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Calming overactive effects - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 10 Time Games
Calming overactive effects
Next, I'd like to show you another way to induce that stop-motion look. I went ahead and closed all of my other compositions, just to clean up my display, and now I want you to open Comp 12a-Numbers*starter. We'll RAM Preview, and this little comp includes a series of numbers randomizing very quickly. Let's see what's going on here. I'll select that layer and press F3 to open up the Effect Controls panel. And if you don't have an extended keyboard, you can always go underneath Window to find many of these things like Effect Controls. I've used the Numbers effect, and rather than using it to enter a specific value such as Time and Date, I enabled the Random Values option to get this randomizing number. The problems with effects in After Effects that randomize is that they do it on every single frame of your composition, and if you're rendering for video and have enabled Field Rendering, you'll actually get two different randomizations per frame, one for every field. And quite often…
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