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Camera animation

Camera animation - After Effects Tutorial

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Camera animation

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- [Instructor] While many designers tend to use cameras to create more interesting graphics in general, I personally love using cameras to animate transitions. Let me show you what I mean. If we look in our project I have a title animation composition and a map composition and I want to build a transition going from one into the other. I want the title to look like it's sliding off to the left and the map I want it to look like it's sliding in from the right but I want the camera to kind of zoom far away from everything and then pop right back in to reframe the map at the end. So, let's start by adding both these comps to a new comp. So, I'll drag a lasso around both comps in the project panel, drag it down to the new comp button, make sure single composition is selected and then click okay. Let's select that comp in the project panel and press return so we can rename it camera transition. Double click on that comp to…

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