From the course: After Effects CC 2021 Essential Training: Editors and Post
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Shape layer transitions - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects CC 2021 Essential Training: Editors and Post
Shape layer transitions
- Instructor] In the following movies, we'll expand on the core ideas we presented earlier in the course, and build out a few example techniques that you can use in your day to day workflow. Here in this composition, I've got two images. And I want to create a transition between this landscape image and the layer below it, this ruins image. And I'm going to use a custom transition to do that. And we'll use shape layers to build this out. So I'll come over to my transition composition. And let's go ahead and create a shape layer. So I'll switch over to my pen tool. And for now, let's go ahead and put this down to like 60 pixels wide for a stroke. And I'll disable the fill. And what I'm going to do is I'm just going to click and drag, kind of on the corner here of my frame. Just top and bottom, just follow along with it. Let's try to make that as straight as possible. Let's go ahead and undo that. There we go. And so what we…
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