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Creating transitions with streaks

Creating transitions with streaks

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Creating transitions with streaks

- [Instructor] Now for this video, I'm going to show you how we can animate a transition that makes it look like the streaks are actually wiping on the word streaks. So let's start by looking at the animation as it exists currently. If I click on the current time indicator and scrub, you'll notice I have these cool streaks flyin' in from one side and shooting off on the other. And there's no transition revealing that word. So what I want to do is actually create an exact duplicate of these particles and I want to be able to kind of control when these particles appear. So I'm going to select both layers one and two by clicking on one, holding down shift, and clicking on the other. Then I'll press control D, or command D if you're on the Mac, to duplicate those layers. Then I'm going to click and drag on the lower particles layer and drag it up. Now I'm going to rename some layers. So I'll click down here to deselect all the layers, and I'll click once on layer one, and I'll press…

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