Hi guys and welcome to this new lecture in this lecture I want to talk about what we can do them what
are they for how we can use solitaires to create certain you know shapes custom shapes so that you create
your solid layer you come to layer and say new and say sadit the name of the story that is usually the
default color that you have chosen or the color you have chosen.
You see if I change color the name is changing.
So let's go for dark blue for example the width and height that is the size of your solid layer and
it's determined that from here this is the initial size you would say is usually the size of your composition.
Of course you can come and change it.
You don't get any size if you don't have anything definite in mind just make it composition size and
click OK.
That is what happened.
First of all in the project panel you have a folder called solids so aftereffects will group all your
solids all the cells that you have created just here.
So as long as you have one solid you can replicate this library and put it as a layer in all the compositions
that you have created and you can use it.
First of all as a background you can just block it.
And this is the background color of your composition.
It's a background color better then the color the background color of the composition itself because
you might want to render the composition as no background and then the background that you give in here
will not appear in the rendering you will see that later in the course.
But it is solid that will give you a better background with the same kind of colors in fact.
So now what do we have we have to transform and that's all we can use the five transformations.
So you can come and adjust your lair know give it the size that you want and it can be used as a background
for a section of the screen for example or just like a shape that you can move around and do whatever
you want.
It fun.
So now let's create another one.
Let's create another solid layer.
We come to new and we go solid and this timeless change colors.
Let's give it a yellow or something like this.
You know how the name is changing.
So now we have solid yellow or yellow solid and we click OK.
Now we have two of them.
Resize this one and now we have two.
So let's just show it.
No not this you create an another one in the sorted folder and it is put as a lead here.
Of course you can come and put another one here and resize it.
So actually it works as a layer but still is a single solid.
When you drop that solid it will cover the whole screen.
This is the initial size that you are getting given it is delete this one.
So the resizing every layer I have a single solid here for all the layers.
Let's say you want to change the color of the solid layer.
You select your layer you go to layer and say solid settings.
And in the solid settings you can change the color to anything you want.
That's perfect.
Do you notice how the colors are changing here.
Could you notice what's happening here.
Now there is here effect all layers that use this solid.
So you have two layers.
In fact like on this one.
I chose it and change the color too abrupt yellow.
You notice that the colors of the layers have changed.
If I take this one I will be changing the color of a single layer.
You know how we change.
Now also it's creating a new layer that's click OK for that and not just here we have a new not OK to
change the colors if you click OK if you remove is in you in the folder you have a new solid layer but
in the composition you just changed the color.
And of course it changed its name.
So this is about how to adjust your letters change the colors and also understand that solids are all
here.
Now what is good about it that this solid can work across all compositions.
Let's create a new composition with the same background.
Now we have come to if I take it up let's take the blue for example and put it here.
I can have deep blue over here if I change the color of the deep blue solid setting and I say affect
all colors so that's an ok and go to white.
For example you'll notice a change in this composition but also it has changed in this composition.
Of course this is the original size.
So this is very good because if you have it as a background for example if I said that this is the background
it will become the background for all your compositions.
This is very handy when you start doing early compositions.
We will learn that in the next section in fact.
So this is about the solid layers and how to adjust them let's deal as well.
Let's close this composition from here.
I don't like congestions and let's take only the yellow one and come back and we say is that in the
transform.
So it goes back to the original size that you have used to create it.
Now what I can do is this.
The first thing you do is say there is a background as we said the second one there are so many effects
and please add that you can use on top of the solid layer.
For example just to show you only know that if I go to generate it just to give you a glimpse of what
you do with solid layers if I go to fractal for example and I drop it here of course we see all about
pre-sets.
Now if you want a fractal background you can only put a solid layer and apply the effect on the solid
lead you can come and just affects the way you want.
Now you could the this fact go back to normal.
Now another use for solitaires which is somehow the most important you can use Musk's to create certain
shapes with solid layers.
First of all you have the protections that is a rectangle you create now a mask.
Now place in after effects there is shape players and there is a solid player with a mask.
So if you create a solid lead and put the mask please it looks like a shape but it doesn't behave like
a shape it behaves like a mask.
And so now you have a mask was a background color.
In fact it is very far from shape so please don't call it I created the shape.
You didn't create the shape.
You create a solid lair and you created a mask on the solid lair.
Now masks as we have seen have their own properties like the mask but he can come and you know adjust
the size of the mask you know.
Now I'm not playing with the solid lead.
I'm using the mask come click and start playing the corners to get your shape the way you wanted for
example.
Good.
Let's read this mosque.
And we go back to the original.
Of course you can use the other parametric tools such as the ellipse to create a circle or an ellipse
that you are now the most important here is when you may want to use the pen tool.
This is when the solid labs with the pen tool you can create very customizable shapes.
So I will choose my solitaire come to the pen to start creating or clicking to create the mask and of
course now I created this sort of shape that's very practical because I can make it the way I want.
This is my boat for example.
Nice boat.
And you can of course.
And he made it through the mask.
If you put my spot here you keyframe it.
And then you come after one second for exam you change the position of the nodes.
You now have an animation with a mask that's cool like this girl.
If you run your animation spacebar for example you have this shape changing or morphing to another shape.
So this is how you use the solid layers.
My greatest interest in this course I will not be using solid layers unless I'm using them as a background
for example if I were to do a background here for a lower So this series of lower thirds what I will
do is to come to layer a new solid layer just give it any size here change the color to something we
can see.
Then I will come and for example this becomes the background.
I would look at the background for text that is going to appear or something like this.
Or maybe other shapes that appeared here.
Now this is very useful and it's quite good.
You do not have to put a shape player here so you will use that sordidly.
So the concept of solidary is not about creating you know shapes not use the shapes themselves.
It is about creating backgrounds or certain sophisticated shapes that you want to create custom shapes.
Now the benefit of using a solid layer here will be to be able to use the mask for example let's put
the Maskaev.
And then I can use the furthering of the mosque.
Of course I can hug the farthing I can use the opacity.
OK.
And I have the mosque expansion like you have seen before.
So this is the way to do it.
And this is the way using solid layers.
I mean I would use a solid layer here to make this kind of shape or this kind of background if I want
to go.
Thank you very much for listening.
It has been a long lecture and I hope you have benefited now for the time being I will use most of the
time shapes and not masks to be able to create the shapes and I will use solid layers with or without
masks to create the background.
But of course think about it.
Layers for creating shapes and solid layers is for creating solids that will act as the background or
to apply effects.
Masks can mask the shapes the text and the solid layers.
That's all I have to tell you about the solid layers.
It was fun and I will see you in the next election.