From the course: Video and Audio for Designers with Creative Cloud: Part 2

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Adding layer styles

Adding layer styles - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: Video and Audio for Designers with Creative Cloud: Part 2

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Adding layer styles

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- [Instructor] I'm going to import an Illustrator file, baseWood.ai, into this project, as it's got the main sign which will be the title of the project. So I'm going to bring that in, and in the dialog for how it's going to come in, I'm going to choose footage, and I'm going to choose a layer, so I just want the layer sign here. You can see there's two different layers in there. And the footage dimensions can be the layer size. That's just fine. If I hit OK, that gets imported. I can see it up here in the project window. I can then drag that into the comp area, like so. I'm just gonna bring that into the middle and up towards the top, like that. The layer here, quite wide on this particular file. Okay, so there is the sign that's been cut out for us by the router and other tools, of course, earlier on. And I'm just going to do my usual piece of housekeeping here which is to bring the layer's duration really within where it actually appears and is useful. There you go, so that's when…

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