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The collapse transformations switch

The collapse transformations switch - After Effects Tutorial

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The collapse transformations switch

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- Now the same switch that you just learned, continuously rasterize, has another purpose which is collapse transformations. And this is important to realize what's happening inside the document, let me show you. What becomes important is how the elements are being interacted with. For example, as we take a look at these pieces here these are all currently being treated as vector data. Well, that's fine but let me disable that for a moment and nest these together. Now I'm going to scale this up significantly. You'll notice that its gone quite soft. But if I click the collapse transformation button, all of a sudden it's able to step inside and access some of that data. Now in this case, it's reading what's inside the container. Now, let's step inside for a moment and you'll see that the vector layer for text is always continuously rasterized. But, let's turn that on for the tag and the teddy bear. Now, you might be thinking, well why if continually rasterize is turned on isn't this…

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