From the course: Motion Graphics Loops: 1 Photoshop Techniques
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Animating with video layers
From the course: Motion Graphics Loops: 1 Photoshop Techniques
Animating with video layers
- [Voiceover] We're gonna start coloring in our bouncy ball that just desperately longs to be a square, but instead of creating another dozen or so new layers for each and every frame of this animation, we'll use video layers, which will allow us to draw and animate multiple frames on a single layer. This will save us headaches caused by constantly scrolling up and down the timeline. First, let's create a video group from all our bouncy ball layers and take a look at how that video group works. I'll go ahead and twirl open the bouncy ball folder and I'm just going to adjust the timeline a little bit so I can see more of it. I'm gonna go ahead and click Ball 18, scroll down, hold down the Shift button, and select Ball 01. If I come over here to this little dropdown next to the little film icon, I can go ahead and select New Video Group from Clips. When I select that, it takes all of the bouncy ball layers and puts it into a single video group. I'm gonna rename Video Group 1, by double…
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