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Animating effect properties - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects CS5 Essential Training
Animating effect properties
Earlier in this training series, I mentioned how you can animate every property in After Effects the same way you animate position, scale, opacity and all that stuff. And I just wanted to show you here how to animate effects, very similar to what we've already seen. I'm going to hold the Spacebar down to center this California text in our screen so this is kind of the focus here. And I'm going to select the Banner Behind California layer, and I'm going to go to the Effect Controls panel so that we can see stuff here that we have applied. We've applied Hue/Saturation effect here and also a Ramp effect. Now at first this may look very chaotic to you, but after a while, you'll start to recognize that pretty quickly. We can see on the far left we have these little arrows. So, I'm going to click this to collapse those properties. We're not changing anything here. We're just basically making it a little bit more organized. So, as you can see here, we have two different effects applied to…
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A showcase of effects2m 34s
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Creating a layer for effects3m 1s
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Applying effects4m 54s
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Animating effect properties4m 29s
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Using Glow5m 34s
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Creating patterns and textures6m 57s
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Creating a fireball7m 9s
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Using the Cycore effects5m 58s
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Adding blur5m 45s
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Creating a galaxy scene from scratch8m 38s
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Distorting objects with effects4m 7s
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Creating and using lens flares4m 21s
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Creating lightning bolts4m 3s
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Viewing random variations with Brainstorm4m 39s
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