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Transparency in CS6

Transparency in CS6 - After Effects Tutorial

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Transparency in CS6

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I'm going to start by cleaning up my display by closing all of my compositions as well as unnecessary panel,s such as the Footage panel, and twirl open a couple of folders, bring the Comp panel forward again. In next couple of movies, I want to explore transparency in the ray-traced renderer, and in particular, I want you to understand the difference between transparency and opacity. I am going to open up this Comp, ray trace 3-Transparency*starter, and to start out with, we have a Light, a Camera, some 3D text, which has already been extruded and beveled. You'll see I've played around with the parameters a little bit here, where I've increased both the Diffuse and Specular Intensities up to 75%, and reduced the size of my specular hotspot a little bit by increasing Specular Shininess above its default. And I currently have a 2D Background layer, and in the next movie in particular, we'll see what is the difference between the background being 2D or 3D, but first let's play around…

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