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Working with spot lights

Working with spot lights - After Effects Tutorial

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Working with spot lights

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- So that's a Point Light, which is the easiest light. Let's go ahead and try the other common light type, Spot. As soon as I do so, you'll see some more parameters open up here in the Timeline panel. I'm going to hold Shift + R to hide the rotation parameters for our light, because I far prefer controlling lights by moving their position, and in the case of Spot Lights, the point of interest. The Spot Lights, in addition to the back of the light, you now also have a point that says where is that light being aimed? I love this degree of control. For example, I can place that point of interest right on my layer. I'll select my layer, press P to see his position. I see that its Z position is zero. I tend to put my point of interest at the same Z position to make sure that point of interest is right on that light. Then I'll drag a point of interest to the area I want to be illuminated. Say, the top of this X in 12. Now, when I move the back of the light around, I know that that area is…

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