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Masking foreground elements

Masking foreground elements - After Effects Tutorial

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Masking foreground elements

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- [Instructor] The last touch that I want to add for this composition, is to reveal the text on screen and also make it appear behind this foreground macadamia nut in the second part of this comp. So I'm going to pause the playback and first, I'm going to look for the point where the clips are changing, so in my case it is 1:09, I'm going to make sure that nothing is selected over here, and I'm going to hold down shift and press on the digit one, in order to create a composition marker. Then I'm going to go all the way to the start, select the title comp, I'm going to fold up the displacement map effect and I'm going to create this reveal using a transition. The transition categories over here at the end of the effects and presets list. I'm going to fold it down, scroll down a little bit, and here it is, the linear wipe. Let's double click in order to apply it to our comp, and I'm going to change the wipe angle to zero as well as introduce a lot of feathering because I want a smooth…

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