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We are going to get hands-on and learn by undertaking a number of exercises which later in the next section we will use to build a project from scratch.
It’s important to state that After Effects is not a video editing programme by design. Now that’s not to say you cannot do video editing in After Effects. Any video you use in After Effects will typically be edited in a specialised video editing programme like Adobe Premier first and then brought into After Effects.
After Effects is based on compositing and works only with video footage but with still images, types and files brought in from other programmes like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and 3D programmes to create video presentations. What you will come to learn is that video editing in premiere as opposed to After Effects is a far more easier task. However, when we bring in video that has been exported from other programmes we still need to edit it in After Effects to a certain degree. In this video I’ll be showing you an example of how to edit video simply in After Effects.

Importing Video into After Effects
Editing Video Clips in the Timeline Panel