Basic workflow tutorial: create a simple movie – Adobe After Effects User Manual
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6. Render and export
Add one or more compositions to the render queue to render them at the quality settings you choose and to create movies in the formats that you
specify. For more information, see Basics of rendering and exporting and encoding quick start.
Getting Started with After Effects
Basic workflow and terminology overview
Online resources for general workflow in After Effects
Read a basic step-by-step introduction to the general workflow in an excerpt
.
Read Trish and Chris Meyer’s step-by-step introduction to creating a basic animation in a
.
For an overview of After Effects project navigtion, see the video tutorial,
Jeff Sengstack and Infinite Skills.
Basic workflow tutorial: Create a simple movie
This tutorial assumes that you have already started After Effects and have not modified the empty default project. This example skips the step of
importing footage and shows you instead how to create your own synthetic visual elements. After you have rendered a final movie, you can import
it into After Effects to view it and use it as you would any other footage item.
Some people prefer to use the mouse and menus to interact with After Effects, whereas others prefer to use keyboard shortcuts for common tasks.
For several steps in this example, two alternative commands are shown that produce the same result—the first demonstrating the discoverability of
menu commands and the second demonstrating the speed and convenience of keyboard shortcuts. You’ll likely find that you use some
combination of keyboard shortcuts and menu commands in your work.
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