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Shape layer transitions

Shape layer transitions - After Effects Tutorial

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Shape layer transitions

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- [Lecturer] In the following movies, we'll expand on the core ideas we presented earlier in the course, and built out a few example techniques that you can use in your day-to-day workflow. Here in this composition, I've got two images and I want to create a transition between this landscape image and the layer below it, this ruins image. And I'm going to use a custom transition to do that and we'll use shape layer to build this out. So I'll come over to transition composition and let's go ahead and create a shape layer. So I'll switch over to my pen tool, and for now, let's go ahead and put this down to 60 pixels wide for a stoke, and I'll disable the fill. And what I'm going to do is I'm just going to click and drag on the corner here of my frame, just top and bottom, just follow along with it, just try to make that as straight as possible. Go ahead and undo that. Here we go. And so, what we want to do now is, I think we want to take this line and duplicate it across the screen. So,…

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