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Creating a rack focus effect

Creating a rack focus effect - After Effects Tutorial

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Creating a rack focus effect

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- [Narrator] In this movie I'll show you how to create a rack focus effect, which means animating the focus of the camera while it is in motion. We can also see that we have some flares over here, at the upper left side of the frame, and this is something that can be easily created in the post stage. So I'm going to post the playback role back to the beginning, double-click on shoot-10 compositing, and then also double-click on the background layer over here. And this is the comp that were are going to review. So we are starting with the result from the previous movie. So this shot has all the tickets being replaced, so everything that we are seeing here is a brand new version of the ticket. And then, we have this shadow mask layer. This is just a black solid that casts a shadow over here at the lower end of this frame. And if I'm going to press you, you can see that we have two opacity key frames that is going to fade this shadow out. And the purpose of this shadow is just so it will…

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