From the course: Video and Audio for Designers with Creative Cloud: Part 2
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Using the expression pick whip - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: Video and Audio for Designers with Creative Cloud: Part 2
Using the expression pick whip
- [Instructor] In the proceeding title for video and audio for designers with Creative Cloud, if you've watched that title, you'll know that you can parent objects to one another, and if you haven't I recommend that you do unless you feel comfortable with all of this so far. And if you do, awesome. Okay so we can parent things and just to show you here with the special effects layer and my chipping layer, if I chose to parent that to either the router or null one, I'll parent it to null one, it will now follow the animation properties of that particular layer. But that isn't going to get us very far at all. Okay, because it's just moving around like so above it, rather than being actually connected to it in some way. Just going to set that back to none. And what we're going to do is actually expand the chippings layer here. So our solid layer. And at this point, by the way, it's probably a good idea to hit the tilder or back tick key on your keyboard. When you're hovering over this…
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Looking at the storyboards1m 41s
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Opening the title sequence project2m 55s
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Adding a solid layer for effects3m 39s
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Adding a null object3m 39s
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Using the expression pick whip4m 30s
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Using the wiggle expression6m 2s
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Adding layer styles2m 37s
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Using 3D transforms4m 28s
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Masking a solid layer3m 46s
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Animating a mask with a null object3m 27s
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Adding a text layer3m 2s
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Browsing text animation presets4m 19s
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Challenge: Wrapping up the titles41s
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Solution: Wrapping up the titles2m 17s
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