From the course: After Effects Guru: Templates for Premiere Pro and After Effects
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Understanding composition structure - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Guru: Templates for Premiere Pro and After Effects
Understanding composition structure
- When you download an After Effects template, it's important to understand how the project is intended to work. While it's impossible to go through all the template workflows that exist, in this movie, we'll look at a real world template, and how we can become more familiar with changing it. So, I'm here in my Chapter 2.1 composition, and I've accessed that in a new project that we're working on in this chapter called, Template Example Chapter 2. That can be found in the Chapter 2 folder of the exercise files that you downloaded, if you have that with your membership. Now, here's the template, and I'm just going to use my current time mitigator to move through it. Well, we see some video. That's actually those lovely little color bars, which really just screams out, "Please replace me." Along with two pieces of text that we can replace. So this isn't a full template, but this is just some pieces of a template to get you familiar with how they might look if you've download them…
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