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And in this video, we will be focusing on the main elements of the interface to get you up and running quickly. Now, it's important to note there are many different panels, buttons, switches and options to the interface.

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I am going to be working in a project I have already built but please feel free to follow along using any After Effects project. Let’s take a look at how the interface of After Effects is designed so you can begin to get comfortable navigating in the application. So, whenever you're working in After Effects it's always wise to keep all the elements you'd like to import into your project in one centralized location.

That's because After Effects projects don't embed external files, they reference where those files live on your hard drive. The way I have organized things on my hard drive I created a folder called Assets and anything that I thought I was going to import into any of these After Effects projects, I put in the Assets folder. I'll click here and you notice these are my project files. I'm going to navigate back one folder in my browser.

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So, if we look at the selected file you can see it's a compressed video file, an MP4 file, and its size is definitely larger than 1 Megabyte.

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So, let's do some further investigation by right-clicking on the video file and choose Reveal in Explorer if you're on Windows or Reveal in Finder if you're on the Mac. This is a video file, it should be larger than 1 Megabyte. If you click on any one of these files you'll get information at the top of the Project panel showing you a little bit about that file. In the Project panel if we look you'll notice I've already created a bunch of folders and organized several different elements like I have a Music file here, if we go down to the bottom I have Video Footage. Composition is just a stack of layers that create this composite. When you build graphic builds like this they'll be built in something called a Composition which is represented here in the Composition panel and down here in the Timeline. This is the panel where you will import and organize all the assets that you'll be using in your different After Effects projects. Click once in the Project panel to make it active and I know it's the Project panel because it says Project in the upper left-hand corner. If we go to the upper left corner of the interface there's this area called the Project panel.

And as you can see I've got video files in there, I've got graphics in there, let's take a closer look and figure out where these files actually are.

And just press the Spacebar to stop playback. If we just press the Spacebar we can preview the animation. Now as you can see in this After Effects project, I've got quite a lot of things going on. I'll click once on the Open & Save Projects file and then go to the lower right-hand corner and click the Open button to open that file. In fact, they're less than a megabyte a piece. Notice I have four different After Effects project files and if you come over here on the right-hand side you'll notice under the Size that none of them are particularly large. In the Open dialog box let's look at our project files. If you don't have these project files you can feel free to follow along using your own Assets. When the Open panel pops up navigate to your project files. But since I already created a project for us to work with I'm going to choose Open Project. Now usually when I get started I click on the New Project. Now obviously if you've never opened an After Effects project before you probably won't have anything in your list. And that gives me a list of the recent projects that I've opened. We're going to focus on the Work section and go to the upper left corner here and RECENT is selected. The first time you launch the application you'll notice the Start screen and working from the top down it's divided up into two sections, the Work section and the Learn section. As you first launch After Effects it's really important to understand how project files are saved and how all the assets that you'll be working with should be organized on your hard drive before you ever bring them into an After Effects project.