Adobe 65008009 - After Effects CS4 Using Manual page 87

Last updated 12/21/2009
Show information for items
• To show information about a footage item or composition, select it in the Project panel. Information is displayed
at the top of the Project panel next to the thumbnail image.
• To show the file creator ID for a footage item, Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) it in the Project panel.
Create a folder
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Choose File > New > New Folder, or click the Create A New Folder icon
Rename and sort items
• To rename a composition, footage item, or folder, do one of the following:
• Select the item in the Project panel, press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS), and enter the new name.
• Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the item, choose Rename, and enter the new name.
• To rename the Comment column, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the column heading and
choose Rename This.
You can use the Comment column to create a custom sorting option. Rename the column, enter corresponding
information for each item (for example, camera number), and then sort by that column.
• To sort items by entries in any column, click the column name in the Project panel.
Copy items
• To duplicate or copy an item in the Project panel, select it and choose Edit > Duplicate or Edit > Copy.
• To copy a footage item to Windows Explorer (Windows) or the Finder (Mac OS), drag the footage item from the
Project panel to the desktop.
Reveal footage items
• To reveal where a footage item is used in a composition, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the
footage item in the Project panel and choose Reveal In Composition; then select the specific instance you want to
reveal (composition name, layer name).
• To reveal the source footage item for a layer in the Project panel, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS)
the layer in the Timeline panel, and then choose Reveal Layer Source In Project.
• To reveal the location of a footage item in Adobe Bridge, Windows Explorer, or the Finder, right-click (Windows)
or Control-click (Mac OS) the footage item in the Project panel and choose Reveal In Bridge, Reveal In Windows
Explorer, or Reveal In Finder.
Refresh footage items
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To refresh footage items selected in the Project panel to use the current versions of the source footage files, choose
File > Reload Footage.
The Footage panel
When you double-click a movie in the Project panel, it opens by default in the Footage panel or in a player window:
QuickTime (.mov) files open in a QuickTime Player window; Video for Windows (.avi) files open in a Video for
Windows player window. Still images always appear in the Footage panel. The AVI player window does not support
the playback of certain AVI files; these files open in the After Effects Footage panel. Such files include files created with
the Microsoft DirectX DV codec and all files over 2 GB.
USING AFTER EFFECTS CS4
Importing and managing footage items
at the bottom of the Project panel.
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