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Solid Layers | Adobe After Effects | Tutorials Point
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Sep 23, 2024
In this video, we are going to learn about Solid layers in adobe after effects, Solid layers are used to create so many things like, 1. Solid layers in after effects to create Masks 2. Solid layers in after effects to create different backgrounds. 3. Solid layers in after effects to create Shapes 1. Solid layers in after effects to use plugins like Saber. And there is much more use of Solid layers in adobe after effects which you will see in advance topics in the after-effects course. Watch more Videos at https://www.tutorialspoint.com/market... Lecture By: Mr. Rushi Panchal, Tutorials Point India Private Limited To download tutorix app - http://bit.ly/2ROKdEG
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Hello friends welcome to tutorial's point in this video we are going to learn solid layers in after effects
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Hello friends in this video we are going to learn about solids or solids layer
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So these solids and solids layer are different in this video we are going to learn about this both and also differentiate what is solids and what is solids layer
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so solids and solids layer are have too many advantages which we are going to learn in
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your upcoming videos for now I'm showing you how to create a solid layer so sorry
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for creating a solid layers you have to go layer new and from here you can see
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solid okay you can also create a solid by shortcut control plus y
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fine just click here and now here you have to select the name of the
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this solid layer you can also change the dimension you can satire with an height also
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you can change the color of this solid layer so I'm just clicking this and just make it make
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it a little bit of okay gold kind of solid just press okay okay as you can see I'm
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changing my color and the name is automatically change medium gray yellow solid one
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okay and press okay so guys as you can see I'm just expanding this so you can
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you will know the full name so this is our solid layer and as you can see after
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creating this solid layers automatically one folder is created over here which is called solids okay inside these solids okay there is a two solids black
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solid one and medium solid one this black solid one we already created in a
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one previous video that why this black solid one is still here and right now we are creating a medium gray solid yellow one that why this solid also done over here So now you can also change your solid name from here
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Just press enter and you can set golden solid and press enter
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So this is our solid layer. Okay and this is our source solid layer
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So whatever name you are changing over here it will be not affecting in your project panel
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So guys as you can see, this is our source solid layer. solid layer and this is our solids okay in this solids all the solids layer are
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added so the another way to create a solid layers by shortcuts control
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plus y or you can also right click on here go to new and create a solids okay
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I'm just cancel right now now if you are duplicating the solid layers just
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press control plus D to duplicate it so as you can see the automatically
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these solid layers are duplicate by the previous one now if you want
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to change this solid layer settings then go to layer and press solid settings okay
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and the shortcut for this is control plus shift plus y fine just click here and now
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as you can see you can change the name I'm just pressing golden layer 2 okay
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and I'm just changing the color by this okay and if you want the these settings
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will apply to all the solids in this particular timeline panel then you can click this affect all layers
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that use in this solids as you can see after clicking this just check over here
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whenever I'm switching off the golden solid will be golden if I am not pressing
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this then it will be applied to all the solids layer so for now I'm just press
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this off changing this to little bit of this color and press okay so as you can see both are different for now I just deleting this one now you can also use the solids layer for creating a different different backgrounds okay and for creating the backgrounds you can use your effects and presets in effect and presets many
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effect and presets need a solid layers for example you can see here deep tissue
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okay just double click on it or you can also drag and drop so as you can see on
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our golden solid this deep tissue is applied this is a by default
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animation okay as you can see animation is already done in this solid layer you just have to play this timeline and as you can see your animation is done okay now you can also creating a mask using the solid layers how just click clicking of this solid layer and go to this I'm just adding this rectangle over here or you can also creating a ellipse okay just pressing shift to creating a proper
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lips okay now I'm just selecting a mask and moving around this footage or you can
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say moving around in solid layers I'm just applying some feathers I'm just
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applying some feathers over here so okay okay so see the effect it's look good
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now so you can also applying the mask on the solid layer so if there is a
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too many property in the mass just go one by one practice by yourself and you will
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learn a lot in this software so this is only about the increasing and decreasing
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the value and change what happen to changing the values so for now I'm just
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reading this solid layers and now I'm showing you how to create a background okay
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just creating a new solid layer I'm just adding the same as the previous one
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okay make as a com size you can also change the size of this
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solid layer but you can if you want the solid layer same as your composition size then click on here if I changing this just showing for the demo okay now my solid layer size will be this but if I
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want to same as my composition size then just click on this make com size so as you can see
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this will be change see so now my solid layers size will same as the composition size
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and press okay so in the presets and effects there are a lot of backgrounds
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over that by default backgrounds you just have to drag and drop and do some changes and you
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can create your own background or you can also doing by creating the mask okay in the
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preset there's a background okay there are a lot of background just check one by one
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which one you like see there's a very cool effect you can just drag and drop and you
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can see the effect okay you can also change the values from here to make it whatever
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you like okay so just go through these all the backgrounds and change the values and
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see what is going to happen in the solid layers so what you have to do is just
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practice by yourself see the changes and applying your project I'm applying
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the cylinders as you can see just deleting the previous one circuit oh wow very
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nice matrix kind of effect so there are a lot of background over here just
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go through one by one and you can also create your bunch of backgrounds for your
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projects so you no need to purchase your backgrounds from the websites or any
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paid website just create your background by yourself and enjoy it so guys
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these are all about the solid layers or solids in the upcoming videos we are
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going to learn about animation with key frames okay thank you guys see you in
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the next video thank you so much
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