After Effects cs4 note

Customize the Workspace

Simply by choosing the Minimal workspace and adding the
Project panel, you’ve customized the workspace; switch to
another workspace and back and you’ll see that the Project
panel remains until you choose Reset “Minimal” in the
Workspace menu. Want to keep your new confi guration?
Save the Workspace under the same menu.
You can freely move any panel around the UI. To do so,
click and drag its tab around the screen. As you move one
panel over another, purple geometric shapes like those
in Figure 1.2 appear. These are the drop zones.

Order Reduces Effort

To my mind, the ideal workfl ow is an effortless one. Here’s
how to begin reducing steps you will take many, many
times in a normal After Effects workday.
Figure 1.4 charts the nondestructive workfl ow of After
Effects: from source fi les to comps made up of layers,
which can contain settings, all of which are represented in
a project fi le that never touches those source fi les.