2. If you choose composition from the import as selection it brings in every layer at the size of the document. The composition cropped layers brings in every layer at the size of the layer. For footage you can merge layers into a still image.

3. After effects will recognize layers, visibility, opacity, layer blends modes, alpha channels, layer masks, adjustment layers, groups(aka folders), vector clipping paths, layer styles, guides, clipping groups, text(if converted), and video layers.

4. You can apply layer styles in after effects by right clicking on text layer and go to layer styles.

5. You can make text layers coming from photoshop editable in after effects by going to layer menu at the top of the screen and click convert to editable text.

6. You can export a frame as a layered photoshop file by  going to composition then save frame as photoshop layers.

7. Some of the creative things that you can do going between after effects and photoshop are making it a 3D layer and making it into a cube and make it glow because of integration. Change format to film strip.

2. If you hold “alt home key” or “option home key”

3. “alt left bracket”, “alt right bracket” I jumps you to the inpoint of the layer and O jumps you to the outpoint of the layer.

4. It opens the footage in a footage panel, and lets you edit it before you add it to your composition

5. The difference between the footage  and the layer panel is the layer can go into the comp by itself.

6. The slip edit function is to move the footage around while staying into set boundaries.

7. You can split a layer by going to the edit menu and clicking split layer

8. Stretching extends or shortens the video.

9. You can mask objects by selecting the rectangle and then using it in the panels of the composition.

10. You can create a track mask by adding or subtracting in the mask composition.

11. A garbage mask is similar to a green screen.

12.  The keylight  highlights the frame.

13.  You can remove a green screen in AE by masking it.

2. When you hold all modifier keys, automatically puts a curser in the middle your screen.

3. Auto-open-panels automatically show the character in the paragraph panels.

4. Leading is the space between lines of a paragraph. It got its name from an old printers technique.

5. Tracking is the space between the characters on a  line.

6. To animate portions of text by using the start, end, and offset scale from the range sector key.

7. The wiggly selector takes the value of opacity and adds it to random parts of the text.

8. To get to the text animation presets, you go to browse, then application folder, then the after effects CS3 folder where you will find a folder called presets.

9. U shows all key frames, and UU shows all the changes properties, applying UU you can look at what Adobe did to adjust or create them from scratch.

10. To display the safe zones you, go to the bottom of the composition panel and click the target key. They are used to show us the margin of what is going to be shown in the video.

2. Quality and size

3. You would use clip-notes in after effects to send-out your video for review. After Effects uses acrobat and reader. You can write notes in the timeline.

4. You can export to multiple sources by selecting the output module to duplicate the output module and hit render.

5. The shortcut to add a sequence to the render que is command shift question mark.

6. The compression type that you choose plays the biggest role in quality and file size when exporting.

7. CODEC stands for compression decompression.

8. The purpose of the dialogue  in Adobe Media Encoder is for a specific encoder.

9. The device central lets you preview content inside different devices.

2. You click the fx icon in the effects control panel or the master effects switch on the timeline panel

3. Motion blur is a property that you see while things move instead of them being crisp and clear

4. CC stands for ci-core a third party plug in maker

5. You  smooth your video out, make things brighter, or darker, or standard.

6. Making things move around in weird ways, and warp things, mock 3D space, swirl, liquify images.

7. Increase contrast, make layers glow, lens flare (like how a camera has flash), and CC light sweep gives a glare /depths/ and gives an edge on the text, or layer.

8. Shatter is an auto animating effect that is in 3-D. It shows pieces shattering.

9. Camera position tells you if the object is fully 3-d or not.

10. Some of the color correction tools in after effects are levels, the histogram, hue/sat, and tint.

11. Bridge lets you browse through presets.

2. You go to the column with the cube and check the box.

3. X is left t right, Y is up and down, and Z is closer to you and farther from you

4. Red, Green, and Blue

5. You typically dont want to animate the orientation

6. Its a fill in for a regular layer

7. The children layers inherit the parent layers anchor point etc.

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2. A marker lets you see points

3. Backwards lets it play backwards and Reverb makes it sound like its being played in a concert hall

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2. You use them to animate an image

3. Allows you to change your settings without ruining your composition

4. It paints

5. Records everything you do

2. Tweening comes from the people who took the keyframes and drew the frames that came in between, it is known as interpelation.

3. You hit the zero on the numeric key pad.

4. The home key, The end key, The page down key, and the shift key.

5. You will create another key frame.

6. It resets the layer.

7. T, R, A, P, S

8. You click the reset button next to transform.

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2. Easing is like the intro into manipulating the interpolation

3. Easy ease out tells after effects to start slow and go faster, you apply it by selecting it and hitting “u”

4. Easy ease in is the opposite as easy ease out so it will go faster at first and slow down towards the end.

5. Easy ease allows you to change the velocity of the animation.

6. motion sketch allows you to draw a path for an object to follow and it records the speed at which you draw it.

7. The wiggler allows you to create random values for properties

8. The smoother kind of explains itself and smooths out paths

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