From the course: Your First After Effects Project
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Converting to live text
From the course: Your First After Effects Project
Converting to live text
- [Instructor] Now I want to concentrate on the title over here, this one that says Oahu, and I want to change it to something else. So to do so, I'll need to double click on the composition, which is going to take me to the composition, which I've named title in the previous movie. So this is a composition, which is equal to a folder if you're comparing it to Photoshop. I also want to call your attention to this little square over here. This is what Photoshop calls clipping mask. Meaning that if I'm going to click on it to this method, we can see that the full texture was brought into After Effects and automatically After Effects is taking the transparent pixels the alpha channel from the layer underneath and this is created for us automatically. So this is the preserve transparencies which here inside After Effects. And if you want to see a checkerboard, similar to Photoshop, you can click over here where it says…
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