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The audio icon, a little speaker, simply indicates whether your Water Freedom System Review layer has an audio component. When you place video you've taken it is very likely it will also have an audio component. Clicking beneath this icon turns your audio off and on. The solo icon is a little round circle. This will 'solo' your layer and that is turn off all other layers while this one plays. This sounds pretty basic but when you have several components and need to focus on some fine tuning for one, not having to turn off all the others, being able to 'punch one button' and have it 'solo', is a great little feature.
In this same group you will see a padlock icon. Choosing this 'locks' your layer. With your layer locked you can't make any changes to, and that is, make any changes to it accidentally. As you click and highlight and move things around, it is easy sometimes to choose the wrong element. Locking a layer adds a bit of safety and ease in your selection process.
Your layers 'stack' and that is, every time you add a new layer, it will by default be added above the previous one. What is inherent in After Effects 'stacking order' is visibility priority. Say you have created a composition by simply dragging a video to your composition icon. When you add new text, it will by default be placed above the video layer and you will see your new text. Drag your text layer below the video and you will see that it disappears. Layers and visibility is practically a topic by itself. You will want to set priorities for different instances. You will use partial shapes as mattes revealing part of your composition.
