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Master controls

Master controls - After Effects Tutorial

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Master controls

- [Instructor] In the last movie, we showed you how to use Effect, Expression Controls to create a user interface for an expression applied to a layer. In this movie, we're going to show you how to use expression controls to create one set of master controls that affect multiple layers. To do that, let's go ahead and close this up, Close All, just to clean up our interface. Go to the Project panel, and this time open up 07 Master Controls starter. Here we have a bunch of text and a bar, created using shape layers, that are all boring white, and we know the client's going to want these to be a different color. And we know the client has a way of changing their mind. So instead of changing the color for every one of these layers every time the client does change his or her mind, instead let's create one set of controls they can apply to all of these layers. Now, I could choose one of these layers to be the layer that has these master controls, or I can create a brand new layer that has…

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