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Workspaces, panels, and viewers Workspaces and panels Viewers Workspaces and panels To the top Adobe video and audio applications provide a consistent, customizable user interface. Although each application has its own set of panels, you move and group panels in the same way in each application. The main window of a program is the application window. Panels are organized in this window in an arrangement called a workspace. Each application includes several predefined workspaces that optimize the layout of panels for specific tasks. You can also create and customize your own workspaces by arranging panels in the layout that best suits your working style for specific tasks. You can drag panels to new locations, move panels into or out of a group, place panels alongside each other, and undock a panel so that it floats in a new window above the application window. As you rearrange panels, the other panels resize automatically to fit the window. Example workspace A. Application window B. Grouped panels C. Individual panel To increase the available screen space, use multiple monitors. When you work with multiple monitors, the application window appears on the main monitor, and you place floating windows on the second monitor. Monitor configurations are stored in the workspace. Workspaces are stored in XML files in the preferences folder. With some caveats regarding monitor size and layout, these workspaces can be moved to another computer and used there. (Windows) [drive]:\Users\[user_name]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\After Effects\10.5\ModifiedWorkspaces (Mac OS) [drive]/Users/[user_name]/Library/Preferences/Adobe/After Effects/10.5/ModifiedWorkspaces Chris and Trish Meyer provide a video overview of the After Effects user interface on the Focal Press website. See this video tutorial about workspaces by Andrew Devis on the Creative Cow website for more details. Online resources about panels and workspaces For a video about panels and workspaces, go to the Adobe website: www.adobe.com/go/vid0249. Chris and Trish Meyer provide a video overview of the After Effects user interface on the Focal Press website. Choose a workspace Choose Window > Workspace, and select the desired workspace.

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What's new in CS6	3
What’s new in After Effects CS5.5	8
What’s new in After Effects CS5	9
After Effects getting started tutorials	15
Learn After Effects CS5 and CS5.5	16
Planning and setup	18
Setup and installation	22
Workflows	24
Workspace and workflow	27
Setup and installation	28
Workflows	30
Planning and setup	33
Working with After Effects and other applications	37
Dynamic Link and After Effects	43
Workspaces, panels, and viewers	46
General user interface items	51
Keyboard shortcuts reference	54
Modify keyboard shortcuts	72
Preferences	73
Projects and compositions	76
Projects	77
Timecode and time display units	80
Composition basics	82
Precomposing, nesting, and pre-rendering	87
Importing footage	92
Importing and interpreting video and audio	93
Working with footage items	98
Importing from After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro	103
Importing and interpreting footage items	107
Preparing and importing 3D image files	118
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Layers and properties	128
Creating layers	129
Selecting and arranging layers	133
Managing layers	141
Layer properties	145
Blending modes and layer styles	153
3D layers	158
Cameras, lights, and points of interest	163
Views and previews	171
Previewing	172
Modifying and using views	181
Animation and Keyframes	185
Animation basics	186
Setting, selecting, and deleting keyframes	189
Editing, moving, and copying keyframes	192
Assorted animation tools	196
Keyframe interpolation	202
Speed	207
Tracking and stabilizing motion	213
Tracking 3D Camera Movement (CS6)	225
Animating with Puppet tools	228
Time-stretching and time-remapping	234
Color	241
Color basics	242
Color management	250
Drawing, painting, and paths	258
Paint tools: Brush, Clone Stamp, and Eraser	259
Overview of shape layers, paths, and vector graphics	266
Creating shapes and masks	271
Managing and animating shape paths and masks	279
Shape attributes, paint operations, and path operations for shape layers	287
Text	293
Creating and editing text layers	294
Formatting characters and the Character panel	299
Formatting paragraphs and the Paragraph panel	304
Animating text	306
Extruding text and shape layers (CS6)	315
Examples and resources for text animation	320
Transparency and compositing	325
Compositing and transparency overview and resources	326
Alpha channels, masks, and mattes	328
Keying	337
Roto Brush and Refine Matte	340
Effects and animation presets	345
Effects and animation presets overview	346
Effect list	368
3D Channel effects	376
Audio effects	381
Blur & Sharpen effects	384
Channel effects	390
The rolling shutter repair effect (CS6)	395
Color Correction effects	396
Distort effects	408
Generate effects	421
Keying effects	435
Matte effects	443
Noise & Grain effects	445
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Stylize effects	488
Text effects	497
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XMP metadata	519
Memory, storage, performance	524
Memory and storage (CS5.5, and earlier)	525
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GPU (CUDA, OpenGL) features in After Effects CS6	534
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Expressions and automation	544
Plug-ins	545
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Expression basics	550
Expression language reference	561
Expression examples	578
Rendering and Exporting	582
Basics of rendering and exporting	583
Rendering and exporting for Flash Professional and Flash Player	596
Rendering and exporting still images and still-image sequences	602
Automated rendering and network rendering	604
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Workspaces and panels

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Workspaces and panels

Adobe video and audio applications provide a consistent, customizable user interface. Although each application has its own set of panels, you

move and group panels in the same way in each application.

The main window of a program is the application window. Panels are organized in this window in an arrangement called a workspace.

Each application includes several predefined workspaces that optimize the layout of panels for specific tasks. You can also create and customize

your own workspaces by arranging panels in the layout that best suits your working style for specific tasks.

You can drag panels to new locations, move panels into or out of a group, place panels alongside each other, and undock a panel so that it floats

in a new window above the application window. As you rearrange panels, the other panels resize automatically to fit the window.

Example workspace

Application window

Grouped panels

Individual panel

To increase the available screen space, use multiple monitors. When you work with multiple monitors, the application window appears on the main

monitor, and you place floating windows on the second monitor. Monitor configurations are stored in the workspace.

Workspaces are stored in XML files in the preferences folder. With some caveats regarding monitor size and layout, these workspaces can be

moved to another computer and used there.

(Windows) [drive]:\Users\[user_name]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\After Effects\10.5\ModifiedWorkspaces

(Mac OS) [drive]/Users/[user_name]/Library/Preferences/Adobe/After Effects/10.5/ModifiedWorkspaces

Chris and Trish Meyer provide a video overview of the After Effects user interface on the

Focal Press website

See

this video tutorial about workspaces by Andrew Devis

on the Creative Cow website for more details.

Online resources about panels and workspaces

For a video about panels and workspaces, go to the Adobe website:

www.adobe.com/go/vid0249

Chris and Trish Meyer provide a video overview of the After Effects user interface on the

Focal Press website

Choose a workspace

Choose Window > Workspace, and select the desired workspace.