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Animating effect properties

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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