From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 04 Layer Control

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From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 04 Layer Control

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- Hi, I'm Chris Meyer of Crish design, and welcome to After Effects Apprentice: Layer Control. Now, in the Apprentice lessons on basic and advanced animation, we focused primarily on how to take a layer and move it around your composition stage. In essence, how to take a still image and bring it to life by keyframing its transform properties. However, a lot of your source footage already has animation built into it, included video footage, film frames and other image sequences which may already fill your entire composition stage. Therefore, in this lesson, we're going to focus on how to manipulate and better combine those types of sources. We're going to show you how to slide, edit, sequence and trim layers. We're going to show you how to apply a Blending Modes to them, which is a more effective way of mixing them together. We're going to show you how to apply Effects, Layer Styles, and Animation Presets to further treat them, and how to use Adjustment Layers to apply the same treatment to multiple layers all at once. Of course, at the end, we'll give you a little bit of a brain teaser just to make sure you've been learning, and along the way, we're going to be sharing more technical advice, as well as animation advice to help you more effectively combine layers in your own project. So let's start out by showing you how to go ahead and edit those layers.

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