Adobe After Effects Basics
How to open a New Composition
You have a new composition open.
How to import a file.
Drag and drop your footage from the project panel either onto the time line or the video viewer panel.
For the footage to render you will need to play it once and a green line will appear above the footage. If it isn’t rendered it will say its not running in real time. For example the footage below isn’t rendered because it’s not in ‘realtime’.
Below is some rendered footage.