A well-structured naming convention is part of a good work hygiene. It simplifies your thought process on many small operations (saving, searching, sending, etc.) and removes risks of accidentally deleting or overwriting files. I won’t have the pretension to call this the file naming convention you should follow, but rather just propose it as a personally tested convention I find efficient and easy to follow.
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After Effects has lots of shortcuts. Having them all in the same place makes it easier to find one in particular or to just learn those available.

This list has been generated from the shortcut file content which can be modified as explained in this article.

These are shortcuts for After Effects CC on OS X, but should be fairly similar on previous version or on windows.

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Sometimes, all you need is a constraint. The fear of the blank page can stop you really fast from starting something. Here are some challenges and contests you can do now to help you get creative without the hassle of thinking what to be creative about.

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