After Effects - Software Induction One.

Setting up a document. 

Open Adobe After Effects.  

Tip: The area that is highlighted is the area which you are working on, this is the area that is shown with a yellow boarder around the outside. 

To create a new document you need to click on, create new composition, this is where you get to work on what you need to to make this new style of work, this looks like this below. 

 

To get the correct set up for your document you need to set it up as follows. 

Enter a name that will recognise your composition.

Change the "preset" to the correct one for the work that you plan on doing.

this should then change the rest of the settings to the right standard for you. 

If you need to you, can change the duration of the time that your file will play for and also the background colour if needed.

IF YOU NEED TO CANGE THESE SETTINGS AGAIN. YOU CAN EITHER 

cmd K

or 

Composition   >   Composition Settings. 

to create a shape in after effects, you need to go to layer  >  new  >  then click the section which you want, for this session we got told to click solid, then change the pixel size to 100 for each side. 

if i need to be precise that i need to be with the frames or times within my composition, then i can use the small yellow tabs on the top bar in the bottom section of this program, this allows me to see in much more detail what im looking at. 

to change the amount of time something is on the document and visible within your time, you click the red bar and then drag and change the time/frames to which i can see it. 

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IF YOUR COMPUTER IS STRUGGLING TO HANDLE WHAT IS HAPPENING WHEN TRYING TO RENDER WHAT IS GOING ON, CLICK ON THE SECTION NEXT TO THE SMALL CIRCLES BELOW THE MAIN SCREEN, CHANGE THESE TO HALF / THIRD / QUATER AND THE QUALITY WILL BE CHANGED TO HELP YOUR MAC RUN FASTER