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Creating the fill layer for a static camera

Creating the fill layer for a static camera - After Effects Tutorial

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Creating the fill layer for a static camera

- [Instructor] Now that we've got our initial selection, we're ready to move on to content aware fill. Up here under the fill target, play with the alpha expansion. I recommend keeping this at a reasonable value, somewhere around five, then we'll try out the fill method. Now, I'm want to make a smaller selection here, and press the N key to mark the end of the work area. This way, I could test out the different methods. Let's start here, and we'll generate this with the edge blend method, which is very fast, and I'll generate the fill layer. However, let's stop, and set that to just the work area. Analyzes and creates the new frame. Well, that worked pretty well, but it's relatively flat. And you see that it doesn't quite have the general area that we want, to pick up on this texture of the concrete. So I don't think that works. I'll delete that, and then from the pop-up menu, choose to delete the unused…

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