Using the mask tracker – Adjusting Color and Mood
The mask tracker transforms a mask so that it follows the motion of an object or objects in a movie. It’s similar to the face tracker you used in the …
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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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Adding animated text – Using the Roto Brush Tool
You’re nearly done. All you need to do is to add the animated title between the bird and the background. A new text layer named Reflections appears in the Timeline …
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Freezing your Roto Brush tool results – Using the Roto Brush Tool
You’ve put a fair amount of time and effort into creating the segmentation boundary across the entire clip. After Effects has cached the segmentation boundary so it can recall it …
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Getting started – Using the Roto Brush Tool
In this lesson, you’ll use the Roto Brush tool to isolate a bird and rock pool so you can replace the background. To finish up the project, you’ll add an …
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About rotoscoping – Using the Roto Brush Tool
Lesson overview In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following: This lesson will take about an hour to complete. If you haven’t already done so, download the project …
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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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Defining areas of overlap – Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools
If your animation requires part of an object or character to pass in front of another, use the Puppet Overlap Pin tool to define what should appear in front when …
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