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Cameras and lights

Cameras and lights - After Effects Tutorial

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Cameras and lights

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- [Instructor] In addition to having 3D layers enabled in a composition After Effects also gives us the ability to add cameras and lights to our 3D space. When added into a scene that has 3D layers, cameras can frame up the elements in the scene from a much different view, much like the real world. Likewise lights can eliminate some layers while obscuring others in darkness. Here in this movie, we'll take a look at how adding cameras and lights can bring a new level of depth to our compositions. So here in this composition, I've got all 3D layers and I'm going to create a brand new camera. Let's go down here in this empty space and right click and say new camera. Alternately, you can come up here to layer and go to new camera as well. Under the camera settings, we have a couple of different options here. The first one of which is the two node or one node camera, I'm going to leave it at two node. The two node…

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