A viewer is a panel that can contain multiple compositions, layers or footage items with multiple views of such items. The Composition panel is what's called a viewer. But for now, let's jump over to the Composition panel. Because that will ensure if I sort these by name that it remains on top. I like to have them sorted by name and here's a pro tip, I like to put the really important things, or the main things in a folder with underscore as the first character. If you click on the columns you can sort your folders or your media items by different attributes. If you make some room here in the project panel you will see there are some columns. You see right there, I dragged right into my timeline panel and it was added to my project up here. Or you can drag them into your Composition panel, or the Timeline panel, and they will be imported into your project. And you can open up in Explore window, or Finder window in the Mac, and just drug your assets right into the Project panel here. You can right-click here, choose Import File. You can also just double-click in a blank space here in the Project panel. Just select the folder, then go to Import, I just used the keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+I, select your item, choose Import, and now, that was put right in this footage folder and that can be really handy. If you want your assets to be imported into a particular folder, that's no problem at all. And you can see, here is my file right here. But for right now, you might just select a media file and then choose import. For example, if you open up a bunch of photos, you'll have some different options on how that can be imported. Now, you'll notice down here, we have some options, depending on the type of file or how many assets you are importing. This will bring up the Import file window and you can select your files. If you count that there was a keyboard shortcut which is Ctrl+I, make sense? Similar to some other applications. To start, let's come up here to File > Import > Import File. And you can do this in a number of ways, I wanna go through it really quickly. Now, let's talk about how to import your footage into a project. But if you have them organized in a footage folder, you're gonna be much better off. Especially if you're working with clips from a camera that are named just a jumble of numbers and letters. But once you get a ton of assets in your project, it can be hard to know what every clip is named. Now there is a search right up here, which is super handy. Because if you have a project and you just have a list of assets, it can be very, very difficult to find the thing that you're looking for. And the general idea here is to put stuff in folders that makes sense to you. But you're still gonna see the same folder structure, so you should be able to follow along. Your project is not going to have these assets, because you're going to have to download these from Envato Elements. You can see in the Audio folder, I have a wav file. And in these folders, I have some various assets. If you are following along and you have this Lesson_Start.aep file open, you're gonna see pretty much the same folder structure that I have here. It's where you're going to make compositions, and keep everything organized. This is where you're going to import footage, and hopefully, organize your footage. This is kind of your home base for all your projects. So I wanna give you a quick run down of what the Project panel, the Composition panel and the Timeline panel are used for. In this lesson you're gonna look at three panels that you are going to be accessing all of the time in more detail.
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