Composition setting after effect pdf

Composition settings after effect

Hey guys today we will discuss about composition settings 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 composition settings 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
• Composition Settings 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.

Composition Settings of After Effects

In previous User interface of after effect we have discuss about all sections of this software. ( click on this link for previous blog https://gtxmentor.blogspot.com/2020/04/after-effects-interface-and-introduction.html ). You can go that blog for better understanding of this blog. So let us Now discuss this article.

What is Composition in after effect?

All the work done by us in this software become a composition. Composition may contains number of layer, number of effects which you use in your work.

Now let us learn how to make composition in after effects?

How to make composition in after effects?

For starting any new work we have to make a composition in after effects. For making composition in it we can follow three options. First one is go to the menu bar and click on composition menu. Once you click on it a popup list will be open, now click on New composition option of the list.

The second options is go to Project panel (if you want to know name of all panel and section of this software then i would suggest u to go on Interface blog. The link is https://gtxmentor.blogspot.com/2020/04/after-effects-interface-and-introduction.html)

and press right button of mouse at anywhere in the area of this panel. A popup list will be open, click on New composition option of the list.

The third option is go to bottom end of this Project panel and click on this small icon of Create anew composition option.

You can choose any one of the three for making composition in this software.

Now once you click any one of the three, software will open a setting box which is Composition settings box. We have number of para meters in this box. Let us discuss them one by one.

First option is name. In this box you can name your composition for identify it in future when you save it. For example if i am making a logo animation then i can name it as 'My logo animation'. So you can name it according to your choice.

Now next option of the box is Presets of composition display window. You can understand it as the dimension of composition window which defines dimension of screen where your final out put will display. Here you can have number of presets in this list. You can choose any one of them or you can click on custom option and make your own dimension.

Next option is Frame rate. We measure it in fps that means frame per second. You can understand fps that how many frame your animation covers in a second.Here we have some pre-define frame rate. For example if you choose 24 then your animation will play 24 frame in a second.

Next is Duration. Duration defines how many second of animation you want to make. Just like i will type 10 then my animation will be of 10 sec.

This small box is for choosing color of your composition. This box is set at black color by default.

For changing the color of your composition window you have to click on this box. A popup color box will be open. You can choose your desired color from here.

At last when you done all settings according to you, click on the ok button for applying your desired settings.

This is all about composition settings of after effects software. In next blog we will discuss Layer panel of after effects.