Adobe After Effects Basics Tutorial 2/7 - Compositions And Pre-Composing

Adobe After Effects Basics Tutorial 2/7 - Compositions And Pre-Composing

Are you just starting out with After Effects? Here is an excellent tutorial to teach you one of the fundamental concepts of creating amazing visual effects: using compositions and pre-composing.

Any effect you create inside of Adobe After Effects will be wrapped in a special container called a composition. A composition contains your footage/image layers so that you can manage them, group them and create reusable elements. In this tutorial I show you how

You can find a detailed written version of this tutorial with step by step instructions on my website:

http://www.surfacedstudio.com/tutorials/after-effects-basics-compositions-and-pre-composing

Here is the fireball explosion stock footage I used:
http://www.detfilmsmirror.com/Stock-mov/FireballAgainstBlack01.mov.zip

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Adobe After Effects Basics Tutorial 2/7 - Compositions And Pre-Composing