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In this first lecture we gonna start step by step.

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We are going to open a logo that I file and look at it then go to aftereffects and important say exactly

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how things happen.

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We are not going to manipulate the file in is it.

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So please I hope you download the assets from the previous lecture and now it's time to open the logo.

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Click on Open in Illustrator.

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I hope you have launched it OK and you have the first one is a logo.

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So we just open it in Illustrator.

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Now if you look at this file here it's quite nice.

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We want to animate the logo we want to change the text by something significant not here in aftereffects.

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The only thing you need to have is layers.

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If you don't have layers here you can come to Windows I think.

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And you make sure that layers is checked or use the f7 shortcut.

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Here you are this file is done by a graphic designer and not by me at all.

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It has a layer one and inside this that you have two groups.

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OK guys so the most we are going to do here is to click right click we are not going to draw anything.

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So you have layer one inside layer one there is a group inside this group that is the first text that

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is logo text.

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If you notice if you select from here that is your tag line and you have the logo text also here you

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are and of course you have another group that has all the designs you have path on top and bottom.

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You have the Pye's here that all path over it.

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So the name of our file is a logo not a.

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Let's go now to after effects and bring in this fight.

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I was switched to aftereffects and here to import the file you all know you're right click and say import

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and you go to file.

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Of course I want to import logo.

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Notice that it's still open in a but not locked.

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So it's really pretty cool to work on the file.

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I then import the after effects go back work and import again and stories like this.

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The only thing I would like you to notice here that you have import us and you have footage composition

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retained laicized and only a comp.

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Now in our case here I wanted to import as a composition retain layer size OK.

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In fact that's the option that I recommend that you always use.

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Forget about the other options for now and you click Import here you are.

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Not what happened here.

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A logo layered a folder has been created if you create that you will have only one single vector file

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here.

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That is the logo dot.

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And also a composition has been created.

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If I doubleclick on the camp to open it I have a single layer here.

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If you notice that is a logo.

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But now why is that.

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Why do we have a single layer.

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Remember in Illustrator we had one single layer.

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Let's go back to illustrator and you know this I had one single layer containing everything and that's

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exactly what happened in after effects it has imported a single layer in your composition become an

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innate desire if you like you can scale it up and down stories like this and it's just one block.

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You cannot change the text or song but there is a way now to turn everything into shape players to animate

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them.

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It's crazy by the way you click on your letter.

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You right click and you go create shapes from Vector layer.

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So it's already ready for you.

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I would click on not just what happened.

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The wording does appear the text has disappeared why it was text plain text in Illustrator so in after

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effects it cannot be rendered into shapes.

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Of course if you look at the logo outline here and we turn it down and tore down the content you have

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group one group to group three four five and six units what's happening here.

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So every group in Illustrator if you look at the layer here you will find you have the groups and every

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group has been turned into a group in after effects guys.

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Now this is pretty practical.

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You can start animating the groups if you open for example Group 1 which is the lower curve.

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Over here you have the path you are and you have it's fill.

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You can come and change its color.

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For example let's zoom in and the fill here you can come and change the color to right for example whatever

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you would like.

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So now you are ready to start animating But of course you lost that text.

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This is one way to deal with vector files.

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So now we had one layer in Illustrator.

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We brought it over here and then we converted to create shapes from Vector labs and inside the shape

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player a single chair player.

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We have now lots of groups or many groups.

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This is a file that has been very well organized and you can start animating each group.

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And of course if we'd like to copy paste you can create several layers in the next lecture.

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I would was a better method of organizing the data file.

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So it's imported in several layers and ready to be an image.

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See you then.