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Exploring Collapse transformations

Exploring Collapse transformations - After Effects Tutorial

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Exploring Collapse transformations

- [Instructor] When we were working with Continuous Rasterization in the previous two movies, you might've noticed that the switch had a second name attached to it, Collapse Transformations, and that's what we will discuss in this movie. I'm going to go ahead and close all my comps, I'm still in Render Order dot AEP, and I'm going to open up the comp, Collapse Transformations, Collapse Starter. Here, we have a very simple composite of a watch face over a background. The watch face has been set to overlay mode, so it has an interesting interaction with the background. This is the composition in normal mode, and here's the composite in overlay mode. We also see that we have an effect applied, namely a drop shadow, and the transforms are pretty much at their defaults, including 100 percent scale. After Effects is following its normal order of applying drop shadow, calculating the transforms, then using the blending mode to composite this layer on top of those underneath. Let's play a…

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