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Animating opacity

Animating opacity

In this movie, we are going to explore Opacity a little bit. Let's start by zooming in to this text, Explore California. We are going to make both the text Explore and California fade in. Now the easiest way to do this is by using the wheel on your mouse, if you have a wheel mouse, and just roll it to zoom in. You don't need to make sure that your mouse is over the composition panel, but you can use just use that wheel and zoom in. Otherwise, you can use the keyboard shortcut Command+Plus on the Mac, Ctrl+Plus on the PC. Alternatively, you could use these navigational tools, such as the Hand tool, which will allow you kind of move things around, or the Zoom tool, which also will allow you to click and zoom in. But those, honestly, are kind of pain to have to like go all the way up to the toolbar and use those. That's kind of annoying, just much easier to use the keyboard shortcut. Fo example, like I am going to hold down the spacebar and while I'm holding it down, I get the hand tool,…

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