long to save my project. And so now, I'm just going to go ahead and do that. I'll call it China. I guess that there's an extra benefit to saving early. Once you do save, you also start to get auto-save files. After Effects saves these every 20 minutes, by default. You can set a different interval and it saves your last five versions. This has saved me many times. I've also been lazy about organizing my project and that happens. But if this is ever going to be seen by anybody else, then I might want it to make a little bit more sense. So here in the timeline, I can customize the name. Here, I could call this background. And up here, I'm fine with the original footage name. But the folder is called solids, which is…

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