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Auto-trace video

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- [Eran] Hello and welcome to After Effects Weekly. My name is Eran Stern, and this time I want to show you one of my favorite techniques to create a quick rotoscoping effect using the auto trace command in After Effects. So this is what we are going to create, actually, just the prt of this skateboard jumper which is going between the ring, the yellow ring, and if you want to learn all about the other stuff that you are seeing here, stick to the end of this and I'll give you all the details, but for now, I'm just going to jump to the Skateboard Jumper conf, so this is what we are going to create here, and I'm going to remove all of these layers and basically start from scratch. So this is the original layer, courtesy of Adobe Stock, though what we need to do first is isolate the skateboard jumper to start the rotoscoping process, and by rotoscoping, I mean to create some of an animation, in this case, automatically…

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