From the course: After Effects CC 2021 Essential Training: Editors and Post
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Responsive design: Time for lower thirds - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects CC 2021 Essential Training: Editors and Post
Responsive design: Time for lower thirds
- [Instructor] Responsive Design-Time is a feature that allows you to speed up or slow down a composition, yet keep the original timing of certain sections intact. We can create what are called protected regions of the composition, so that they aren't effected by any time stretching. And that makes it great for lower third animations or graphics, where you might need to speed up or slow down the duration, depending on your shot. For example, I have this lower third and this composition is roughly five seconds and you can see it right on, drift a little bit and then right off. And so this animation here, I want to keep the intro and outro timings intact. So let's step into this timing comparison composition. And note that this composition itself is 10 seconds long. I want to time stretch this lower third but if I do that, you'll see an issue. So to illustrate let me just duplicate this lower third, and I'm going to…
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