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hello guys soft Tony here and in today's
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tutorial we will be creating a modern
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breaking news intro step by step in
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After Effects without using any third
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party plugins this short intro will add
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an extra quality to your videos so don't
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miss out on what's coming up and before
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we begin please subscribe to my channel
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hit the like button and turn on the
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notification Bell so you don't miss any
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of my upcoming video tutorials so let's
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dive into the after effects and get
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started with the creation
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[Music]
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all right we're here in After Effects
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and first like always let's create a new
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composition hit on this little icon this
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is going to be of course final
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composition you can of course hit
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control or command plus n and this is
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going to be 3840 by 21 60 30 frames per
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seconds and duration 10 seconds long now
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hit okay and let's create another
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composition hit again on this little
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icon this is going to be just earth
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composition also 3840 by 2160 and then
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hit okay as you can see I already have
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this Earth texture here in the project
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window and just drag and drop here
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inside this earth composition I will
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leave the link of this art texture Down
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Below in the video tutorial description
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just drag and drop okay and now let's go
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and make further adjustments now let's
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go right click to create solid layer
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this is going to be start burst okay
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okay also 3840 by 2160 and then hit okay
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go here in the fact and preset and if
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you can't find this option just go
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window and you will find effects and
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presets here of course let's type here
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Starburst effect drag and drop onto the
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solid layer and here let's also make
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adjustments for this scatter let's type
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here
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175 for the speed type
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0.02 okay for the phase let's go to
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around
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130 and for the grid space leave it to
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four and for the size let's go somewhere
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around 40 and as you can see we have
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this tiny start burst particles here
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inside this earth composition Also let's
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import fill effect type here fill drag
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and drop onto the solid layer and let's
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change color to this pure white color
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now hit okay I will close this effects
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control for now and now it's time to
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import this earth composition here in
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the final composition like so and now as
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you can see we have this texture here
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inside our final composition for the
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next step let's import the next effect
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this is going to be CC sphere okay drag
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and drop onto the earth composition and
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let's make further adjustments for the
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radius instead of 200 let's type 600 for
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the render options instead of full
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change here to inside also what we can
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do is to play around with the shading
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option for the ambient instead of 10
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let's type here maybe 100 and now let's
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also animate rotation open up this
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rotation option go to zero frames set up
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the first key frame for y parameter and
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then go all the way to around 10 seconds
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and let's type here two and now as you
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can see we have cool animation of our
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Earth texture what we can do next is to
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change name from Earth to Earth inside
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okay now let's duplicate this Earth
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inside once hit contrl plus d or go edit
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and then duplicate this is going to be
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Earth
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outside like so okay hit F3 to show
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effect control for the render option
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change from inside to outside and as you
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can see our Earth is looking cool here
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in the final composition Also let's add
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here another effect for the Earth inside
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go here in the effects and preset and
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find Goan blur effect drag and drop and
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let's change blur init to around 10% and
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this is looking cool also what we can do
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is to duplicate this Earth outside once
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again hit control+ D this is going to be
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just Earth okay hit F3 again to show
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effects control change render option
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from outside to full and also for the
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radius instead of 600 type here 800 okay
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and let's go and find here simple choker
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effect drag and drop and for the choke
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mat instead of this uh zero let's type
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here
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1.7 and now this is looking cool I will
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hit control plusk to change this
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background color maybe to black color
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for better viewing hit okay and also so
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let's duplicate this earth once again
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hit control + D and for the radius here
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instead of 800 let's go and type here
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1,000 and now as you can see we have
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this tiny white spots here in the final
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composition and this is looking awesome
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when we hit zero okay now for the next
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step let's import adjustment layer go
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right click to create new adjustment
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layer this is going to be Hue and
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saturation okay go here in the fact and
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pres find Hue and saturation drag and
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drop onto the adjustment layer and here
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let's check this colorize option for the
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colorize Hue let's go to around 140
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maybe for the saturation type here 100
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and for the lightness maybe to go around
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minus 50 okay now we have this greenish
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color and here let's create another
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adjustment layer and this is going to be
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glow okay go here in effects and pres it
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find glow effect okay drag and drop onto
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the adjustment layer and as you can see
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our Earth is looking cool and glowy here
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in the final composition for the glow
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threshold leave it to 60% for the glow
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radius instead of this 10 let's type
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here maybe
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150 and now as you can see this is
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looking pretty much awesome here in the
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final composition okay now it's time to
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select everything and to precompose
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again hit control+ a or select
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everything go right click precompose
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this is going to be Earth plus l
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elements make sure to move all
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attributes into the new composition and
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then hit okay now what we can do is to
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import also Triton effect here go in the
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facts and preset find Tron effect drag
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and drop onto the Earth plus elements
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and basically you can change midtones to
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whatever you want I will go maybe find
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this reddish color of course you can
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play around with your colors hit okay
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now let's duplicate this new composition
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once hit control+ D and once again and
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for this low composition hit S4 scaling
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and I will type here
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325 and as you can see we have this cool
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animation of our Earth here in the
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finals also hit t for opacity or go here
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on this little icon find the opacity and
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let's type here maybe 15 or
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20% and now this is looking awesome and
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cool here in the finals hit zero and
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this is looking cool now let's create
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text composition position here in the
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finals hit on this little icon again
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this is going to be for the width 3840
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and for the height let's type here maybe
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500 and then hit okay now hit on this
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little icon or control+ t on your
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keyboard and I will just type random
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text maybe breaking news as you can see
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I'm using this gallion bold font for the
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font size
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250 let's align it here to the center if
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you can find align option just go window
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and you will find align op option here
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okay now it's time to animate this text
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open up this Little Triangle go on
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animate option find here position okay
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and for the position let's go to around
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maybe
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-500 okay and now let's open this range
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selector 1 let's set up the first key
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frame for the start parameter zero also
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for the offset let's create first key
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frame and for the offset let's type here
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minus 100 here at zero frames and then
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go to around 2 seconds or so and for the
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start let's type here 100 and for the
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offset let's also type 100 and as you
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can see we have this type of Animation
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now let's open this Advanced option and
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instead of this square shape change here
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to ramp up for the E high and e low type
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66 and as you can see we have this cool
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animation of our breaking new text hit
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zero and this is looking awesome if you
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want to randomize order just hit here on
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option it's zero and now we have this
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type of Animation now go here and set
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the play head to around maybe 1 and A2
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seconds and go to animate option again
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find tracking and let's go for the
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tracking amount set up the first key
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frame here maybe to one and A2 second
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somewhere around here then go to around
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maybe here and let's type maybe 40 okay
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not 400 just 40 okay select both of the
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key frames go right click key frame
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assistance easy is or hit F9 on your
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keyboard now open up this graph editor
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and draw a curve like
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this okay and now when we hit zero we
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have this movement of our text and
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tracking animation and this is looking
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awesome now let's just close this comp
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one composition let's rename this one to
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text here in the project window and just
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drag and drop this text composition here
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inside our final composition hit zero
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for the preview and our breaking news
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intro is looking pretty much cool and
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really really awesome now let's create
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another text composition hit on this
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little icon again this is going to be
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text O2 for the width let's go to around
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1,200 and for the height let's go to
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around 800 hit okay and for the text
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size instead of 250 let's go and type 40
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also if you have turned on this fox bolt
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option just turn it off okay hit
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control+ t or go here on this little
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icon again I will turn on this titles
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and action save and draw rectangle like
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this I already have my text copied I
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will just hit control+ V and as you can
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see this is looking awesome also what
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you can do here in the paragraph make
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sure that your alignment is centered if
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you can't find paragraph option just go
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window and you will find paragraph here
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okay now set up the play head to around
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zero frames go in effect and pres it and
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let's type type wrer effect dragon drop
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onto the text and here let's also hit W
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to show all of the key frames and let's
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reposition this second one to around
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maybe 6 or 7 Seconds like so and now
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when we hit zero our text is looking
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cool okay for the next step let's import
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this text O2 here inside the final
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composition okay hit s for scaling I
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will go to around 50% now hit V and just
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reposition this text here in the final
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comp position also for the opacity hit T
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I will go to around 60% also hit
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control+ D to reposition here again hit
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control+ D once again and go somewhere
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around here I'm just showing you the way
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you can of course play around with all
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of those options for the opacity and for
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the scaling and everything else and now
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when we hit zero we have this cool
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looking breaking text one and cool
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looking text two what you can also is to
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reposition texts like so first text
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second and third and in our finals this
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animation is looking cool and is looking
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awesome also let's go and create
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adjustment layer go right click to
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create new adjustment layer let's rename
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this one to Glow again go in facts and
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pres it find glow effect drag and drop
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onto the adjustment layer and here
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basically you can also play around again
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with the options low radius threshold in
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intensity maybe intensity
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0.2 okay play around until you're
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satisfied with your own final results
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also for the glow hit t for the opacity
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maybe to lower down to around 60% or 70
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or so play around okay close this
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effects control for now okay now let's
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create another composition here this is
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going to be numbers and for the width
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let's type here
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3840 by 2160 this is going to be also 4K
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composition hit okay and let's create
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solid layer go right click to create new
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solid layer rename this one to numbers
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hit okay go in facts and pres it and
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find numbers effect drag and drop onto
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the solid layer hit here also okay and
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basically you can play around here with
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the colors decimals and everything else
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for the color let's change of course to
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white color if you want to see more
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decimal colors just play around here
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with those options and let's animate
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this value and offset option set up the
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play head to zero frames and let's set
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up the first key frame and then go all
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the way to around 6 seconds and let's
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type here just random number okay also
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you can play around here with the size
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but I will leave this one to play around
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by yourself okay hit zero on your
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keyboard and now as you can see we have
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those cool number animation now let's
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duplicate those numbers for a few times
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hit control plus d now V and reposition
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here in the scene and let's play around
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with the size hit control+ D once again
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reposition the finals once
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again once again and until you're
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satisfied with your final results
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okay and now let's close this effects
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control for now again also numbers and
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grab the numbers composition here from
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the project window and import it here in
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the finals and as you can see we have
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also cool looking number
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here in the finals you can play around
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further hit T4 opacity something like
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this in every moment later on you can go
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here and just reposition number Solid
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layers okay until you're satisfied with
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your own final
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results cool something like this go here
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again in the finals and as you can see
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our numbers are applied again here for
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the opacity maybe go to around 25 or 30
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% hit zero and our animation is looking
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pretty much cool and really really
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awesome one thing that we have also
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forgotten to do is to open up this Earth
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plus elements composition and for this
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Earth 1 and two hit t for the opacity
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and let's go from 100 to around 15% and
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when we go here in the finals for the
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full resolution you will also see this
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cool animation and our breaking news
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text is looking perfect okay also you
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can go hit T again instead of maybe 20%
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you can play around maybe 10 or
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15% and when you hit zero our breaking
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news text is looking cool and is looking
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really really creative all right guys
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that was everything for today's tutorial
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like always I hope you learned something
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new I have shown you this cool technique
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layer so you can create curves light
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tutorials and until next time stay
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bye-bye
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