Working with footage items, Organize and view items in the project panel – Adobe After Effects CS3 User Manual

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AFTER EFFECTS CS3

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Choose Composition > New Composition, and then do one of the following:

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If your final output is DV, choose NTSC DV, 720 x 480 for Preset, and D1/DV NTSC (0.9) for Pixel Aspect Ratio.

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If your final output is D1, choose NTSC D1, 720 x 486 for Preset, and D1/DV NTSC (0.9) for Pixel Aspect Ratio.

Select your other composition settings as desired, and then click OK.

Add your footage to the new composition.

Select the layer containing the square-pixel footage and apply the Fit To Comp command: press Ctrl+Alt+F

(Windows) or Command+Option+F (Mac OS).

Note: If your footage was created and saved at a frame size other than those noted in step 1, skip step 7.

See also

“Change pixel aspect ratio” on page 55

Working with footage items

Organize and view items in the Project panel

Compositions and footage items are listed in the Project panel. Unlike items in the Timeline panel and Effect
Controls panel, the order of items in the Project panel has no influence on the appearance of the movies that you
create. This means that you can organize footage items and compositions however you like, including organizing
them using folders. Solids are automatically placed in the Solids folder.

Folders that you create in the Project panel exist only in the Project panel. You can expand a folder to reveal its
contents, and put folders inside other folders. To move a file or folder to the top level of the Project panel, drag it to
the gray information area at the top of the panel.

You can use the File > Collect Files command to gather copies of all files in a project into a single folder.

“Work with color labels” on page 149

“Shortcuts for working with projects” on page 639

Show information for items

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To show information about a footage item or composition, select it in the Project panel. Information is displayed
at the top of the Project panel next to the thumbnail image.

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To show the file creator ID for a footage item, Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) it in the Project
panel.

Create a folder

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Choose File > New > New Folder, or click the Create Folder icon

at the bottom of the Project panel.