From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 16 Creating a Medical Opening Title
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Rounded videos - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 16 Creating a Medical Opening Title
Rounded videos
When you are trying to create a unified design, it's really important to identify what are your major elements of your design and make sure you stay true to those elements throughout all of your work. In this case, we've created some nice rounded edges on our video frames. We've created some nice rounded circles on the background, but our video insets have squared off rectangular edges. To tie those in better with a design, it maybe better if those corners were indeed rounded, so I am going to go to one of my video pre-comps, choose my Jogging layer, change to the Rounded Rectangle tool to create rounded edges, and carefully line up my Mask tool with the upper left corner and drag out until I carefully enclosed this entire video. Now important thing with Mask shapes is that once you release your mouse, you're stuck with those points. You can edit those points but it's not as easy as just changing a roundness parameter for a shape layer. So before you release your mouse, use your up…
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