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Working with orthographic views

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Working with orthographic views

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- So it's very easy to get lost in 3D space, and that's because it's infinite. In this movie, we'll look at viewing a composition from different perspectives by staring down different accesses with the help of our built-in camera tools. So I'm here in my Chapter 1_6 Composition and we already have a camera here on the scene. So if I double click this camera, just know that it's a 50 millimeter camera. Press OK to close that. You can see that the majority of our layers minus the background right now is 3D. And if we take a closer look, if you select any of these layers, you press P for position, you'll see that they have various Z positions, so they're all spread out in Z space. This is one way that we can see our scene, but in order to see the depth between these layers, it's going to be really handy for us to look at various orthographic views and how our scene looks in those views. To access these multiple views, what we want to do is underneath the after effects composition where…

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