After effects workshop two.

Temperal; the timeline allows you to place things in time. 

Set up for artwork that is to be taken into after effects from photoshop. 

There is an actual film/video preset option that automatically selects the correct options. 

Guides are automatically added and specify safe zones for you to work within. 

There is always the option to get the guides in after effects. 

Always have artwork with a transparent background and save as a PSD.

To import to after effects import the work as footage.

Once imported it will appear in the project section of after effects. 

To add artwork to the composition drag it across to this window.

When artwork has layers it needs to be imported as a composition. 

The layers appear in the project section seperately. 

To add the same position change you can select all of the layers, then move the red line and change the position of each seperate layer. 

To scale all the layers at the same time select them all. 

If you import but retain layer sizes it means you can scale each letter seperately because they have their own anchor points. 

There is also the option for film/video in illustrator to create artwork with a frame. 

When you intially change the size of the text it blurs. The button with three circles in after effects can apply motion blur to the artwork for emphasis on the movement. So the artwork is no longer blurry you can click the sunshine button so the artwork becomes continuously rasterized and it brings it back into focus. 

This option gathers all the files together that the piece of video needs to work. It creates a new folder with all of these files in.