The composition frame in the Composition panel in After Effects is similar to the Stage in Flash Professional. Only the area inside the composition frame is rendered for previews and final output. The offstage extents of layers-the portions not in the composition frame-are shown as rectangular outlines. The Composition panel contains the composition frame and a pasteboard area outside the frame that you can use to move layers into and out of the composition frame. Use the Composition panel to preview a composition and modify its contents manually. To select a composition in the Project panel, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) in the Composition panel or Timeline panel for the composition and choose Reveal Composition In Project from the context menu.

Double-click a composition entry in the Project panel to open the composition in its own Timeline panel.

In some places in the After Effects user interface, composition is abbreviated as comp.Įach composition has an entry in the Project panel. Simple projects may include only one composition complex projects may include hundreds of compositions to organize large amounts of footage or many effects. You render a composition to create the frames of a final output movie, which is encoded and exported to any number of formats. (See Layers and properties and Transparency and compositing.)Ī composition in After Effects is similar to a movie clip in Flash Professional or a sequence in Premiere Pro. You then arrange layers within a composition in space and time, and composite using transparency features to determine which parts of underlying layers show through the layers stacked on top of them. You add a footage item to a composition by creating a layer for which the footage item is the source. A typical composition includes multiple layers that represent components such as video and audio footage items, animated text and vector graphics, still images, and lights. A composition is the framework for a movie.

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