Animatics in After Effects [Tutorial]

Animatics are preliminary visualisations of visual narratives like movies or animations.
This tutorial showcases how to build a simple animatic from start to finish while using the process to demonstrate a number of Adobe After Effects fundamentals.

The project files used in the video can be downloaded here:
dropbox.com/s/j45sz5mvgbba69l/AE%20Animatics%20…

Music (in animatic):
"The Theatrical Poster for Poltergeist III" by Chris Zabriskie
freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Losers/Start_Ove…

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Thankyou to @unknownstardust_ for providing the below timestamp:

00:00 - What an animatic is
00:40 - Putting frames into photoshop
02:33 - The filenaming explained
03:19 - Creating a composition in After Effects (general set up)
03:40 - Importing the psds & moving to timeline (double clicking is a shortcut)
04:50 - Lining up frames w/audio
05:20 - Retiming audio
05:45 - Adding more time to timeline
05:55 - Adjusting and panning timeline
06:07 - Changing/trimming work area
06:13 - Adjusting layer ends
06:19 - How to move & trim frames (alt+[ and alt+] trims beginning & end of frame to playhead. [ and ] will align frame with playhead)
06:51 - Adding fade (t pulls up opacity prop.)
07:08 - Adding solid layer
07:41 - Crossfade between 2 frames
08:00 - Remember to save!! (saving for first time (ctrl+s) & increment and save (ctrl+alt+shift+s))
08:33 - Going over animatic (space is shortcut for play)
09:10 - Adding detail, back to photoshop! (Using lasso tool to separate foreground from bg)
09:43 - Converting to layered comp in After Effects (Might be located in the dropdown “Create”)
10:40 - Fixing holes in bg, back in photoshop (lasso and content-aware fill)
11:34 - Crossfading slowly
12:05 - Final product