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Keying dust based on its value ranges

Keying dust based on its value ranges - After Effects Tutorial

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Keying dust based on its value ranges

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- [Instructor] When it comes to keying smoke, fire, water or dust, your best bet is the extract effect. And this is what I'm going to use in this case as well. So I'm going to press space bar to show you the current state, and we can see that indeed we have a nice separation between those two lines of text, but we don't have any integration when it comes to the footage underneath. Now we can still see this message from the marker that came from premiere pro, it says stabilize didn't work well. But we already fixed it a few movies ago. So I'm going to hold down the command key this would be the control key on Windows, My cursor will become a scissors which will allow me to click and delete this marker. Just so it won't pop up. Now I'm going to select this clip and press command D in order to duplicate another copy. I'm going to take this and place it above those two layers of text. I'm also going to rename it extract after the effect that I'm going to use. Since I've finished working…

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