From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 16 Creating a Medical Opening Title
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Adding vital signs to our world - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 16 Creating a Medical Opening Title
Adding vital signs to our world
Now that we have created a nice prototype for our Vital Signs display, let's place one of them in our 3D world and see how it works out. I'm going to select my Shape layer, I think I'm going to temporarily turn off Trim Paths, so I get to see the entire trace for the entire duration of the composition, copy, go to my Final Comp and Paste. Then I might rearrange my layers here to place it at the very top of my stack. Now I have my Vital Signs trace going throughout my comp, toggle back to switches. It's 2D layer initially. I'll make it a 3D layer. Again, it jumps to the center of the composition world which is over here where our Hero video is, I'm going to push it back in Z, and you'll see it start to appear here now. It appeared roughly around where our text was and look at it at various parts in our world. It needs to be centered up so I can see it during the camera move. So I am going to center it roughly in our world. It looks like I might need to scale it up too. So I'm going to…
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