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Pre-compose to solve timing and workflow blockers

Pre-compose to solve timing and workflow blockers - After Effects Tutorial

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Pre-compose to solve timing and workflow blockers

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There's one main solution to most workflow problems in After Effects. It's known as pre-composing, and here's how it works. In this lesson, I'll show you a couple of need-to-know preparations to make the next shot work smoothly, and we'll look at, more generally, how to handle these kind of issues. So, for the wave, I'm going to want to mask it and have it wash right over the word here. And I'll create the mask with the Rotobrush tool. Rotobrush lives right up here along the other tools. We haven't used it yet. It's this one. I'll just click it and What the heck drag on the wave and I immediately get an error Now in this case, I just have to read it and it tells me I need to double-click to open it in a layer panel So I'll say okay thanks for the reminder and Do exactly that in the layer panel. I'll try again this time. I see the tool It's got a green outline. If yours doesn't look like this and you're trying it, it may be scaled down like that. You can just hold down command or ctrl…

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