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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 adding and editing elements in your compositions. Similar tools are grouped together. You can access related tools in a group by clicking and holding a tool in the panel.
Project panel (upper left corner below the Tools panel) is the area where you import, search, and organize assets in your After Effects projects. In the bottom of the panel you can create new folders and compositions as well as change item and project settings.
Composition panel (center) is a viewport showing the currently loaded composition. Compositions contain one or more layers of video and or graphic elements stacked in the timeline.
Timeline (bottom) displays layers of the currently loaded composition.
Close a project: Choose File > Close Project.

Import media
Import assets for use in a project.