Adding a new background – Adjusting Color and Mood
With the mask tracked, you’re ready to add drapery to the scene. Color-correcting using Auto Contrast Although the background is now less bland, the contrast of the drapes doesn’t quite …
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Detecting scenes in a composition – Adjusting Color and Mood
The video includes three scenes, which you need to edit independently. You’ll rearrange the order of the scenes, change the length of each, apply different color corrections, replace the background …
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Creating the composition – Adjusting Color and Mood
You’ll create a new composition based on the Collectibles movie file. After Effects creates a composition named Collectibles and opens it in the Composition and Timeline panels. Previewing your project …
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Extra credit – Using the Roto Brush Tool
Tracking faces The face-tracking feature in After Effects makes it easier to track a face or specific facial features, such as lips or eyes. Previously, tracking a face required roto …
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Changing the background – Using the Roto Brush Tool
There are many reasons to isolate a foreground image from a background. You may want to replace the background entirely, moving the subject to a different setting. Or you could …
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Adjusting the Roto Brush & Refine Edge effect – Using the Roto Brush Tool
When you use the Roto Brush tool, After Effects applies the Roto Brush & Refine Edge effect to the layer. You can modify the effect using settings in the Effect …
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Refining the boundary across the span – Using the Roto Brush Tool
You used the Roto Brush tool to create a base frame, which includes a segmentation boundary that divides the foreground from the background. The Roto Brush span appears below the …
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Extra credit – Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools
Act it out with Adobe Character Animator If you identify strongly with your characters, you might want to use Adobe Character Animator instead of creating cumbersome keyframes. It’s especially useful …
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Using the Puppet tools to animate video – Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools
You’ve used the Puppet tools to animate an image on a layer, but you can also use them to warp or create other special effects on video layers. You’ll use …
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Animating pin positions – Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools
The pins are in place. Now you can change them to animate the crab. The Starch pins keep specific areas (in this case, the carapace) from moving too much. When …
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