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So now that we know how to open 

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after effects, create a new composition

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and organize our project window

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with folders. 

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Let's take a look at the main interface 

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and what some of the buttons do. 

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So we'll start in the top toolbar. 

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This home button, 

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if you click this simply takes 

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you back to the home window, 

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where you can create a new project, 

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open a project 

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or a recent project 

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which will be down here 

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you'll never really need to use this.

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So pretty much ignore it. 

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If you hover over the 

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tools in the toolbar, 

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you'll see exactly 

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what the name for it is 

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and what the shortcut is. 

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So the Arrow is the selection tool,

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and the shortcut for this is V. 

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Essentially, 

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this does what it says on the tin. 

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It allows you to select 

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different things on the 

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screen and move them around.

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The next button is the hand tool, 

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which the shortcut is H 

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and this allows you 

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to drag your composition 

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around the screen 

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if you just click and drag like so.

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Next is the Zoom toll, 

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which the shortcut 

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is Z; again, this is something

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I don't really tend to use, 

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but it allows you to zoom 

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in on your composition 

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if you click down and press.

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I like to just use 

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the scroll wheel on my mouse

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to zoom in and out 

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as I feel it's quicker. 

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The tools next to this, 

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which are currently greyed out 

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are for 3-D cameras, 

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so we will ignore these for now, 

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which won't be going into 

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that much detail in this tutorial. 

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Next tool is rotation. 

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The shortcut for this is W, 

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which simply allows you to rotate

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the asset that's on your composition,

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control and Z to undo that. 

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The next tool is the pan behind

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or anchor point tool 

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and the shortcut for this is Y. 

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We'll go into a little bit 

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more detail about this shortly.

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The rectangle tool is next, 

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but this is more of a shape tool. 

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As you can see there's 

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a little dropdown arrow 

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on the right hand side, 

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and this means that there's more tools 

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available underneath this. 

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Those of you coming from Photoshop 

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might be familiar with this setup. 

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If I click and hold, 

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you can see the rest of the shapes 

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I can create are underneath it.

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Next to this is the pen tool 

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and the shortcut for this is G, 

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this is similar to the shape tool, 

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allows me to click 

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and create custom shapes, 

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and it can also be used to mask things 

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on your assets on the timeline.

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Next one along is the 

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horizontal type tool and the shortcut for

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this is control and T. 

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Once again, we can go 

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from horizontal type to vertical type.

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to be using horizontal type. 

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And then we have the brush 

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tool, clone stamp tool eraser 

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tool roto brush and puppet.

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Again, we're not going to go 

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into much detail in these 

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but it's just so 

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you can see what they are. 

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Right, so you'll see 

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in the top corner here 

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where it says Adobe after effects, 

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our project is actually untitled 

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and there's a star next to it, 

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which means it isn't saved anywhere. 

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So if we were to encounter 

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a crash or an error now, 

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our project wouldn't be saved. 

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So let's go ahead, go to file.

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Save as, 

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and then we'll save our project 

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in a specified folder. 

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As always, giving it a name, 

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so we know exactly what it is, 

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and then we'll hit save. 

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We're now going to take a quick 

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look down here just underneath

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our composition. 

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The magnification ratio pop up 

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essentially shows us how magnified

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our image is or the composition is.

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So as a general rule of thumb, 

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I like to keep this fit to 100%.

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And that's because, as you can see, 

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all of our windows 

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are separated by some lines, 

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which means we can click 

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drag and change the 

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after effects interface 

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to something that we more prefer. 

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If this is set to fit to 100%,

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it will always try to 

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fit your composition, 

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no matter how big or small this window.

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So I'll just take this back.

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And again, as you can 

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see, we can zoom out 

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using these parameters, 

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we can zoom in and out via a percentage.

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I leave it fit up to 100%.

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Next is our resolution 

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or downsample factor pop up. 

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And this is a way

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to enable your computer, 

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PC or Mac to render

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and RAM preview the footage 

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a little bit easier if it's struggling. 

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So if you're using high resolution 

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footage or quite processor 

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intensive codecs, 

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you can drop this down to half, third

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or quarter resolution. 

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If you just look at our footage, 

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you see how it changes in quality. 

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If we change it to a quarter, 

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if we zoom in 

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you can see the pixelation here 

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if we go back to full.

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You see, it's back to full resolution.

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on auto, which will essentially auto

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change the resolution, 

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as you're scrubbing through your timeline

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to enable your computer 

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to play it back in the 

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easiest possible way. 

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We have fast previews next to this, 

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which again, 

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you can have it to your final quality, 

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so it's always at the highest resolution 

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or adaptive resolution, 

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which again will change the resolution

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to ensure your computer 

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can play back your footage 

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nice and smoothly. 

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You have region of interest, 

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which is something that 

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great and guide options. 

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Now this can be helpful 

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for using things 

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such as title safe areas. 

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If we click this, 

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we see the grid pops up 

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where we should and should not put text 

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around the sides of our frame.

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such as proportional grids 

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to help with alignment. 

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and rulers if we need them. 

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Again, those of you coming from 

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with the ruler setting. 

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I'll just turn these off 

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by dropping down the menu 

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and clicking on those that I do

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or do not want as simple as that.

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Again, we have some other tools 

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just to the right hand side, 

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in these tutorials, 

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I don't want to overwhelm 

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you with too much information 

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in your second tutorial. 

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On our right hand side, we have a series

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of different dropdown menus 

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for effects, information 

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alignment and text tools. 

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We'll go through these and more details 

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as we further through this course. 

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But you can open these up 

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by simply clicking on the name

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and dropping down the menu as so.

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And as we mentioned 

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previously, down here is essentially

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our sequence or our composition timeline,

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where all of our layers will sit. 

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Thanks for watching.  In the next video,  I'll go through the 

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timeline in more detail 

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using layers and trimming the work area.