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FAST and DYNAMIC Intro After Effects Tutorial
Jul 3, 2024
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hello guys soft Tony here and in today's
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tutorial we will be creating a fast and
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dynamic intro or slideshow that looks
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truly amazing step by step we will make
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this cool animation and this is truly a
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technique that everyone can use to make
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their unique slideshow or intro just
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import your images or videos and create
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an animation that will stand out and
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grab attention and before we begin make
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sure to subscribe to my channel hit the
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like button and turn on the notification
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Bell so you don't miss any of my
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upcoming video tutorials and without any
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further Ado let's jump into after
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effects and get
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started all right we're here in After
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Effects and first like always let's
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create new composition hit on this
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little icon this is going to be final
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comp and for the duration let's go to
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around 30 seconds or type your your own
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number for me this is okay 30 frames per
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second and width and height full HD
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90/20 x 1080 and then hit okay now let's
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create another composition this is going
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to be slide 01 199020 x 1080 also and
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for the duration I will go 7 seconds and
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let's also create third composition
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media 01 also 90/20 x 1080 7 Seconds
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long hit okay now close this final
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composition for now and let's drag and
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drop our media 01 here inside the new
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composition as you can see I already
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have footage from pexels.com of course
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you will import your own media readjust
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it here in the scene if you need I'll
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just go s for scaling to readjust it
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like so hit P for position also if you
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need and now let's import this media
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composition here inside the slide o1
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composition find here in the project
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window and just drag and drop into the
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slide 01 now let's make movement for
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this media o01 go here at zero frames
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hit s for scaling set up the first key
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frame and let's type 120 then let's go
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to around 3 seconds and let's type 100
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now let's duplicate this media o1 hit
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control+ D or go edit and then duplicate
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this is going to be color 01 okay and
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now let's select this color 01 this is
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the second media and just double click
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on this little icon rectangle tool to
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create mask okay now let's go here to
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around 1 second and 15 frames okay open
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up this mask property and set up the
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first key frame for mask pad okay now go
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to around 0 second and 15 frames and
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let's go select your mask and let's make
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a movement like this okay now select
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both of the key frames hit F9 on your
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keyboard and let's go to the graph
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editor and if you can see curve like
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this just go right click and hit here
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addit speed graph and now let's create
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curve like this
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okay and now when we hit zero nothing
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happens this is because we need tint or
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Triton effect go here and find try an
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effect drag and drop on this color 01
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and find here your random color for me
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let's try maybe this type of orange hit
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okay and now when we hit zero we also
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see this orange color now let's
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duplicate this color o1 hit control+ D
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okay hit also you to show all of the key
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frames for color 1 and color two and
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let's select this mask key frames and
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move it to around 1 second all the way
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to maybe 2 seconds or so and now when we
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hit zero we have this movement and this
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second one let's also change color to
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maybe this type of yellow color okay now
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let's also hit control+ D once again
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this is going to be color Tre hit U
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select both of the key frames and move
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it somewhere around here and now let's
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also change colors to maybe again orange
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or so just play around with your colors
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hit okay now hit zero in the scene first
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second and third color and this is
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looking awesome now let's also create
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solid layer go right click to create new
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solid layer this is going to be bg4
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background also 920 by 1080 and then hit
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okay also let's create text hit control+
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t or go and find your horizontal type
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tool make sure to unselect everything
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for the font I'm using this monster at
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black 150 font size I'll just type
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random text S Tony like so select it and
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then go to align and align to the center
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if you can find a line just go window
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and you will find a line here okay now
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let's select this background solid layer
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and then go to around 3 seconds or so
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hit P4 position set up the first key
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frame and then go to around 2 seconds or
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so and let's move this x parameter all
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the way to the right side like this and
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for this ofon text hit also P4 position
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go to around 3 seconds also set up the
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first key frame then also go to around 2
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seconds and move this one to the left
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side and opposite side of this
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background solid layer now let's select
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all of the four key frames hit F9 go to
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graph editor and let's create a curve
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like before okay and for the final step
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let's select this background and for the
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track met find here Alpha inverted
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now hit zero first animation second
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third and fourth and this is looking
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great now click also on this background
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once again go here in the effects and
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pres it find ramp effect okay drag and
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drop onto this solid layer and here
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basically you can play around with the
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colors for the start of the ramp and end
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of the ramp okay for the first color
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let's change maybe to this dark orange
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color you can also use ey dropper like
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this and for the second color let's do
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make maybe something like this hit okay
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and now let's hit zero in the
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composition and this is looking awesome
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you can play around a bit more if you
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want to see the contrast different
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colors everything is up to you okay I
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will close this effects control for now
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this is our slide 01 we have already
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created this final composition Now open
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up and just drag and drop this slide o1
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inside this final composition okay this
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is going to be our slide o1 cool now
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what we can do is to duplicate here
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slide o01 in the project window hit
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control+ D now we have also slide O2
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open up and select also this media 01
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all the way to color O3 now let's also
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duplicate this media o1 here in the
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project window now we have also this
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media O2 rename it and now let's drag
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and drop while you're holding alt on
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your keyboard on top of all of those
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four compositions and now let's click
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here layer name this is all media O2
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okay now open up this media O2 and just
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replace your first image with your
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second image like so and this is looking
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cool and let's also import this slide o1
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here in the final composition okay and
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now as you can see this is our slide 01
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okay and this is our slide O2 now what
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we can do is to select again on this
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slide O2 hit P4 position and let's move
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this light O2 to the left side like so
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here somewhere and now let's also find
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the frame where our slide 01 is finished
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with the animation but before that we
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have forgotten to do out animation for
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the text and for the background open up
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this slide o01 once again select this
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sof Tony text hit U to show all of the
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key frames then grab this position key
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frames hit control+ C to copy go to 3
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seconds and 15 frames and hit control+ V
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to paste it now go right click for the
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last two key frames go right click key
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frame assistance and find here option
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time reverse key frames okay do the same
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for the background hit U select position
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key frames hit control+ C paste it and
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then go right click key frame assistance
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and go here time reverse key frames also
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we will do everything the same for the
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slide O2 hit you for the text ctrl+ C
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paste it on 3 second and 15 frames right
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click reverse and also for the
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background hit ctrl+ C and repeat the
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same
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everything okay and now here when we hit
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zero we have this in animation of our
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image and this is going to be our out
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animation Okay go again here in the
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slide 01 and let's create the lines but
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before that let's turn on titles and
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action save and also now go here and
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select this span tool or hit G on your
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keyboard and make sure to unselect
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everything and for this stroke I will do
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four pixels make sure the our fill is
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set to none and let's create random line
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like so okay I'm using shift on my
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keyboard for those two points okay let's
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rename this one to line one and open up
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this Little Triangle find on ADD trim
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pads and now let's animate the trim pads
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go to maybe around 2 second and 5 frames
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or so something like this set up the
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first key frame for start and end and
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let's type here 100 for the both
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parameters and then let's go to around 2
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seconds and maybe 22 or 3 frames or so
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and let's type here zero okay now select
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all of the four key frames hit F9 go to
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graph editor and let's make a curve like
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this okay now select just and key frames
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and move it slightly to the right side
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and now when we hit zero we have this
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cool animation of this cool line now
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let's duplicate this line one hit
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control+ D or edit and then duplicate
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once again hit R for rotation and
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instead of zero let's type
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180 hit zero to see
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everything and as you can see our lines
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are looking cool if you want to see the
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line animation just inside this
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background you can use this background
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as a met hit control+ D move it above
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above this line O2 and for the track
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mats for this line two find Alpha mat
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and now we're making sure that our line
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animation is here inside the background
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solid layer let's hit zero again and our
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animation is looking great now let's
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copy this line one and line two hit
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ctrl+ C then go here to slide two paste
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it okay and make sure that our line O2
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is set to no track met move it above and
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just let's duplicate once again this
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background here inside this slide O2
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move it above and for the track met
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let's repeat the process Alpha mat H
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zero again
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and our animation is looking cool okay
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now go here in the final composition and
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for this slide O2 go here to maybe 3
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second and 15 frames or so okay our
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slide O2 is outside the main composition
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hit P4 position and set up the first key
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frame and then go to around 4 second and
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maybe 15 frames or so and let's type
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instead of this number
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960 and now this slide O2 is going to be
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here in the center of the final comp
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position now grab both of the key frames
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hit F9 go to graph editor and draw the
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same curve like before now hit zero to
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see the preview first slide in animation
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and this is our slide O2 you can also
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play around here with the key frames if
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you want to see faster or slower
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animation just reposition this second
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key frame you can also reposition this
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slide O2 according your needs just play
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around until you're satisfied with your
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your own final results what you can also
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do is to go here inside slide O2 change
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text maybe instead of soft Tony I'll
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just type random text motion you can
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change colors for this first second and
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third media also background color hit F3
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and you can do swp colors or change to
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another color let's do just random
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colors maybe this yellow color and for
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the second one let's go maybe this one
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I'm just using this random colors to
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show you the way hit okay go here in the
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final again hit zero first
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animation this is slide 01 and this is
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going to be our slide
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O2 all right guys that was everything
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for today's tutorial this was a cool way
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and cool technique to create this fast
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slide show I hope you learned something
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new use this technique to create even
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more slides just duplicate everything
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here in the project window use alt on
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your keyboard while you're dragging one
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media on top of the another okay and you
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can also create as many slides as you
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want here and also if you found this
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creative and bye-bye
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