From the course: Trapcode Form: Making UI Elements

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Making Form do the work

Making Form do the work - After Effects Tutorial

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Making Form do the work

In this brief tutorial, I just want to show you how amazing Form is, and how you can get it to do a lot of work for you. I'm going to go ahead and go to the UI layer, layer 23, and go ahead and shy it, so we can hide it there. And I'm going to go ahead and select the data recognition layer and I press the letter U on the keyboard, to reveal all its key frames. Now this data recognition is right here, and if we scrub this in time, you can see that it's actually moving and doing a whole bunch of stuff. These bars are getting smaller and bigger and moving around, and it looks like this cool voice activated thing, but there are no key frames. I press U and nothing happens. Same thing with this oscilloscope with these lines that are moving around and doing their whole deal. And I press U for the key frames, and still nothing. All this motion, this elegant motion, no key frames whatsoever. Now, I can go, actually, and…

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