 Hello everybody, welcome back to another Adobe After Effects tutorial. It's been a while since I made an After Effects tutorial. In this one I'm going to show you how to set up a dummy project or how to set up a project, save it as a template. If you have like a nice file structure or folder structure like let's say I've got here and instead of having to create all the bins and everything and all the folders from scratch, let me show you how to do this. So here we go. So I've just got some some folders here and then I've got some sub folders and you'll see under here like I've got renders, final version, graphics, photoshop, illustrator, etc. How can I do this and save this as a template first off? So the first step that you want to do is you want to go to file after you've done this of course and this is how I like mine for example you can do yours anyway you want. File, go to save as, left click on save as. It's not any of those options but here not a lot of people know this but if you look at file format if you click on that drop down there's one called adobe after effects template project that I say that right after effects template project. Left click on that and now let's go to teaching and I'm going to call this I don't know default project. All right cool. Now you'll notice that this is an AET file. This is an effects template project file. Left click on that save it. Now if I was to go to my teaching and let's just find that you'll see here default project dot AET when I double click on that it will load up all that project with this structure and the whatever you want to place in it so if you had like a piece of footage that you wanted to load every time etc it's all there. Now the next step is we're going to go up here I'm going to go back to after effects part of me and let's go to preferences. If I go to after effects preferences and then I go down to let me find it. New project I believe that's the one. Left click new project. When I left click on new project watch this. This is how you can set it up so that it defaults loads with this every time. You'll see here that instead of under new project instead of having it just say you know nothing you can left click on new project loads template. So when I left click on that and it'll just take a second here I can now choose my project or my template part of me left click on that left click on open and now every time I open after effects it's going to load up with this file structure or whatever it is that I want it to have in it and that I've saved every single time they'll save you a ton of time it'll give all your projects a great head start that's all there is to it guys thanks for watching this tutorial a ton more stuff coming up stay tuned