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Creating and saving presets

Creating and saving presets - After Effects Tutorial

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Creating and saving presets

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- [Instructor] One of the best things about Animation Presets in After Effects is that you can use them to save your own favorite configuration to the effects and apply those configurations to other layers or other pieces of footage. If you have the exercise files in this project, switch to the Project panel and open up Comp 08 Save Preset starter. If you don't have the exercise files, just create a comp with any piece of footage, because we're just going to be applying some effects. My goal here is to create an interesting transition effect to dissolve out of this footage in an interesting way and reveal something else. After playing around, I've decided to use a Radial Blur. So, I'm going to type in Radial Blur. Since I don't have any footage selected in this comp, double clicking the effect does not do anything. After Effects does not know what to apply it to, but I can just drag it on to a piece of footage in the Comp panel and now it will be applied. The Effect Control panel will…

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