Adding Footage With After Effects

Video Transcript

"Okay, welcome back to the basics of After Effects on Expert Village. I'm Ryan and now we're going to be talking about adding footage to your composition. So, right now I've got this Austin composition open and it's pretty basic right now. It just has a couple of foreground layers here and a text layer and a background layer. I'm going to add some flourish elements to my footage. Now there are two ways, at least two ways, to add this footage to your composition. One would be to drag it directly onto the composition window and let it go. So you just pull it out and what you can do is now this footage has been added to your composition, both in the composition window and in your time line here. What I'm going to do is scale it down to where I can see all of it and then I can move it around. That's not what I wanted. Make sure that when you move something around in the composition window that it's been selected here in the time line. So, if I wanted to move this over here and maybe scale it down a little more I can do that. Or, I could take another element and instead of dragging it to the composition window, I could simply take it and drag it down to the time line. Now, that same effect is going to happen basically. It's going to end up in the composition window and also in my time line. I want to scale that down again and maybe rotate it some. Then, let's move it off the screen a little bit. Anyways, you can arrange all your elements however you want but those are the two basic ways to add footage to your composition."