Hi guys hope you're having a lot of fun in this cause and I hope you are learning all the techniques
the methods and everything you want to learn about aftereffects to become the animator you want to be.
Now also remember I'm here to guide you to become an expert animator in After Effects so please don't
hesitate.
Always ask all the questions that you want and believe me I I'm here to ensure that you're getting the
most benefit of discourse in this lecture.
We want to explore the track mats that affects how to use them and the simple techniques.
That's where we develop our skills during the course.
And please remember fragments are very important and very much used if you want to follow along with
me.
Please open the project essential reveals technique from the download.
You have done and we will work together.
You can come to the ultimate folder and open the ultimate composition which you can start working with
me.
It has the text and then later on you can look at the format final.
This is the one we are working on.
Track mud is a method in aftereffects that will allow you to create a mat to reveal or hide a layer
any kind of layer.
Now this is a simplistic explanation if you like what sonor format.
If you come to the color the color management you click on it you can see you have red green blue and
Alpha for example.
Click on the red it will show you in bright white what has arrived at 100 percent almost you notice
that here right.
You can read it in the info panel it is 225.
It means there is a full right.
If you cut the line here it says the red is 1 0 9.
It doesn't have much red and of course this one here has a lot of that you can change the channels and
you can find about the green.
Now what is green.
Not just the aftereffects is not so green.
Motion graphic is really not so green and you can read that from the ballot over there.
The green is a.
Now also you can check the alpha alpha.
Here is showing you what ever is in bright white.
If you point at it you know the alpha is 255.
Meaning is totally nontransparent.
If you could learn the shadow that Appert that is 1:29 is a bit transparent and so on.
So we need to create a null Matt So it has a lot of non-correspondent layers to hide or reveal the text.
Let's go back to RGV.
So that is the simplistic if you like explanation about the ultimate or the math you'll see that later
in the course we work on the math.
Now to work with the track mat.
You need to enable the expand collapse the transfer controls Pand.
So you have to plan here.
That is the mod will see it later and you have the track marked overhead.
So how do you create a month.
You not is that after effects is the first layer and it cannot have a mat.
There is no option for the math from the second layer on that is because null for smart or mud is applied
directly to the layer that is above code.
No that if you can to the rectangle tool here and you make sure the fill is bright white.
Ok that would make things easy and the file itself is at 100 percent.
This is important.
We click OK then you draw just a shape on top of the after effects.
As simple as this.
No need not just that after effects the text that you can apply the Blackmouth.
If I click you have several options here.
In fact you have two options with the inv..
There is Alfon not inverted Lamott and its Imbert.
Let's apply Alfar might not notice what happened here.
The text has appeared one to the sheer pleasure has been made invisible OK.
Yet you can still click and drag it.
OK I will undo that and a small can has appeared here.
It means this shape player is a mutt itself.
Let's roll it.
Then on the after effects the lead that you applied the ultimate to you have a small I can saying it
means this letter has been Alfar made by the top player.
Now what is it all about.
Remember this is our shape player is the size of the ship.
Let's go to after effects.
If you click and drag now your text that is only visible within the old format or within the Shipler
that is the concept or that if you put it outside it is not visible.
If you put it inside it is visible as simple as this.
That's cool right.
So now you can start working to reveal this text throughout an animation.
Also let's throw another square or rectangle on Martian graphics just like this.
OK.
Let's put it up a bit.
Let's put it just over here.
I can always DoubleClick before I apply the math and just make sure it's OK.
The size is good.
Let's take Shipler three and put it above motion graphics.
Then we come to the motion graphics here and you apply a refinement here to the same concept applies
the text layer motion graphics only is visible when it is inside the mat.
That's it as simple as this.
This create a very simple animation and we are going to animate the myriad layers that is motion graphics
and the after effects.
So PSP for position I'll come after half a second let's make it half a second year that will be 15 frames
OK.
And let's reduce the composition to 3 seconds you can right click here and say three complete work area.
It reduces the cap to the work area.
Here you are.
It became three seconds.
Now it's easier for us to work.
I will come for example to 15 frames like we said here you are.
And then our keyframe the position for both legs come to the beginning here select aftereffects and
just put it just under here as simple as this.
Then come to motion graphics here click on it and just put it on top here.
OK.
So they are now invisible.
If you animate they're going to go inside the mat and appear as simple as this.
So this method is extremely efficient to make your text appear automake reveals.
But yet it has other uses in after effects that we work on later on in the course.
So actually this is how it works you create a layer on top of the layer you want to map out and then
you apply al-Ahmad and then the ship lead that you motet here will be only visible when it is under
the ledge above.
In our case we have used a rectangle.
You can use a video you can use another text layer you can use almost anything that you can put on top
of the layout you want to might.
Thank you very much for listening.
I hope this was very useful.
Actually it's wonderful.
And we go on to learn more about the ultimate.