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Hands-On Motion Graphics with Adobe After Effects CC
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Hands-On Motion Graphics with Adobe After Effects CC

by David Dodds
April 2019
Beginner to intermediate
318 pages
2h 34m
English
Packt Publishing
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Editing masks and using precomps

Let's begin our television lower third. Look at the final image below. This is what were creating. We are creating the 6:30 portion of this project right now. We are creating those designs for the lower third:

Final image
  1. Create a new 1920 x 1080 comp. Frame rate 29.97.
  2. Make it 9 seconds—0:00:09:00. Name it pattern.
  3. Layer | New | Solid change color to blue.
  4. Create a circle shape with the ellipse tool. Insert image of ellipse shape.
  5. Drag another ellipse. Insert second ellipse mask.
  6. Choose subtract mask. insert cutout ellipse. This will allow you to cut out a shade inside of your first mask.
  7. Choose the pan behind ...
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