1 00:00:00,450 --> 00:00:08,240 Welcome guys and I'm very excited to work with you on the spotlight it's an effect that will give you 2 00:00:08,260 --> 00:00:15,080 lots of variations and you can create very nice lights and spotlights and even transition with it. 3 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:17,430 So open after effects with me please. 4 00:00:17,470 --> 00:00:19,260 And let's work together. 5 00:00:19,260 --> 00:00:21,180 I would like you also to play with it. 6 00:00:21,180 --> 00:00:28,370 It's easy it's simple but yet the number of possibilities and the variations make it very interesting. 7 00:00:28,380 --> 00:00:36,600 Let's start we are going to use a Las Vegas video for the spotlight just Las Vegas and drop it on the 8 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:39,450 Create Champa to have our new competition. 9 00:00:39,450 --> 00:00:43,030 Let's take spotlight now and drop it on the video itself. 10 00:00:43,290 --> 00:00:51,660 First you want to notice what did the spotlight do to your video so it has darkened all the video except 11 00:00:52,020 --> 00:00:56,580 one part that looks like a novel or somehow an ellipse. 12 00:00:56,580 --> 00:00:58,520 Let's look at the controls a bit. 13 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:05,120 We have the From which is the start point of your spotlight. 14 00:01:05,220 --> 00:01:07,860 If you look carefully here you will find it over here. 15 00:01:07,860 --> 00:01:14,270 If you click on it and drag you will notice that you change where the light is coming from. 16 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:19,320 You also have the two if you just grab it now you will notice that it's moving. 17 00:01:19,320 --> 00:01:26,040 Usually it's mixed with the anchor point but after that you can hold it and just drag it around to move 18 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:29,190 your light or your spotlight anywhere you want. 19 00:01:29,190 --> 00:01:35,390 You notice that the light is always coming from the from and heading toward the two. 20 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:38,860 This is very important because this is what you are going to meet. 21 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:40,750 But there is something else. 22 00:01:40,950 --> 00:01:48,180 If you reduce the distance from the from the two then your spotlight will become almost a circle. 23 00:01:48,450 --> 00:01:55,470 If you increase the distance then your spotlight will start opening up and becoming like is almost a 24 00:01:55,470 --> 00:01:56,330 cone. 25 00:01:56,340 --> 00:02:01,600 This is the front end to control that you can play with it you get your light to move around. 26 00:02:01,620 --> 00:02:07,170 Now you know this is pretty realistic if a light is coming from here and it's putting just in front 27 00:02:07,170 --> 00:02:08,340 is going to be a circle. 28 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:12,890 But if it's putting very far then it's going to look like a cone. 29 00:02:12,900 --> 00:02:15,370 And supposing somehow intensity. 30 00:02:15,630 --> 00:02:21,360 Now you have here in the control is the height the height you could say is the distance between the 31 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:22,650 front and the two. 32 00:02:22,710 --> 00:02:30,780 It's not really 50 but you can just imagine if you put it to zero you'll notice how the cone is connecting 33 00:02:30,870 --> 00:02:33,770 the light to its source the From. 34 00:02:33,870 --> 00:02:41,170 So now that's very interesting because it looks like the light is rotating around the two. 35 00:02:41,190 --> 00:02:47,370 So if you move it it's rotating around the from or is rotating around the two. 36 00:02:47,370 --> 00:02:48,560 So you have a cone here. 37 00:02:48,570 --> 00:02:53,690 Almost If you increase the height to do its maximum that's 100. 38 00:02:53,820 --> 00:03:01,650 It will become like just a circle or a novel but still we'll be taking in consideration how far the 39 00:03:01,650 --> 00:03:05,610 light is from its source and becoming like a cone. 40 00:03:05,610 --> 00:03:07,880 It's like you have a flashlight in your hand. 41 00:03:07,980 --> 00:03:12,450 If you take it far it will open up the light spread it more if you take it. 42 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:15,660 Here is just the spotlight in front of you. 43 00:03:16,140 --> 00:03:20,750 And there is the angle I want to put the height to zero. 44 00:03:21,030 --> 00:03:23,120 So you really notice the cone angle. 45 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:28,360 If you take the cone angle to zero you don't have a cone it's just close. 46 00:03:28,410 --> 00:03:31,530 If you open it you have a very nice cone. 47 00:03:31,530 --> 00:03:37,470 Now opening up you know what's happening this is very nice to make an opening for example besides having 48 00:03:37,470 --> 00:03:38,580 the spotlight. 49 00:03:38,580 --> 00:03:46,170 So if you hike the height a bit and you play with a cone you know is what's happening it's opening up. 50 00:03:46,170 --> 00:03:50,940 So actually you need to visualize all this you need to understand how it's work you need to come to 51 00:03:51,020 --> 00:03:54,970 aftereffects and play with the spotlight because it's really amazing. 52 00:03:54,990 --> 00:03:57,850 For example this is a very nice animation already. 53 00:03:58,070 --> 00:04:04,200 If you come from over here and your light goes like this something like this is really pretty nice you 54 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:07,190 can come and play with it and create an image. 55 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:12,510 Now you have the edge softness if you take it to zero it becomes very sharp. 56 00:04:12,570 --> 00:04:18,160 Of course if you take it to its maximum which I think is 100 percent it becomes very blurred. 57 00:04:18,370 --> 00:04:24,600 Still very interesting to highlight certain areas in your video or on the layer that might require to 58 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:26,400 be highlighted. 59 00:04:26,460 --> 00:04:27,270 Let's take it back. 60 00:04:27,270 --> 00:04:30,080 For example I don't remember last resort. 61 00:04:30,270 --> 00:04:31,950 Now there is intensity. 62 00:04:32,010 --> 00:04:34,060 That is exactly what we have here. 63 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:38,170 The intensity is in direct relation with the light shadow. 64 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:43,570 If you turn down a light shadow you have light only light and you have jail and so on. 65 00:04:44,010 --> 00:04:50,310 Let's take the intensity to its maximum and that is what's happening when the light is in tens. 66 00:04:50,310 --> 00:04:55,630 It means everything else will become dark except where your light is. 67 00:04:55,650 --> 00:04:59,540 So if you take down the height that's what's happening. 68 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:02,550 It now you have only the corn that you can see. 69 00:05:02,550 --> 00:05:03,840 This is pretty interesting. 70 00:05:03,840 --> 00:05:08,940 And already you can create an animation here that will open for example your video. 71 00:05:08,940 --> 00:05:11,330 Come over here turn it down. 72 00:05:11,340 --> 00:05:17,910 And then when you are over here just maybe here you open the corn and you have a nice opening if you 73 00:05:17,910 --> 00:05:18,850 like to of course. 74 00:05:18,870 --> 00:05:20,340 This should be outside. 75 00:05:20,630 --> 00:05:21,310 Where is it. 76 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:23,920 Now we have work with the light Chad. 77 00:05:24,270 --> 00:05:27,600 So this is the effect of the light shadow with the intensity. 78 00:05:27,620 --> 00:05:29,820 Only see what's inside the light. 79 00:05:29,940 --> 00:05:33,140 Pretty useful and pretty nice even when you're working with 3-D. 80 00:05:33,300 --> 00:05:40,320 So now we have explored all the controls including intensity and what ever is going to be rendered what 81 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:43,040 we are going to see depends on the render. 82 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:45,890 In our case now it has been only like shadow. 83 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:46,970 This is the default. 84 00:05:46,980 --> 00:05:53,040 But you also have a light only light that light at plus that we will see in the next lecture and we 85 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:54,500 see how to work with them. 86 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:55,590 Thank you very much. 87 00:05:55,590 --> 00:05:56,380 I'll see you in the next.