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COOL TEXT SHADOWS in After Effects Tutorial
Feb 27, 2023
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[Music]
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thank you
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hello guys of Tony here welcome to
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another video tutorial in today's lesson
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we're going to create this awesome Long
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Shadows really cool looking and for that
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I want to thank you for watching this
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video uh if you haven't subscribed to my
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channel click that subscribe button and
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turn on the Bell icon so you can always
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get notified whenever I post a new clip
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uh so let's see what we can do today
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thank you
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all right here we are in After Effects
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2021 and first of all like always we're
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going to create a new composition go
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here on this little icon to create a new
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composition
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shortcut for creating a new composition
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is Control Plus n hit here and then we
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will rename it
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Shadow okay with 9020 height 1080 a full
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HD composition frame rate 30 frames per
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seconds and duration it's up to you but
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I will choose around 6 seconds then hit
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OK and first thing that we're going to
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create is our solid layer right click
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here in our timeline then go new to
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create a new solid
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to create a new solid layer okay and we
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will call it
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background
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also 90 20 by 1080 and then hit OK
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after this we will import our first
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effect go here in assets and preset if
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you can't find this effects in preset go
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here and window and turn this effects
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and preset panel on all right and then
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type here
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uh for
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Four Color gradient all right just drag
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and drop this effect here in our
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timeline and we will here readjust a few
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settings grab this handle move it around
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here uh this one maybe around here this
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third
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third one around here and fourth one
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around here for this first color we will
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do maybe that purple one something like
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this hit OK for this color too we will
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grab orange one maybe
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this one also you can use eyedropper to
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readjust your next color something like
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this all right
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and that's it for now all right next
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thing that we're going to create is our
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grid so hit here right click then new
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and then go solid we will name it grid
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something like this 9020 by 1080 and
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effect that we're going to use is CC
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Ball action all right in this effect we
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will do grid spacing maybe around
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20 something like this for ball size
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maybe around
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maybe around 10 something like this also
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grid spacing we will do maybe also
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around 10 here something like this
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really cool also we will import our fill
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effect
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drag it above this ball action effect
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and if you want you can use white color
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also you can play around with blending
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modes if you can't see this blending
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mode just hit here on this expand or
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collapse icon to see our blending modes
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maybe soft light or something like that
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and you will see this tiny white spot
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also you can duplicate this one if you
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want and to get something like this
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all right next thing what we're going to
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do is to create our text to grab this
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text text handle here or or Control Plus
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T horizontal type tool and then we will
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hit here uh
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to create our new text I'm using this
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sign font height 150 and we will type
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creative something like this use align
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tool up to align it to the center go
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align also if you can't find a line go
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here window and then hit here to align
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all right
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and this will be our first text we will
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animate it here in our animate panel go
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here animate choose position
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also add another parameter go here add
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and then property and then go here
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opacity alright for this position we
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will do maybe around
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110 10.
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something like this and opacity to zero
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for now open up this range selector here
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and move up to maybe around 1 seconds 20
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frame hit this off offset go around 100
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go to the first keyframe and then go to
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minus 100.
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open up this Advanced Tab and choose
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this shape from Square to ram pop and
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also is high and is low 50 percent
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something like this all right next thing
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what we're going to do is to hit W to
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find out those keyframes choose them hit
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F9 on your keyboard then go here in the
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graph editor if you can't find a curve
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like this hit right click and then edit
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speed graph okay and then I draw a line
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like this
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something like that alright when we hit
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zero we're getting this really cool
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animation also if you want you can
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randomize order go here
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in our Advanced Tab and hip to here to
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randomize order choose on and we will
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get really really cool animation
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really cool alright next thing what
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we're going to do is to duplicate our
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creative text hit control plus d on your
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keyboard or go here edit and then
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duplicate and first the fact that we're
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going to import is our fill effect
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choose black color and second one second
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the fact that we're going to use is
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radial
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fast blur move it here and then this
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second text move it
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around here all right and we're getting
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something like this
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next thing what we're going to do is to
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hit here on the radial fast blur then
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choose this tiny spot
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and move it around here and for a mount
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you can go around
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85 percent something like this and when
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we hit zero we're getting this really
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really cool animation also next thing
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what we're going to do is to link this
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second text with our first text so when
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you uh when you change this first text
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it will automatically change this uh
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awesome shadow in behind go text here
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and then also text here
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something like this hold alt on your
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keyboard for this Source text second
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Shadow hit alt and then use a pick whip
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to drag and drop here in our source text
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something like this
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and also when we hit uh here and to
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change text
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something like this our shadows has been
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update updated here
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really cool alright I will do command
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plus Z just to see this creative text
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and final thing what we're going to
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create here is to add another adjustment
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layer first adjustment layer something
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like this we will name it
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spotlight
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and find Spotlight effect here
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in effects and preset drag and drop here
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and we will readjust your settings drag
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this one this point here something like
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this uh Edge softness go around 100
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for this cone angle maybe around here
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something like this
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all right you can play around with those
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numbers to get a result that you want
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something like this
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intensity around 70
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and we're getting this really cool
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looking scene here in After Effects
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all right and now when we hit zero we're
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getting this really cool and creative
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scene
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also one thing I forgotten to mention is
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that you can animate this Shadow behind
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this text we can also
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uh rename it for shadow something like
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this and you can play around with this
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something like this go around maybe two
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seconds hit keyframe for Center and for
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the first seconds move it around here
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and when we hit zero we're getting this
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really cool animation
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it's up to you if you want these static
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Shadows or these moving Shadows uh you
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will create your own way
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all right guys this was a really cool
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tutorial I hope that you learned
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something new I want to thank you again
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for for watching this uh creative
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tutorial if you haven't subscribed to my
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channel hit that subscribe button and
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new clip also take a look on my profile
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page on my channel for even more great
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projects also all links are in the
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description and until next time stay
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creative and bye bye
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[Music]
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thank you