From the course: Your First After Effects Project
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Matching colors
- [Instructor] Okay, now let's use the video that we brought earlier and replace the illustration with something that moved as well as match the colors to what we are seeing in the design over here. So I'll drill down the Source Files folder so I can see this clip and then I'm going to drag and drop it over here. Now, notice that I can tell after After Effects where I want to place this clip. So if it's going to be over here between layer six and seven, it means that everything above it will show through, in this case, thanks to the alpha channel, and then in the background, we can actually see the clip. Now, there are a couple of ways to work. You can also drag the clip directly to the composition panel and let go. This is going to place it above everything else and you can also set it to more or less the position that you want it to be. I'm going to press back space or Delete to remove this click. You can also…
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