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Essential Graphics panel - After Effects Tutorial

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Essential Graphics panel

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- The Essential Graphics Panel inside of After Effects is a great workflow enhancement. It allows you to access parameters that may be spread out inside several different compositions by gathering them into one easy to reach panel. Additionally, if you work with editors, the Essential Graphics Panel can serve as a powerful way to hand off a composition for use as a template inside of Premiere Pro. Here in this movie, we'll see how we can use the panel to enhance our workflow. I've got a master composition here called Main clusters, and you can see it's comprised of a few pre-comps with this triangle animation. If we dive into the shape, cluster pre-comp, you can see that this is the bulk of the animation here and inside the Shape Move pre-comp, I've got the triangle itself. Now, as is typical with an aftereffects workflow, if we wanted to change anything inside of our pre-comps, we do so without any real context for how it…

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