Welcome to the Get Started with After Effects tutorials, designed to teach you the basic tools and techniques of working in Adobe After Effects CC. This tutorial introduces you to the process of launching the application, importing, and organizing assets in the Project panel. Open and save projects Open, create, and save new projects. What you learned: Open or create projects The Start screen contains a list of previously opened projects. Click the New Project button on the Start screen to create a new project, or the Open Project button to open a project file. Tour the interface Get to know the interface. What you learned: The interface Active panels are highlighted in blue. When you click any panel you make it active and are able to access its options. Menu bar (at the very top) shows the File, Edit, Composition, and other menus that give you access to a variety of commands, adjustments, and panels. Tools panel (under the menu bar, upper left) contains tools for ad