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Applying presets

Applying presets - After Effects Tutorial

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Applying presets

Adobe After Effects ships with hundreds of animation presets, many of which take a range of the hundreds of effects that After Effects shapes with. Let's explore some of those presets. First off, make sure you can view them in the Effects and Presets panel by clicking the Option menu and making sure that Show Animation Presets is indeed enabled. Its folder will sort to the top of this list. You can just start twirling this open and look through the names of presets to see what they might be. For example, Image - Creative. Say that I want treat this selected piece of footage. I'll twirl this open and look at all these different presets I've got here. Now some of these names may make enough sense that you can just apply them directly, just like you can drag an affect directly on to any piece of footage or double-click it to apply it. Same with Presets. Just drag your preset under piece of footage and bang, it's automatically applied. In this case, blue wash did indeed give more of a…

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