From the course: After Effects CC 2021 Essential Training: Editors and Post
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Introducing z-depth - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects CC 2021 Essential Training: Editors and Post
Introducing z-depth
- [Instructor] After Effects has the ability to composite in 3D space by allowing you to optionally convert a 2D layer into a 3D layer. This introduces a few more parameters to each layer, including x, y, and z values on the position and rotation, for example. In this movie, we'll take our pre-compositions and combine them all to create a field of images. First things first though. Let's go ahead and do a little bit of housekeeping. I'm going to select all my assets here, and I'll just Command + click on my compositions to deselect them. And now I can just click and drag my jpgs into a folder, which I'll rename assets. So with that done, let's go ahead and make sure that we have this row of icons enabled. This is our switches. If you don't have these, go ahead and click our little hamburger icon guy, and go to Columns, Switches. And once we do that, we can click and drag down our 3D layer switch and turn all those…
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Import and work with pictures6m 49s
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Move animated images around the frame5m 45s
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Repeat an animation with multiple images4m 30s
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Introducing z-depth5m 54s
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Create a simple camera in a z-space montage6m 25s
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Parenting layers to the camera5m 38s
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Speed up or slow down video layers5m 52s
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Key video with Keylight6m 3s
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Mocha AE integration11m
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