Classroom in a book

Looking at the Adobe After Effects workspace
In this exercise, you will animate the same lower third graphic that you did at 
the beginning of this lesson. You will import the same Photoshop file into Adobe 
After Effects, use After Effects tools to animate the three layers of the graphic, and 
then use Adobe Dynamic Link to link the After Effects animation into the Adobe 
Premiere Pro Timeline.
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In Adobe Premiere Pro, open Lesson 19-2.prproj.
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Launch Adobe After Effects.
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 Note:
Adobe 
Dynamic Link requires 
Adobe Creative Suite 
Production Premium. 
Purchasing Adobe 
Premiere Pro and Adobe 
After Effects separately 
will not allow Adobe 
Dynamic Link to work. 
Adobe Dynamic Link is 
a suite-based feature.

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LESSON 19
Using Photoshop and After Effects to Enhance Your Video Projects
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In After Effects, open the finished.aep file by choosing File > Open Project and 
selecting finished.aep from the Lesson 19 folder.
Notice the many similarities to the Adobe Premiere Pro user interface.
As with Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects has a Project panel, but the 
icons and terminology are a bit different. For instance, Adobe Premiere Pro 
sequences become 
compositions
in After Effects.
Double-clicking a composition (as shown here) opens it in the Timeline panel. 
Instead of tracks, you work with 
layers
in Adobe After Effects.
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Scrub the Adobe After Effects Timeline to see the final animation you will create.
5
After Effects may not be able to play back the animation in real time, depending 
on your computer speed. However, After Effects can do a RAM preview when 
you press the 0 (zero) key on the numeric keypad or click the RAM preview 
button in the playback controls. This renders the Timeline to RAM and then 
plays it back smoothly in real time.
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Close finished.aep by choosing File > Close Project.

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