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Comparing 2D and 3D

Comparing 2D and 3D - After Effects Tutorial

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Comparing 2D and 3D

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- [Instructor] I'd like to start out by showing you some basic differences between 2D and 3D layers. If you have the exercise files that came with this course, open up the project file AEA_3dSpace.aep. If instead you're following along using our book After Effects Apprentice, open up the project file that came with Lesson 08, 3D Space. I'm going to go into the Comps folder, and double-click the comp 01-Basic3Dstarter, and here we have two simple text layers. By default, every new layer you create in After Effects is a 2D layer. I'm going to select these two layers, down on my Timeline panel, press P to reveal their position, then press Shift+S to reveal scale, and Shift+R to reveal rotation. And then I'm going to deselect the layers just to make sure I'm not editing two at the same time. I'm going to select Enter a New, and as you all know there's a couple of different ways of editing the position of a layer. You can either scrub its values directly in the Timeline panel. I'll undo…

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