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Essential properties - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects CC 2022 Essential Training
Essential properties
- [Instructor] Part of the creative process is iteration, trying different things and seeing what works and what doesn't. Essential properties is a powerful time saving feature that provides After Effects users with an efficient method of creating multiple versions of your work without creating duplicate pre-comps. It's a system of overrides that allows us to tweak any property non-destructively including existing animation. Let's take a look. In this O2 composition, I've got a bounce for this shape and with each bounce, it's changing the number of sides or number of points. And I'm feeding that into this O3 main composition. Now, if we wanted to take this as a starting point and make some changes to it, or check out variations, we would traditionally have to duplicate the O2 bounce composition and make the changes there. But with essential properties, we can make that change directly inside of this main composition. To do…
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Understanding keyframe interpolations5m 43s
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Adding and adjusting keys5m 23s
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Using the Graph Editor: Speed6m 44s
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Using the Graph Editor: Value5m 14s
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Altering speeds with time remapping6m 33s
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Anchor point fundamentals4m 44s
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Parenting6m 22s
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Using expressions to loop animation5m 54s
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Essential Graphics panel6m 40s
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Essential properties5m 25s
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