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Hi guys and welcome to this new lecture in this lecture I want to talk about what we can do them what



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are they for how we can use solitaires to create certain you know shapes custom shapes so that you create



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your solid layer you come to layer and say new and say sadit the name of the story that is usually the



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default color that you have chosen or the color you have chosen.



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You see if I change color the name is changing.



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So let's go for dark blue for example the width and height that is the size of your solid layer and



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it's determined that from here this is the initial size you would say is usually the size of your composition.



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Of course you can come and change it.



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You don't get any size if you don't have anything definite in mind just make it composition size and



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click OK.



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That is what happened.



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First of all in the project panel you have a folder called solids so aftereffects will group all your



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solids all the cells that you have created just here.



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So as long as you have one solid you can replicate this library and put it as a layer in all the compositions



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that you have created and you can use it.



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First of all as a background you can just block it.



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And this is the background color of your composition.



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It's a background color better then the color the background color of the composition itself because



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you might want to render the composition as no background and then the background that you give in here



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will not appear in the rendering you will see that later in the course.



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But it is solid that will give you a better background with the same kind of colors in fact.



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So now what do we have we have to transform and that's all we can use the five transformations.



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So you can come and adjust your lair know give it the size that you want and it can be used as a background



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for a section of the screen for example or just like a shape that you can move around and do whatever



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you want.



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It fun.



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So now let's create another one.



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Let's create another solid layer.



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We come to new and we go solid and this timeless change colors.



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Let's give it a yellow or something like this.



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You know how the name is changing.



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So now we have solid yellow or yellow solid and we click OK.



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Now we have two of them.



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Resize this one and now we have two.



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So let's just show it.



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No not this you create an another one in the sorted folder and it is put as a lead here.



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Of course you can come and put another one here and resize it.



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So actually it works as a layer but still is a single solid.



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When you drop that solid it will cover the whole screen.



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This is the initial size that you are getting given it is delete this one.



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So the resizing every layer I have a single solid here for all the layers.



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Let's say you want to change the color of the solid layer.



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You select your layer you go to layer and say solid settings.



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And in the solid settings you can change the color to anything you want.



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That's perfect.



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Do you notice how the colors are changing here.



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Could you notice what's happening here.



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Now there is here effect all layers that use this solid.



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So you have two layers.



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In fact like on this one.



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I chose it and change the color too abrupt yellow.



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You notice that the colors of the layers have changed.



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If I take this one I will be changing the color of a single layer.



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You know how we change.



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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



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change the colors if you click OK if you remove is in you in the folder you have a new solid layer but



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in the composition you just changed the color.



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And of course it changed its name.



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So this is about how to adjust your letters change the colors and also understand that solids are all



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here.



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Now what is good about it that this solid can work across all compositions.



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Let's create a new composition with the same background.



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Now we have come to if I take it up let's take the blue for example and put it here.



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I can have deep blue over here if I change the color of the deep blue solid setting and I say affect



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all colors so that's an ok and go to white.



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For example you'll notice a change in this composition but also it has changed in this composition.



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Of course this is the original size.



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So this is very good because if you have it as a background for example if I said that this is the background



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it will become the background for all your compositions.



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This is very handy when you start doing early compositions.



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We will learn that in the next section in fact.



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So this is about the solid layers and how to adjust them let's deal as well.



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Let's close this composition from here.



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I don't like congestions and let's take only the yellow one and come back and we say is that in the



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transform.



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So it goes back to the original size that you have used to create it.



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Now what I can do is this.



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The first thing you do is say there is a background as we said the second one there are so many effects



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and please add that you can use on top of the solid layer.



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For example just to show you only know that if I go to generate it just to give you a glimpse of what



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you do with solid layers if I go to fractal for example and I drop it here of course we see all about



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pre-sets.



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Now if you want a fractal background you can only put a solid layer and apply the effect on the solid



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lead you can come and just affects the way you want.



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Now you could the this fact go back to normal.



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Now another use for solitaires which is somehow the most important you can use Musk's to create certain



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shapes with solid layers.



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First of all you have the protections that is a rectangle you create now a mask.



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Now place in after effects there is shape players and there is a solid player with a mask.



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So if you create a solid lead and put the mask please it looks like a shape but it doesn't behave like



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a shape it behaves like a mask.



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And so now you have a mask was a background color.



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In fact it is very far from shape so please don't call it I created the shape.



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You didn't create the shape.



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You create a solid lair and you created a mask on the solid lair.



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Now masks as we have seen have their own properties like the mask but he can come and you know adjust



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the size of the mask you know.



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Now I'm not playing with the solid lead.



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I'm using the mask come click and start playing the corners to get your shape the way you wanted for



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example.



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Good.



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Let's read this mosque.



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And we go back to the original.



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Of course you can use the other parametric tools such as the ellipse to create a circle or an ellipse



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that you are now the most important here is when you may want to use the pen tool.



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This is when the solid labs with the pen tool you can create very customizable shapes.



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So I will choose my solitaire come to the pen to start creating or clicking to create the mask and of



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course now I created this sort of shape that's very practical because I can make it the way I want.



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This is my boat for example.



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Nice boat.



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And you can of course.



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And he made it through the mask.



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If you put my spot here you keyframe it.



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And then you come after one second for exam you change the position of the nodes.



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You now have an animation with a mask that's cool like this girl.



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If you run your animation spacebar for example you have this shape changing or morphing to another shape.



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So this is how you use the solid layers.



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My greatest interest in this course I will not be using solid layers unless I'm using them as a background



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for example if I were to do a background here for a lower So this series of lower thirds what I will



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do is to come to layer a new solid layer just give it any size here change the color to something we



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can see.



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Then I will come and for example this becomes the background.



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I would look at the background for text that is going to appear or something like this.



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Or maybe other shapes that appeared here.



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Now this is very useful and it's quite good.



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You do not have to put a shape player here so you will use that sordidly.



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So the concept of solidary is not about creating you know shapes not use the shapes themselves.



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It is about creating backgrounds or certain sophisticated shapes that you want to create custom shapes.



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Now the benefit of using a solid layer here will be to be able to use the mask for example let's put



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the Maskaev.



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And then I can use the furthering of the mosque.



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Of course I can hug the farthing I can use the opacity.



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OK.



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And I have the mosque expansion like you have seen before.



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So this is the way to do it.



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And this is the way using solid layers.



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I mean I would use a solid layer here to make this kind of shape or this kind of background if I want



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to go.



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Thank you very much for listening.



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It has been a long lecture and I hope you have benefited now for the time being I will use most of the



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time shapes and not masks to be able to create the shapes and I will use solid layers with or without



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masks to create the background.



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But of course think about it.



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Layers for creating shapes and solid layers is for creating solids that will act as the background or



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to apply effects.



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Masks can mask the shapes the text and the solid layers.



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That's all I have to tell you about the solid layers.



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It was fun and I will see you in the next election.