User Guide

CHAPTER 1
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Working with Projects, Windows, and Palettes
Each Composition window has a corresponding Timeline window. When you edit a
composition in a Composition window, After Effects automatically displays the corre-
sponding Timeline window, and vice versa.
A. Source footage B. Project window C. Composition window D. Timeline window
As you work with compositions, you also use three other types of windows: Footage
windows, Layer windows, and Effect Controls windows.
• Footage windows are useful for viewing and evaluating footage items in their original
form (see “Viewing imported footage” on page 93).
• To view a layer’s original source independently of other layers or to trim footage, you can
open a Layer window (see “Composition, Layer, and Footage window controls” on
page 53).
• As you work with effects, you use the Effect Controls window to modify and animate the
effects (see “Working with effects” on page 269).
When you render your compositions into a movie, you work in the Render Queue window
to select rendering options and queue compositions for rendering (see “Using the Render
Queue window” on page 355).
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