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Using particle presets

Using particle presets

- [Voiceover] Now, if the thought of creating a particle system from scratch is at all overwhelming, fear not, because in the library, there are actually wonderful preset particle emitters. And so that's what we're going to use in this project. First thing, let's actually look at the project. You'll notice, in the layers panel, I have four groups. Now, the fades are just the fade in and out at the beginning and end of our project. Here, let me scrub in the timeline, and you can see I've just got a fade in, and then there's a fade out here, and it's just a black rectangle that's fading on and off. I have a talking head, that is talking, and basically, based on these markers, we're going to animate different graphic elements. But the most important section I want to deal with is right here, from five and a half seconds on. So let's move our playhead to around 5:15, and then press the space bar and listen to the narration. - Forces of nature will become paramount energy sources. -…

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