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Enabling multiple views to better orient yourself

Enabling multiple views to better orient yourself

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Enabling multiple views to better orient yourself

- [Instructor] When you're positioning layers in three-dimensional space, it's important to have perspective, so you can actually understand where these layers exist in that three-dimensional space. Now if we look at our project, I'll go ahead and double click on the enable multiple views composition, and here in the timeline, you'll notice I have multiple layers, five, to be exact, and four out of the five layers exist in three-dimensional space. Now I'm going to draw a lasso around all these layers by clicking in the empty area and dragging while holding my mouse down and I'll press P, not once, but twice, just so we can see the position parameter for all of these layers. And notice the blue background layer is in two-dimensional space, not 3D. All right, so as you can see, all these layers are distributed at different depths in the scene, but it's kind of hard to see here in the composition panel. Well, if you look on the lower right side of that panel, there is a view dropdown…

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