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Creating a pinch/zoom

Creating a pinch/zoom

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Creating a pinch/zoom

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- [Instructor] If you are a smartphone or tablet user, you're quite familiar with the spread pinch gesture to zoom in or zoom out of an element, and we're going to block that out in this exercise. So to get yourself started, open the pinch file found in your chapter download. And when it opens, you'll notice there are two cursor layers here, Cursor 1 and Cursor 2. And they are what will be used to demonstrate the effect. The first thing to do, is to select both cursor layers, and then press the P key to open their position properties. Now let's go to frame 10, so I'm going to hold down command or control + shift + right arrow, there I am frame 10, and I'm just going to add a position keyframe, and you notice with both layers selected and both properties opened, I've added keyframes to both of them. Now we're going to go out another 10 frames, so command + shift + right arrow, and what we're going to do is drag the cursors out to their respective corners. So we're just going to grab a…

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