About The Flowchart Panel; To Remove Footage From A Project; To Set The Thumbnail View For A Composition; To Add A Transparency Grid To The Thumbnail View - Adobe AFTER EFFECTS 7.0 Manual

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To delete an item from the project, select it and choose Edit > Clear.
You can copy footage items from After Effects and paste them into an Adobe Premiere Pro sequence, as well as copy
track items from Adobe Premiere Pro and paste them into an After Effects composition.
See also
"Copying between After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro (Windows only)" on page 126

To remove footage from a project

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To eliminate an item from a project, select the item in the Project panel and press Delete.
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To remove all unused footage items from a project, choose File > Remove Unused Footage.
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To remove all duplicate footage items from a project, Choose File > Consolidate All Footage. Note that After
Effects considers footage items to be duplicates only if they use the same Interpret Footage settings.
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To remove unselected compositions and unused footage items from selected compositions in the Project panel,
choose File > Reduce Project. This command is available only when the Project panel is active, and removes both
unused footage items and all other compositions that are not included within a selected composition as nested
(subordinate) compositions.
If the selected composition includes items that are turned off (that is, the Video or Audio switch is deselected in the
Timeline panel), the Reduce Project command does not remove those items.
Note: If an expression in a selected composition refers to an element in a nonsubordinate composition, Reduce Project
removes the nonsubordinate composition and the applied expression. The message that appears after you choose Reduce
Project reminds you of this possibility, so you can undo the command if needed. To avoid removing the expressions from
a nonsubordinate composition, drag the nonsubordinate composition into the composition that refers to it. Then deselect
the Audio and Video switches for the composition that you added.

To set the thumbnail view for a composition

The Set Poster Time command lets you specify which frame is used for the thumbnail that's displayed for a compo-
sition in the Project panel. By default, a composition's thumbnail shows the first frame of the composition.
1 Double-click the composition in the Project panel.
In the Timeline panel, move the current time marker to the desired spot.
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Make the Composition panel active, and choose Composition > Set Poster Time.
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Note: To hide the thumbnail view, choose Edit > Preferences > Display (Windows) or After Effects > Preferences >
Display (Mac OS) and select Disable Thumbnails In The Project Window.

To add a transparency grid to the thumbnail view

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Choose Thumbnail Transparency Grid from the Project panel menu. A check mark indicates that the grid is
turned on.

About the Flowchart panel

After Effects provides a separate Flowchart panel for each composition and for the overall project to help you keep
a big-picture perspective on complex projects. In the Flowchart panel, individual boxes (or tiles) represent each
composition, layer, and footage item, including any applied effects. Directional arrows represent the relationships
between components.
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