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thank you
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hello guys of Tony here welcome to
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another video tutorial this is going to
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be really cool video Lesson uh first of
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all like always I want to thank you for
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following me for watching my videos and
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whenever I post a new clip okay let's
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see what we're going to create today
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thank you
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alright we're back here in After Effects
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and first like always we're going to
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create a new composition hit Control
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Plus n or this little icon here to
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create a new com for this composition
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name we will rename it too
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background
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with 1920 by 1080 30 frames per seconds
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and for duration you can set up to maybe
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around 7 Seconds
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hit OK and now it's time to create our
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first layer hit right click here in our
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timeline then go new and then to create
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a new solid we will rename it
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background once again and then hit OK
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and our first effect that we're going to
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use is going to be four color gradient
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go here in FX and preset and find this
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for color gradient if you can't find
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effects in preset go to window and then
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just hit here to see effects increase
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the drag and drop onto our background
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layer and it's time to make a few
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adjustments here in our background
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composition you can readjust it that
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those handles like so first second third
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and fourth and now we will change our
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colors for this color or one I will do
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some this kind of orange one for this
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second color maybe darker orange color
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or so hit OK for third color I will do a
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green color find it here
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like so
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something like this and also I can use
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this eyedropper to use this color tree
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also for our color four like so you can
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also readjust even more
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and when you're satisfied just hit OK
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here in our Color Picker all right our
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next effect is going to be CC threads uh
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duplicate this background layer or go
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edit and then duplicate also rename it
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CC
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treads and now we can delete this Four
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Color gradient effect and file here in
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effects and preset CC
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threats okay drag and drop onto our CC
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threads layer and now we will do also
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few adjustments here for this coverage
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go to around three shadowing to maybe
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around uh 100 and for texture go to
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around 50 or so and also Direction I
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will type 35 like so now we have this
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really cool pattern here on our
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background okay now it's time to
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duplicate this CC threads and we will
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change our blending mode from normal to
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Overlay for this one also for the second
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one if you can't find this toggle switch
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the node just hit here on expand or
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collapse icon and now it's time to add
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another effect here in our scene also
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right click and then new to create a new
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solid layer and we will rename it CC
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star burst hit enter or OK and go here
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in the effects and present and find star
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burst effect okay drag and drop onto our
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Starburst layer and also we will make a
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few adjustments here for this scatter go
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to around 220 available over down our
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speed to maybe
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0.2 or so and now when we hit zero we
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have this kind of particles animation
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also we will do a fill effect just to
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change our color
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like so we'll change it to White and
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also we will add a little bit of glow
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type glow move it here and now we have
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this glowy particles really cool
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background also what we can do is to add
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a fill effect here in our threads type
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fill again and drag and drop onto our
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threads layer and change color to white
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hit Ctrl C to copy this effect and also
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paste it on our CC threads too okay now
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it's time to bring our background on the
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highest level with our next effect and
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first what we're going to do is to hit
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Ctrl a or choose all of those layers and
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then right click click to pre-compose it
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and I'll rename it just one okay make
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sure to move all attributes into the new
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composition and then hit OK on your
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keyboard and now I will add our next
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effect CC
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glue gun but not so well known but
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really cool and creative effect for this
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stroke with I will do around 120 for
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density leave it to 25 time spent also
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zero seconds and for reflection go
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around 35 okay and also what we can do
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is to go here in the light and for the
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light intensity to around 50. okay now
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what we can do is to rearrange our
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colors of course go to here hit F3 for
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our for color gradient and grab these
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handles move it to around here and maybe
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to go even darker even darker orange
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color like so now in our background con
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we have something like this all right
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our next step is to hit p on our one
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composition hold alt on your keyboard
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and then then type next expression we go
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open and close bracket one comma 50.
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okay now when we hit zero we have this
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moving shape really cool okay hit V on
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your keyboard move this one composition
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to around here and now it's time to
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duplicate this one camp for a few times
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hit here hit Ctrl plus d or go to edit
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and then duplicate move this second one
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around here
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I will rename it to just two
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duplicate once again move it around here
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duplicate once again move it around here
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once again around here and our sixth
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comp will be around here now when we hit
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zero we have this wobbly cool animation
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okay we will also add a drop shadow for
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all of our layers go to effects and
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preset and type drop shadow and choose
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all of our layers double click here and
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for this distance leave it to five for
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softness go around
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30 or so now we also added this really
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cool drop shadow here when we hit zero
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you will see our really cool looking
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shadows in our finals okay our next step
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is to create a text layer here in our
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background com hit Control Plus t or go
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here on this horizontal type tool and
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I'm using this monster at black font uh
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160 font size and just hit here on our
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finals and I will just just type random
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background text
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background make sure to align to the
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center like so and grab this background
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layer and move it to around here in the
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middle of our composition hit V and you
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can readjust it like so and now this is
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looking really cool to me okay our next
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step is to add also a drop shadow effect
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here on our background layer and just
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for this distance we will leave it to
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five and for softness maybe around 10.
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also what we can do is to duplicate once
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again this effect to see our shadows
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even better and we will also add a
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little bit of movement for our
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background open up this Little Triangle
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go to animate find tracking go to around
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zero frames for tracking amount set hour
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first keyframe 0 and then go to around
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maybe six or seven seconds and type here
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60 or so now when we hit 0 we have this
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cool background animation also next step
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is to add our blending mode here mode to
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blending modes and choose overlay also
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duplicate control plus d once again and
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now choose this soft light blending mode
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and when we hit zero we have this
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background moving text and it's looking
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really cool for now okay now it's time
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to pre-compose all of our layers once
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again hit Ctrl a on your keyboard or
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choose them all and then right click to
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pre-compose and for the composition name
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I will rename it
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background
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plus elements and move make sure to move
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all attributes into the new composition
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hit OK and now it's time to add further
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adjustments hit Ctrl D on your keyboard
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or go edit and then duplicate and for
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this blending mode choose also overlay
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and then go here in background plus
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elements come go to this one and copy
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all of our four layers hit Ctrl C or go
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edit and then copy and also now it's
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time to go back here in background comp
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and hit Ctrl V to paste move it down
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like so and now we have this really cool
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looking scene with our circles with our
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star burst and so on okay now hit F3
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here on our background layer and we will
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choose for this first color black one
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and also for this color three this black
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colors hit okay and now when we hit zero
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we have something really cool also you
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can readjust our start burst to maybe
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from 220 go to around
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300 or so but it's up to you and now
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this is looking really cool okay our
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next step is to add our shadows on our
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edges right click and then create a new
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adjustment layer and I will rename it CC
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Spotlight and find this Spotlight effect
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here in our effects and present drag and
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drop onto our Spotlight adjustment layer
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and you can play around with those
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handles I grab this one here or so and
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for the height maybe to around here Edge
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softness you can play around of course
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like so for intensity go to around maybe
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50 or 60
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and now this is looking really really
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awesome and creative
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all right guys uh that that was
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everything for today's motion graphic uh
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tutorial for this uh really cool
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background animation you can also change
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your colors to maybe blue red whatever
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you like but I think this is looking
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really nice for this video tutorial uh
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and I want to thank you again for
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watching this video take a look on my
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channel for even more great tutorials
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also if you haven't subscribed to my
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channel uh hit that subscribe button and
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post a new clip and until next time stay
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creative and bye bye
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thank you
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