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Marking the camera's timing

Marking the camera's timing - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 16 Creating a Medical Opening Title

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Marking the camera's timing

I have a Camera Move that I'm pleased with using Placeholder layers. I can now start replacing those placeholders with nice framed videos. But before I do so, I'm going to do a little bookkeeping. It's nice to know just exactly what I'm seeing in those other video layers. There's no point trying to find videos that are longer than I need during the course of this move. I might also want to time the actions on those videos to match when those videos are prominently on screen. So the next thing I am going to do is just place some more markers in this composition to remind myself when these videos appear and disappear. Now we know initially at 101, at this marked beat for the cymbal, none other video layers are visible. On an extended keyboard, I'm going to press Page Down until those videos first start to appear in my 16x9 display. If you don't have an extended keyboard, on the Mac you're going to hold Command and press the left and right arrow keys to go ahead and step forward and…

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