How to Import Media With Adobe After Effects

Adobe After Effects is a complicated animation and compositing program that cannot easily be learned in a few steps. The best way to learn the program is to start simply, learn the basics and build from there. After you create a composition and choose settings for it, you can add media to your project. After Effects can support many different types of audio, video and still image formats.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Adobe After Effects
• Footage to work with, such as video, audio or still images

1. Types of audio formats you can import include AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format), MP3, AVI and WAV (Video for Windows).

2. Types of video formats you can import include Animated GIFs, Filmstrips (FLM), Macromedia Flash, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (Windows), MPEG-4, QuickTime (MOV) and Video for Windows (AVI and WAV).

3. Types of still image formats you can import include files created in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe PDF, Adobe Photoshop (PSD), Bitmap (BMP, RLE), EPS, JPEG (JPG, JPE), Maya (IFF), Pict (PCT, PICT), Portable Network Graphics (PNG) and TIFF.

4. Go to the File menu at the top of your workspace. Then go to File, and Import File. Here you will need to search for your video or animation footage. Select it with your mouse and click "ok."