Planning Your Workflow

Before you dive into building a project, it's a good idea to have a plan. Over the next series of exercises, you'll learn many time-saving techniques that can help you become more efficient in building complex layered projects.

The final version of the project you're creating here includes two rows of still photographs moving across the screen in opposite directions. One time-saving technique for creating this element is to use a single still object to represent all of the other photographs in the build. By duplicating one still and using it as a placeholder, you can copy, align, and group all of the still objects without using the actual media files. Then you can easily replace the media with the actual stills to complete your build.

Here's the plan to complete this project:

• Add one still object to the project, resize it, and move it into position.

• Copy the still three times and align the objects in a row at the top of the frame.

• Group the four stills together and copy the group to the bottom of the frame.

• Replace the media for the stills with the actual photographs.

• Clean up the alignment of the stills.

• Apply a Throw behavior to each row of stills to move them across the screen.

• Add titles.

Now that you know the plan, let's get started applying the first photograph to the project.