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Reflecting the environment

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Reflecting the environment

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- [Instructor] Another way to make these titles look as if they are part of this scene, is to reflect the natural environment of this clip on their surfaces. Now, in an ideal world, we'll visit this site, armed with a 360-degrees camera, and take a VR panorama, also known as an equierectangular image, and then we can use it as a reflection source. But since this is not going to happen any time soon, I'm going to show you another walk-around that should suffice in most cases. So to get the environment details that we need, we are going to duplicate the original clip by selecting it here in the timeline and pressing Command or Control + D, then I'm going to go to the Effect Controls and I'm going to delete the 3D Camera Tracker Effect from this copy because this can raise the weight of the After Effects project due to the large amount of data that was collected using this effect. So, just in order to make this project more efficient, you should also delete this effect. Now, I only need…

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