From the course: After Effects: Principles of Motion Graphics

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Duplicate and repeat

Duplicate and repeat - After Effects Tutorial

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Duplicate and repeat

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- [Instructor] Transitions are visual cues that help lead the viewer from one section of an animation to another, or from one scene to another. And one common technique I like to use for creating more complex-looking graphic transitions is one I call duplicate and repeat. Let me show you what I mean as we build a graphic transition out of this title animation. I'm going to start by grabbing the current time indicator and just scrubbing through, and you can see I've got my title that comes into the scene and is slowly growing into the scene. And right here at about 3:15, I want some graphic bars to kind of wipe across the screen and then I want another copy of graphic bars to wipe across the opposite direction and fill the screen with this nice, bright yellow color. Now these color palettes we created a little bit earlier, but if you don't have these palettes, it's fine. You can choose whatever colors you like. So to…

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