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Learn essential techniques to simulate the distinctive characteristics of old VHS tapes and CRT monitors, including scanlines, noise, and color distortion.
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hello guys soft Tony here welcome back
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to my channel and in today's video we
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will be creating a VHS text effect with
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a cool looking scene and achieving great
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results in a simple way step by step we
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will create the vintage looking
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animation and this is truly a technique
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that everyone can use and before we
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begin make sure to subscribe to my
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channel hit the like button and turn on
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the notification Bell so you don't miss
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any of my future video tutorials and
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without any further Ado let's jump into
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after effects and start
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creating all right we're here in After
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Effects and as always let's create new
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composition hit on this little icon or
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control or command plus n and this is
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going to be final like usual 9020 x 1080
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and for this tutorial we will do 24
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frames per seconds and for the duration
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let's go to around 15 seconds hit okay
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and now let's drag and drop the media of
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course you will import your own I
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already have this free footage from
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pixels.com all right and now let's make
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this media 01 kind of old and noisy
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footage go here in the facts and preset
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and first effect is going to be noise
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just Dragon drop on the media and for
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the amount of noise I will do maybe to
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around 20% our next effect is going to
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be cross blur CC cross blur Dragon job
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also on the media 01 and for the X
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radius I will do maybe around 20 and now
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as you can see our media is looking
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different than our first and untouched
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original footage all right now it's time
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to create our text I will hit control+ t
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or go and hit this little icon and I
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will just type random text
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VHS effect okay I'm using this Bas no
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font of course you can use uh whatever
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font you want okay go here on a line
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align it to the center if you can't find
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a line just go window you will find a
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line here
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okay now go here again in the effects
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and preset find wave warp effect drag
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and drop onto the VHS text all right and
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for this wave type let's change to noise
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and for the wave height type here one
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and for the wave WID 150 you can also
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play around with the speed I will do
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0.1 all right now let's duplicate this
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wave warp effect hit control+ D or go
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edit and then duplicate and for the wave
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height instead of one let's Ty five and
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for the wave type change from noise to
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sign like so and for the speed you can
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also hear play around I will do maybe
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0.5 and now when we hit zero we have
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this cool effect of our VHS text all
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right now let's precompose this VHS
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effect go right click to precompose this
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is going to be just text 01 and then hit
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okay and for the first effect this is
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going to be fail effect on our new
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composition drag and drop change color
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to p pure white color like so and let's
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also add past box blur Dragon drop onto
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the new composition and let's also
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change here blue Dimensions from this
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first option to the vertical and for the
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blue radius type five and iterations
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change to 7 and now here as you can see
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in the preview we have this Blu-ray lock
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of this VHS text now hit t for the
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opacity I will do 50% and also change
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blending mode from normal to add like so
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and let's duplicate this text o1 hit
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control+ D hit T4 opacity this is going
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to be 60% and let's hit control+ D once
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again and let's change this one to 70%
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now let's duplicate this text o1 this is
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going to be our main text like so you
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can also change the color here change
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here whatever fits to you all right and
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just delete this fast box blue effect
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for this first text 01 now hit zero and
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our effect is looking looking great next
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thing what we're going to do is to
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create solid layer go right click to
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create new solid layer okay I will just
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rename this one to FN for fractal noise
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we will create here fractal noise effect
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and this one we will use as a reference
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hit okay go here in the effects and
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preset find fractal noise effect drag
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and drop onto this solid layer and here
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let's make further adjustments for the
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contrast let's type 300 brightness minus
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100 okay complexity leave it down to two
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open up this transform option andcheck
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this uniform scaling and for the scale
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width let's go to around 200 okay and
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for the scale height let's try maybe 40
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now let's animate this Evolution hold
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alt on your keyboard and left Mouse
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click on the evolution stopwatch and
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type here time asterisk 1,000 okay now
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hit zero we have this type of animation
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and let's also animate this scale with
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hold alt left Mouse click and type here
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expression wiggle open and close
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brackets and type 2 comma 10 okay and
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also for the final step let's animate
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offset turbulence set up the first key
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frame here at zero frames and then go
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all the way to around 15 seconds and for
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this y parameter let's type
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3,000 hit zero again to show the preview
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we have this reference fractal Noise
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Okay now we can turn this off and let's
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add adjustment layer go right click to
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create adjustment layer all right and go
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here in the F and preset and type
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displacement map effect drag and drop
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onto the adjustment layer and here let's
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also make further adjustments change
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this vertical displacement to zero all
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right and for the reference we will use
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this fractal noise solid layer okay also
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change this from source to effects and
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mask and now when we hit zero we have
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this really great looking VHS text
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effect in every moment you can go here
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in fractal noise change options to get
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the look that you want for me this is
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looking cool and for the next step let's
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also precompose everything all the way
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from this text o01 to the fractal noise
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select everything and then go right
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click precompose this is going to be
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Text Plus elements hit okay and as you
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can see this is looking great if you
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want to add a bit of colors here you can
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just duplicate this text plus elements h
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control+ d hit T4 pity change it to 40%
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and for the blending mode instead of
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normal change here to screen and let's
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add our next effect type here shift
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channels drag and drop onto this first
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text plus elements you can of course
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change colors maybe I don't know I'll do
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just this random color red and now here
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in the shift channels effect let's
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change few options take Green from Green
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change to full off also this take Blue
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from also change to full off and hit P4
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position let's type here 900 and 70 or
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move the position slightly to the right
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or to the left and as you can see we
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have this cool looking red color now
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let's duplicate this once again let's
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change here composition color and also
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let's make another adjustment here take
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red from Red just go here and fall off
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and for the second option change here of
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course green now hit P4 position and
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instead of
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970 type 950 now we have also this cool
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looking green color let's do duplicate
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this once again change this one to I
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don't know blue like this and let's
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repeat everything go here on this Stay
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Green from change to full off and also
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take Blue from find here blue now hit P4
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position and instead of 950 let's try
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940 like so and we have also this cool
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looking blue color and now when we hit
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zero our VHS effect is looking great one
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thing that we have also forgotten to do
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open up our text we can also animate it
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open up this Little Triangle go to
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animate find here scale and let's also
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set up the first key frame for scale
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here and type zero and then go to maybe
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1 second or so and let's type here 100
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now go here also on ad find here
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property and let's find BL okay and
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let's also go here at zero frame set up
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the first key frame type 100 and then go
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all the way to 1 second and let's type
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for the blur zero now select all of the
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four key frames go right click key frame
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assistance and let's go here and find
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easy is option or just hit F9 on your
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keyboard and now when we hit zero we
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have also animation of our VHS effect
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and in the final composition hit zero
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and this is looking really great all
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right guys that was everything for
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today's tutorial and as usual I hope you
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