Hi guys in this lecture are you going to explore a bit how to use solid solitaires as backgrounds for
compositions or partial backgrounds maybe for part of the composition.
First of all let's explore the background color in the composition settings.
Let's for example doubleclick on this composition.
It's a very nice animation we have done before.
Let's change the background color of this composition from composition settings and give it a nice green
color something that you would like something like this by turn.
This will do for example.
And we click OK I've got this here.
I can see a background color for the composition but actually if I come to the transparency button here
click on it this color disappears.
So is this really a real background or not.
Well if you're kind of this way and in before for example without transparency you'll see this color
but it put it that way and you render it that movie for example with transparency you will not see the
color.
Let me prove it to you.
If you can't tell a composition here and take the YouTube title not just has a background click and
drag and drop it over the you're You'll notice that the background color that you put from position
settings did not come in.
So actually background colors and not nested.
Maybe you can use them just to help you walk but when you're a composition you bring it in and you make
it as pick up the background color doesn't come in.
You can come to the pre-camp and add a solid layer to create a background.
Let's make this one composition setting let's take it to black.
Like if there is nothing.
So here you can add a story there to create the background.
Let's do this let's first of all reduce the size of the composers or put it on transparency.
Come here and I will use now the region of interest to create you know something like this.
I will go to composition and say Club camp to Region of it just now.
Let's add a solid layer so I right click new solid and I will make make it the size of the comp so this
is the size of the composition here and click ok.
Of course it came on top.
I would drag it up put it down.
Maybe I'll open the transparency and reduce the transparency a bit or a lot come back to those.
Here you are.
Your know its composition has a background.
Let's take a video for example the river here and drop it under your pre-camp is very beautiful.
Now you can select your composition and light on the bottom.
Now the pre-camp or the that composition is coming is on background.
That's pretty good.
Let's take the second one which is solid background and ethics I would double click on it it just blank.
Let's go back to the YouTube title and remove the solid lead or make it invisible.
Now I come back to the three.
Number three I will take the cube and just drop it in so it doesn't have any background coming with
it.
Now I want to add a nice background here for my YouTube channel where the best way is to use a solid
layer.
Not is that in the course.
Sometimes I use the rectangle tool to create the background.
This was because I hadn't of Duty yet to the street laughs so that I had a new background here new solid.
And of course make sure it's the size of the composition and give it for example this color will do
this make it a bit lighter.
OK.
I click OK.
OK.
So now I have really a layer that is acting as a background now solid layers.
They come with a solid color.
You can do is start adding certain effects to style them.
In this lecture I will show you only two effects but later on you will notice that there are so many
eFax you can add that which style your background with any composition.
Let's go to the effect and present.
The first fact I want to show you that is very much in use is the vignette in motion graphics and in
editing vignette R-S.C. vignette is very much in use as laggards and lappet on the solid line not as
the vignette what it does it highlights the center and diems the borders.
That's a job.
This is actually exaggerated too much.
The idea the amount if you have the amount you will get darker borders you see if this is your object
this is what you want to do if you're doing motion graphics.
There is no rule but if you're doing video editing maybe you stick to the lowest figures like 85 even
less so.
Me type 85 here.
That will be largely enough as you notice there is a bright center and the borders are a bit.
If you've got the words the negative numbers the vignette will invert color somehow and the borders
are lighter than the center.
So it's your choice.
You can also play with the angle of view that is like zooming in or out you know there's like zooming
in zooming out but keeping that in yet somehow very active.
I will reset this one right click and go to reset it reset it.
I would even reset the previous one.
There is also the center you can play with the center.
Just pull over here for example you change where the vignette center is.
OK something like this will be cool depending on what you're doing.
This is the first fact let's remove the visibility and lock this later.
Let's go back to the project panel we have so many soldiers now that I did here I did the mistake I
asked you not to do so.
I said one of them for example and press delete it does me.
This one is used in one composition.
I don't really see it.
This one didn't ask you the question because I didn't use it again.
I didn't use it.
And this one I didn't use it.
So you know this is how we get away with it.
Then maybe this one or this one is used.
So when you try to delete not as which one is used or not.
Nevertheless you can right click for example and you have here revealing camp and exactly we'll see
where it has been used.
So I would take the medium greatest cause and drop it above the other warm ups.
This one is not a full comp is it has a size.
If I come over and go to layer and choose the solid setting size is going to change the solid setting
or create a new solid.
Well I don't want to do that now.
I don't want to mess with this one.
I would take one that is you know fall and drop it just above.
So the next effect I would like to show you is the ramp effect and that's the reason we chose any color
here.
Click on the gradient ramp and drop it on the left you want to start now the gradient right is pretty
neat you know effect.
You have these start ramp which is usually over here.
This is where the ramp starts and you have the end ramp.
That's where it starts you notice.
So you have two colors here.
The first color the start color and the color which you can change the way you would like take the first
cut for example I make it some kind of yellowish something like this.
OK.
I'm not using nice color sorry guys.
And you of course you can't change the color palette so you can move these centers around.
OK.
So this is the gradient ramp and you create something quite beautiful over here.
You're going to have it in here or you can make it rigid the way you would like if I reset everything
and go back to radial.
You notice this is the start and put it in the middle.
OK.
And this is the.
And I'll just put it over here and you have a very nice radial working here.
Usually we want to swap colors and choose the black is too dark maybe to lighten it.
OK.
So now you have a very nice vignette using the gradient ramp.
Of course you can style the gradient up the way you would like.
So you learned a lot in this lecture and I hope you will practice them and your backgrounds now are
stable solid layers with some effect.
Thank you very much for listening.
Oh see you in the next lecture.