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Arranging the frame

Arranging the frame - After Effects Tutorial

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Arranging the frame

To save you some time I went ahead and built this video edit in time to my music. Now I want to treat this entire composition as one element in my final RoboBody composition. Again, we'll be covering this a lot more in a future lesson, but all I need to do is find my video edit composition,. I am going to move it up to Comps so I keep track of it. I'm going to drag it down to the bottom of my layer stack, so it appears behind everybody. You'll notice that those composition markers that I placed have now come in as layer markers for this layer. That's great. And grab that video layer, position it behind the frame, type S to reveal the Scale, scale it down a little more tightly inside the frame. That's okay. Let's go ahead and look at it later in time, see how my framing works out. Now the skydiving footage does have little bit of vignetting going around on these corners. So I want to make sure I don't bring that in. So let's go ahead and cheat it a little bit in that direction. Let's…

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