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Essential properties

Essential properties - After Effects Tutorial

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Essential properties

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- [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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