Adobe After Effects Flashcards
(105 cards)
If you want to be able to work with the individual layers of a Photoshop or Illustrator file, what option do you need to use when importing?
Import as a composition.
What are the primary differences between Premiere Pro and After Effects?
Premiere Pro is used to take bits from many different clips and arrange sequentially to create a project from start to finish, where After Effects is used to create complex visual effects, animated titles and work with 3D by stacking many visual elements on top of one another.
What tool allows you to zoom in and out of the timeline?
Zoom Tool.
What panel displays layers and keyframes?
Timeline Panel.
What panel holds all of your media, comps, and solids?
Project Panel.
What panel holds all of your tools?
Tool Bar.
What panel displays the composition’s visual elements?
Composition Panel.
If you get a little crazy moving panels around, how do you get back to the “standard” layout?
Window/Workspace/Reset “standard” to saved layout.
How can you set your autosave to 5 minutes?
Preferences/AutoSave dialog box.
What is attribution?
Attribution is acknowledgment as credit for the author of a work which is used or appears in another work. Include the title, author, source, and license.
What is intellectual property?
Intellectual property are creations of the mind and includes things like copyright, trademarks, and patents for artistic works, music, symbols, and designs.
What is derivative work?
Derivative work is a new, original product that includes aspects of a preexisting, already copyrighted work. Also known as a “new version,” this work can include musical arrangements, motion pictures, art reproductions, sound recordings or translations. They can also include dramatizations and fictionalizations, such as a movie based on a play.
What is public domain?
Public domain is the status of a literary work or an invention whose copyright or patent has expired or that never had such protection.
What is Fair Use?
Fair Use is the doctrine that brief excerpts of copyright material may, under certain circumstances, be quoted verbatim for purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching, and research, without the need for permission from or payment to the copyright holder.
What is Creative Commons?
Creative Commons is an American non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.
How do you keep the Project Panel organized?
Use folders to organize your media and compositions.
Why is it important to save your After Effects project in a specific place and organize your media?
- Makes it easier for other team members to work on the project.
- Makes it easier to backup your project.
- Makes it easier to find later.
What panel do you use to make adjustments to an effect once you have applied it?
Effect Controls.
What is the keyboard shortcut you hold when clicking on the animation stop watch that opens the expression panel?
Alt/Opt.
How do you apply an effect to a specific layer?
Drag it from the effects panel and drop it on the layer in the timeline or on the element in the comp window OR select the layer and then double click on the effect.
What do you call a little piece of code—much like a script—that evaluates to a value for a single layer property at a specific point in time?
Expression.
What is the keyboard shortcut for duplicating a layer/track?
Ctrl/Cmd + D.
What do you call an invisible layer that has all the properties of a visible layer so that it can be a parent to any layer in the composition?
Null Object.
What tool allows you to draw a path or create a custom mask in After Effects?
Pen Tool.
