From the course: Compositing a Cell Phone in After Effects
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Rework the opening shots - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: Compositing a Cell Phone in After Effects
Rework the opening shots
- [Voiceover] With our main shot completed, let's draw our attention to the opening two shots. Let's start by selecting both of the shots, and we'll press command-alt-B, and that will jump our work area to encompass both of these two shots. Now we can preview what we have. So the aim is to make the cut between these two shots not jar so much. You can see, visually, it's just not sitting right, at least not for mr anyway. So the first thing, also, we're going to do is just fix the way these shots have been re-timed. You can see that flickering there, and then we'll reposition and scale the shots to frame them better. We could do this in Premier, but I think it would just be faster to just stay in After Effects and do it here. So with both layers still selected, we'll just change the stretch property, and if you don't see the stretch property, you should do, but if you don't, you can just reveal it by right-clicking and choosing columns stretch. So we will click on one of the…
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