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Animating line graphs

Animating line graphs - After Effects Tutorial

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Animating line graphs

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- [Voiceover] Now in this video, we're going to focus specifically on how to animate these lines in this graph. But before we do that, it's really important to focus on how this graph was constructed. So to do that, I want to make sure to double-click the Zero-One Lines Stroke composition, then select Layer One and press Command-E on the Mac or Control-E on Windows to edit the original file. If we look in the Layers panel here in the lower right corner, click on the Selection target to make sure the chart is selected. If you don't see the Layers panel down here, you wanna make sure you're in the Essentials workspace, and you may need to reset your workspace so you can actually come down here and enable your layers. So with the chart layer selected with its target, we can over to the Toolbar here and just double-click on the Line Graph tool and that'll open up my Graph Type options. I want you to pay attention to the options down here at the bottom in the Options section. If we wanted…

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