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Freezing areas of the frame in time

Freezing areas of the frame in time - After Effects Tutorial

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Freezing areas of the frame in time

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extend this out temporarily here. and you know, for all these reasons we talked about, that it illuminates the background helping you see what's going on and also give you a sense of what it looked like when there was a light that was lighting these trees from the ground. So it was a great reference, and also I ended up using it in the visual effects, and it also ended up being kind of like a cue for the actors. So like they saw that light go off, and then they reacted. And it happens so fast that it was actually seemed like a slow reaction but, So, here's the thing though, as this light was going on this was supposed to be like when the explosion was so they turned it on, and then it fades it. I mean that happens so fast. It's like less then one second from the time that the light comes on, until it fades out. And as I was playing with this, I couldn't make an explosion work in like a fraction of one second that would be…

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