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Creating a matte for the edges

Creating a matte for the edges - After Effects Tutorial

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Creating a matte for the edges

- [Instructor] All right folks, it's the final step. We're just going to add a couple little things of polish in this tutorial and we're going to call it done. Now the first thing we want to do is rotate this head and in the real project, what I did is I used some key frames and had it kind of going back and forth, but I would love to come out of this project with zero key frames whatsoever. So instead of using key frames for this head, we're going to use an expression, and I'm going to open up base form here and I'm going to go ahead and we want to adjust wide rotation. We don't need to zero this out because our expression's going to do that for us, but I'm going to alt or option click on the stopwatch here. That opens up this parameter for expression editing. Down at the bottom in the timeline panel I'm just going to type times, or just time, the word time, asterisk, 15, time times 15. So it's going to use the time…

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