How to learn about graphics designing software: After effects Interface and Introduction pdf

After Effects Interface

Hey guys today we will discuss about Interface of After effects and get introduce with this software. As we know After Effects is Motion graphics software which is used by many graphics editor for their professional works so let us now discuss the interface of this software.

But before starting our discussion on After Effects Software, i think we should know each and every point about After Effects software because after going through major content of After Effects, handling of this software throughout our article became easy task for us. So let me tell you the major points of our article, so that you can get brief knowledge about this article.

These are major points which we will discuss in this article:

What is After Effects?
System requirement of After Effects software
File Format supported by After Effects
Interface of After Effects

So these are four major points of our discussion in this article. Let us now discuss them one by one.

What is After Effects software?

After Effects is mainly used for video editing work by video editing professional but it has wide range of working area some of them are we can make Motion graphics in it, we can animate object or any logos in this software, we can manipulate any video footage as well in this software. You can use this software as additional software with some other graphics designing software as per your requirement.

System Requirement of After Effects Software:

After Effects software was developed by Adobe Inc. in January 1993 as video editing software and today it is a part of Creative Cloud desktop application of Adobe systems. This software is compatible with Windows 10, Mac OS and their later versions. If you want this software on your laptop or on personal computer or on tablet you need these system requirements which are as follows:

For Windows

Processor required: Multi-core Intel Processor (64 bit)
Operating system required: Microsoft Windows 10 (64 bit) and its later versions
RAM required: 16 GB minimum required (32 GB recommended)
Hard disk Space required: 5 GB required (Additional free space required during installation of software)
Monitor resolution required: 1280 X 1080 or greater

For Mac OS

Processor required: Multi-core Intel Processor (64 bit)
Operating system required: mac OS 10.13 and its later versions
RAM required: 16 GB minimum required (32 GB recommended)
Hard disk Space required: 6 GB required (Additional free space required during installation of software)
Monitor resolution required: 1440 X 900 or greater

Internet connection required for both for different purposes such as for activation key, for updating the software and many others.

Now after getting knowledge about systems requirement of After Effects software another question come into your mind. ‘What is that? Let me tell you it is ‘which type of files supports in this software. So let us have a look on supported file of this software.

Which type of file format supported by After Effects?

We have number of file format that are supported by After Effects but i will tell you some important file format here in this article for your knowledge. These file format are as follows:

Audio File Formats

MPEG (Moving Picture Expert Group) formats such as MPEG, MPG, MPE, MPA,M2V, MP2, M2A, M4A, M2T, M2P, MPV, VOB, MOD, AC3, MP4, M4A, M4A.

AIF/AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format): it can be import and export both.

WAV (Waveform) it can also be import and export both.

Image File Formats:

Al, PS, EPS (adobe illustrator): these can import only in this software.
PDF (Portable Document Format): It can import only.
PSD (adobe Photoshop): it can both import and export in this software.
BMP, DIB, RLE (Bitmap): It can import only in this software.
JPEG/JPG (Joint Photographic Expert Group): It can both import and export in this software.
PNG (Portable Network Graphics): It can import and export both in this software.
TIFF/TIF (Tagged Image File Format): It can both import and export in this software.

These are some file format that supported in this software on Audio file format and Image file format basis.

After Effects Interface

In the interface of After Effects we have number of sections which make its working easy for its user and provides a user friendly user interface. Today we will discuss all important sections of this software so that we can understand its working criteria. So guys let us start our article for getting knowledge about base of this software.

The user screen of after effects divided into few main sections. Let us start from the top of this software. At the top you will first find a Menu bar which contains different menus for performing different task in this software such as File menu, Edit menu, Composition menu and some other important menus.

Moving to next bar which is below to this menu bar this is Tool panel. It offers us some tools for performing graphics work in this software

Once you select any tool and use it for particular task, the properties of that tool can be seen at the right side of this tool bar.

For example let i take rectangle tool and draw a rectangle.

Now you can see there is number of properties shown in property bat which is at the right side of tool bar such as Fill of this rectangle, Strokes of this rectangle and some other properties are there in property bar of this rectangle shape.

Now when you come to the middle of this software. You will find three main sections here. The left side section is Project Panel, the center section is known as Composition window and the right one is sections of some important tabs. Let us have brief knowledge about these three sections.

Project Panel : This section contains all your imported file in it, it also show you composition made by you in your work.

Composition window: Every thing you made in this software is know as composition. You will see all your work in this window actually it work as display window for you.

Tabs section : In this section we have different type of tabs for making our work easy during use of this software. Some of tabs are Effects & Presets tab, Align tab, Preview tab and some other important tabs are there.

Now let us move to bottom section of this software. At the bottom of this software we have two important section of this software such as Layer section and Time line section. Let us have brief knowledge of these two sections.