From the course: After Effects CC 2023 Essential Training

Using the exercise files - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects CC 2023 Essential Training

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Using the exercise files

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- [Instructor] If you have access to the exercise files, you can use them to not only follow along with me but also dissect and examine how a particular shot or animation was created. Often this can provide an extra level of insight in addition to what's presented on screen. These exercise files were created using After Effects 2023. If you're using a version earlier than this, you can either use the Creative Cloud Desktop application to upgrade your software in order to use the exercise files from this course or you can search the LinkedIn Learning Library to find the After Effects Essentials course that relates to your version. Lastly, when you download the exercise files to your hard drive, you'll open up a project and likely find that footage is missing as indicated by color bars. Files that are imported into an After Effects projects don't actually live in the file itself. Instead, After Effects simply points to where those assets live on your hard drive. The file path to these missing items then simply needs to be updated to use the files on your computer. Here's how to relink the files. Over in our project window, let's right click on the name column. Then come over here to columns and say File Path. If we scrub over through here, you can see that we have the file path where these files formerly lived and we're going to replace this with the files that are on your computer. Now, to replace that, let's double click on one of the footage items and point it to the exercise files footage folder. And here in this case, we're looking for the cityletters.psd. When we say import, After Effects will relink everything inside of that footage folder. We can say, okay, and there's our project file relinked to all the footage.

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