Chapter 2: User Interface; Workspaces, Panels, And Viewers - Adobe 65008009 - After Effects CS4 Using Manual

Last updated 12/21/2009

Chapter 2: User interface

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

Workspaces, panels, and viewers

Workspaces
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.
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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.
For a video about 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
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