From the course: Tracking in After Effects
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Replacing a computer screen - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: Tracking in After Effects
Replacing a computer screen
- [Instructor] Now it's time to do what everyone loves so much, screen replacement. Yay! So in this movie, we'll replace this placeholder with the desktop animation movie that we have here, and composite it so we'll have a great match. All right, I'll pause the playback, I'll go to the beginning here. And then I'll select the solid that I created and press Cmd or Ctr-D to duplicate another copy. Then I'll select the desktop movie over here, right-click on it, and from there Reveal options, and ask AfterEffect to reveal this layer in the project. And this is going to open up the source files folder and select the layer in the project file. Now I'll select the second copy over here, hold down the Alt or Opt, drag and drop this to replace it with the original movie. Now currently, we can't see anything on screen, and this is because we have this reflection, which is blocking it. So let's switch off the visibility for this track layer, and we still can't see anything, and this is because…
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