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Creative Motion Mastery with Adobe After Effects

You're reading from   Creative Motion Mastery with Adobe After Effects Learn the ins and outs of motion graphics, post-production, rotoscoping, and VFX

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804617281
Length 332 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vishu Aggarwal Vishu Aggarwal
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Working with Motion Graphics
2. Chapter 1: Getting to Know the User Interface and Workflow FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Applying Effects and Presets to Create Animated Graphics 4. Chapter 3: Deep-Dive into Text Animations 5. Chapter 4: Animating Shape Layers 6. Chapter 5: Adding Motion to Photoshop and Illustrator Graphics 7. Chapter 6: Creating Motion Graphic Templates for Premiere Pro 8. Part 2: Post-Production and Visual Effects
9. Chapter 7: Color Correction and Color Grading 10. Chapter 8: Rotoscoping and Mask Tracking Techniques 11. Chapter 9: Chroma Keying 12. Chapter 10: Working with Particle Simulations 13. Part 3: 2D and 3D Tracking, and Rendering
14. Chapter 11: Working with 2D and 3D Tracking 15. Chapter 12: Exporting and Managing Projects 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Archiving a project

Archiving an After Effects project involves packaging all the project files, assets, and necessary resources in a single folder for backup or sharing purposes.

Follow these steps to archive a project:

  1. In After Effects, go to File | Dependencies | Collect Files…. If After Effects shows a dialog box to save the project, click on Save.
Figure 12.15: Collect Files… under the File menu

Figure 12.15: Collect Files… under the File menu

  1. In the open Collect Files dialog box, make sure that Collect Source Files is set to All.

Note

If you choose the Selected Comps option under Collected Source Files, then Collect Files will only collect the files of the selected compositions in the Project panel and save them, discarding the other compositions and their data from the new collected files project.

  1. Check the Reveal collected project in Finder when finished option if not already checked (if you are using Windows, this option will be displayed as...
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