From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 04 Layer Control
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Applying a filmic glow treatment - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 04 Layer Control
Applying a filmic glow treatment
As I mentioned, adjustment layers process the composite of all the layers underneath. This makes it really handy to unify a composition, not only as a stack of layers, but also as it changes over time with a consistent set of effects. One of my favorite uses of this trick is to do something called a Filmic Glow. If you've got the Exercise Files, open something that has several layers of footage on it, such as this comp 03a we are working with earlier. If you don't have the files, just create something that has several cuts, edits, cross-fades and another layers. Now you see I've got an edit between these different layers in this composition. What if I want to apply the same treatment to all of these layers across those edits? Well, this is another place where adjustment layers come in really handy. I'll go to Layer > New > Adjustment Layer. Nthing happens initially, because I've not applied any effects yet. You need to have an effect apply to an adjustment layer before you're going to…
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