From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 02 Basic Animation
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Adding a solid - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 02 Basic Animation
Adding a solid
- [Instructor] Now I'd like to add a colored bar across the top of the comp. A snow border is wearing a nice red jacket, so something like this color might work. And for the height I often use the info palette for measuring. Remember that After Effects considers zero to be the top of the comp, so as I move my cursor down I could estimate that around 60 pixels should be a good height. I'll now select Layer, New, Solid. When the solid settings open I'll first give it a good name. Let's call this solid bar. The width, height and color will default until the last value are used. And by the way you can click the Make Comp Size button if you want to create a solid the same width and height as your comp. The width of 640 is the full width of the comp. I figured out that my height should be about 60 pixels. For the color I can click on the eye dropper and then pick a color from the snowboarder's jacket. I'll click okay and a solid bar will be created in the middle of the comp. The solid bar…
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