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Example: Sequence layers and photographs

Example: Sequence layers and photographs - After Effects Tutorial

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Example: Sequence layers and photographs

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So let's pull together some of the things you've learned in the last few movies and use them altogether. I am going to open up comp 03c-Sequence - trim*starter. Here I have a fun sequence of flowers, different tulips. Let's say that I want to create a nice animation where I fade from one flower to another and that they're all on the screen for the same amount of time. Each individual flower has the same duration. Maybe I am matching it to music or whatever. I'll set all my layers and remember to make layers start at a particular time, you may have to move the current time indicator there and press the left bracket down to have them all join there, or you just go ahead and press Option+Home, Alt+Home on Windows, to send them all at the same time. Now I've got them all starting at the same time. Maybe I decide the duration should be 5 seconds. Now you have to be careful about how time counts in After Effects. The first frame is time zero. So that I go to time 5:00, I actually have…

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