Video effects

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[00:00:18] facts certification preparation series

[00:00:21] of videos I'm Louisa Winters in this

[00:00:24] video I want to cover objective 4.6 a

[00:00:27] which is to apply and adjust the video

[00:00:30] effect or preset to a layer and in here

[00:00:33] we're going to talk about adding and

[00:00:34] adjusting video effect properties in the

[00:00:37] effect controls and also in the timeline

[00:00:40] piece of cake let's get to it in After

[00:00:44] Effects please go ahead and open the

[00:00:46] composition named apply and effect or

[00:00:48] preset to a layer it's the second

[00:00:50] composition here and as usual if you

[00:00:52] haven't downloaded the files that's okay

[00:00:54] create a new project new composition add

[00:00:57] a layer to it and add some effects

[00:00:59] alright so here we go to open this

[00:01:00] composition double click it you're going

[00:01:03] to see that in here there are already

[00:01:05] two effects applied the bevel Alpha and

[00:01:08] the spherize if you have the layer

[00:01:11] closed like that right

[00:01:14] and in the test they're saying oh adjust

[00:01:16] the blah blah blah effect you know what

[00:01:18] select the layer press the letter e e

[00:01:21] for effect and you're going to see them

[00:01:24] in here and then you will be able to

[00:01:25] expand them like yay

[00:01:28] if they tell you oh look at the effect

[00:01:30] controls panel blah blah blah select the

[00:01:32] layer click on the layer even if it's

[00:01:34] collapsed like this it doesn't matter

[00:01:36] click on the layer name and now go to

[00:01:39] window

[00:01:41] effect controls and notice that it has

[00:01:43] the name of the layer boom done it

[00:01:47] should open in the top left

[00:01:48] and in here you will clearly see the

[00:01:52] effects so you can adjust the effects

[00:01:54] here done

[00:01:56] done

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[00:02:00] right

[00:02:01] you can change that radius and you can

[00:02:04] also adjust them here in the timeline e

[00:02:07] for effect expand

[00:02:09] expand and you can change these however

[00:02:13] you want if you want to reset you can

[00:02:17] reset either here in the effect controls

[00:02:19] panel or in the timeline simply by

[00:02:22] clicking the word reset

[00:02:24] all right so when it comes to keyframing

[00:02:27] you can also keyframe in here for

[00:02:28] example you can keyframe the edge

[00:02:30] thickness

[00:02:32] let's say we want to start at zero and

[00:02:35] I'm going to go to here three seconds

[00:02:36] and now we want it to go to about yay

[00:02:40] that's it done

[00:02:42] now you can also keyframe other things

[00:02:46] let's say we can keyframe the light

[00:02:48] angle you can keyframe it here in the

[00:02:50] effect controls panel you can go all the

[00:02:53] way here don't forget that as you scrub

[00:02:55] you can press and hold the shift key so

[00:02:58] that the playhead snaps to visible

[00:03:00] things in this case this keyframe and

[00:03:03] now I can change the light angle

[00:03:06] and now the bevel is growing and the

[00:03:08] light angle is changing at the same time

[00:03:11] so I can keyframe things in the timeline

[00:03:14] and in the effect controls panel

[00:03:17] easy peasy in reality it's the same

[00:03:19] thing it's just a different interface

[00:03:21] for the same same thing

[00:03:23] so for the test for the test if you see

[00:03:29] things close you don't see an effect

[00:03:31] controls panel and you know you don't

[00:03:34] see anything you know and they tell you

[00:03:36] oh adjust the effect of blah blah blah

[00:03:39] and you just go oh my God where is the

[00:03:41] effect

[00:03:42] do one of two things or even better do

[00:03:44] them both

[00:03:45] select the layer press the letter e for

[00:03:48] effect e for effect all right

[00:03:52] with the layer still select the go to

[00:03:54] window effect controls and you see how

[00:03:57] it has the name of the layer boom and

[00:04:01] there you have it you will be able to

[00:04:02] adjust things either in the timeline or

[00:04:06] in the effect controls panel all right

[00:04:08] so this was a very short objective very

[00:04:11] short movie and this is the end of it

[00:04:13] thank you for watching and I'll see you

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