Welcome guys and I'm very excited to work with you on the spotlight it's an effect that will give you
lots of variations and you can create very nice lights and spotlights and even transition with it.
So open after effects with me please.
And let's work together.
I would like you also to play with it.
It's easy it's simple but yet the number of possibilities and the variations make it very interesting.
Let's start we are going to use a Las Vegas video for the spotlight just Las Vegas and drop it on the
Create Champa to have our new competition.
Let's take spotlight now and drop it on the video itself.
First you want to notice what did the spotlight do to your video so it has darkened all the video except
one part that looks like a novel or somehow an ellipse.
Let's look at the controls a bit.
We have the From which is the start point of your spotlight.
If you look carefully here you will find it over here.
If you click on it and drag you will notice that you change where the light is coming from.
You also have the two if you just grab it now you will notice that it's moving.
Usually it's mixed with the anchor point but after that you can hold it and just drag it around to move
your light or your spotlight anywhere you want.
You notice that the light is always coming from the from and heading toward the two.
This is very important because this is what you are going to meet.
But there is something else.
If you reduce the distance from the from the two then your spotlight will become almost a circle.
If you increase the distance then your spotlight will start opening up and becoming like is almost a
cone.
This is the front end to control that you can play with it you get your light to move around.
Now you know this is pretty realistic if a light is coming from here and it's putting just in front
is going to be a circle.
But if it's putting very far then it's going to look like a cone.
And supposing somehow intensity.
Now you have here in the control is the height the height you could say is the distance between the
front and the two.
It's not really 50 but you can just imagine if you put it to zero you'll notice how the cone is connecting
the light to its source the From.
So now that's very interesting because it looks like the light is rotating around the two.
So if you move it it's rotating around the from or is rotating around the two.
So you have a cone here.
Almost If you increase the height to do its maximum that's 100.
It will become like just a circle or a novel but still we'll be taking in consideration how far the
light is from its source and becoming like a cone.
It's like you have a flashlight in your hand.
If you take it far it will open up the light spread it more if you take it.
Here is just the spotlight in front of you.
And there is the angle I want to put the height to zero.
So you really notice the cone angle.
If you take the cone angle to zero you don't have a cone it's just close.
If you open it you have a very nice cone.
Now opening up you know what's happening this is very nice to make an opening for example besides having
the spotlight.
So if you hike the height a bit and you play with a cone you know is what's happening it's opening up.
So actually you need to visualize all this you need to understand how it's work you need to come to
aftereffects and play with the spotlight because it's really amazing.
For example this is a very nice animation already.
If you come from over here and your light goes like this something like this is really pretty nice you
can come and play with it and create an image.
Now you have the edge softness if you take it to zero it becomes very sharp.
Of course if you take it to its maximum which I think is 100 percent it becomes very blurred.
Still very interesting to highlight certain areas in your video or on the layer that might require to
be highlighted.
Let's take it back.
For example I don't remember last resort.
Now there is intensity.
That is exactly what we have here.
The intensity is in direct relation with the light shadow.
If you turn down a light shadow you have light only light and you have jail and so on.
Let's take the intensity to its maximum and that is what's happening when the light is in tens.
It means everything else will become dark except where your light is.
So if you take down the height that's what's happening.
It now you have only the corn that you can see.
This is pretty interesting.
And already you can create an animation here that will open for example your video.
Come over here turn it down.
And then when you are over here just maybe here you open the corn and you have a nice opening if you
like to of course.
This should be outside.
Where is it.
Now we have work with the light Chad.
So this is the effect of the light shadow with the intensity.
Only see what's inside the light.
Pretty useful and pretty nice even when you're working with 3-D.
So now we have explored all the controls including intensity and what ever is going to be rendered what
we are going to see depends on the render.
In our case now it has been only like shadow.
This is the default.
But you also have a light only light that light at plus that we will see in the next lecture and we
see how to work with them.
Thank you very much.
I'll see you in the next.