Making a new composition

Importing the slides

Creating an animated slide show

Now that you’ve completed this complex animation of the artist driving through a stylized cityscape, it’s time to add samples of his work to the easel. The point, after all, is to show off the artist’s work to potential new clients. However, this slide-show technique could easily be adapted to other uses, such as presenting family photos or making a business presentation.

The artist has provided a folder of sample artwork, but you’ll include only some of the images. To help you choose, use Adobe Bridge to preview them.

1 Choose File > Browse In Bridge to jump to Adobe Bridge.

2 In the Folders panel, navigate to the AECS5_CIB/Lessons/Lesson05/Assets folder on your hard disk.

3 Click the various “studer_” images, and study them in the Preview panel.

4 Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) to select your five favorite images, and then double-click to add them to the After Effects Project panel.

We chose studer_Comcast.jpg, studer_Map.jpg, studer_music.jpg, studer_ Puzzle.jpg, and studer_Real_Guys.jpg.

5 Leave Adobe Bridge open in the background.

You’ll put these images into their own composition, which will make it easier to turn them into a slide show, complete with transition effects between slides.

1 In After Effects, click the Project tab to view the Project panel.

2 Deselect all items in the Project panel. Then Shift-click to select the five Studer images, and drag them onto the Create A New Composition button () at the bottom of the panel.

3 In the New Composition From Selection dialog box, do the following:

􀁴 In the Create area, select Single Composition.

􀁴 In the Options area, set the Still Duration to 2:00.

􀁴 Select the Sequence Layers and Overlap options.

􀁴 Set the Duration to 0:10.

􀁴 Choose Cross Dissolve Front And Back Layers from the Transition menu.

􀁴 Click OK.

The transition option creates a sequence of still images that dissolve from one to the next. When you click OK, After Effects opens the new composition, named for the Studer image at the top of the list in the Project panel, in the Composition and Timeline panels. Before continuing, you’ll give the composition a more intuitive name.

4 Choose Composition > Composition Settings, and rename the composition Artwork. Then click OK.

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