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Improving the composite

Improving the composite - After Effects Tutorial

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Improving the composite

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I've corner-pinned a brand-new piece of video over the original MRI display inside this shot. I'll press F2 to deselect, turn off just when you display, and turn it back on again. As I look down here in the Timeline panel, I'll see that the corner-pin effect has been applied individually animating each corner of that display. This is what we tracked in the previous movie. In addition to that, After Effects will also animate the Position of what it believes to be the center of these four corners. The reason that it does this is so that you can enable Motion Blur for this particular shot and better integrate it into the final composite. After all, the original shot will have some motion blur as the camera moves, your new paste in graphic should have blur when things move as well. Our biggest problem however though is as I zoom in here, this brand-new graphic is not fitting quite right over the bloated out Bezel this old CRT display that bright blue we see peeping through is the old…

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