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Hi guys.



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And welcome to see two thousand eighteen Abed's in aftereffects.



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There is one of them that is really tremendously helpful and I encourage you to learn it and start using



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it.



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It will change the way we used to use mask and path actually is extremely powerful for certain animations.



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My aim in this section is to explain to you how it works.



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The concept and I will add a few simple examples later on we can expand on these examples and use it



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with your videos with a lot of motion graphics and can do power for motion graphics.



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Believe me.



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So let's create a new composition in 2018 and click on new camp in the middle and let's keep it compline



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we don't care 12:18 by 720 is OK for the course but you can come and choose whatever you like.



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Let's create our comp within the comp I will choose a rectangle.



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But I would create a busy path a rectangle.



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Here you are.



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So make sure the path is select.



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I would draw just a simple thing.



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Now within the rectangle you know very well that is path 1 and there is path.



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This is because it's a busy.



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I'm sure that at this stage of this course you already know how to animate the path itself.



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You click on the stopwatch to start the animation come after some time whatever it use your selection



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to shift to click on the path and then you can start moving the points.



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I'm going to call them points from now on because this is what I do.



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After Effects started calling them and not vertex or vertices.



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So you can change the point as you said for example something like this.



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And then you have an animation with the mask.



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Pretty cool pretty fine.



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Very tedious to me.



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On a 10 or 20 seconds.



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I would read the keyframes here.



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Go back to the original.



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Now I will select the busy path to use the new feature or do you go to window and at the bottom here



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you will find create nulls from path that GSX.



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So it's not an effect.



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If you click on it and the panel create nulls from path it will appear.



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Actually it will be a floating panel.



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I just put it on the site.



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It has three options here.



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Point follow Nona's.



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So these are the points and surely some nulls are going to be created nulls.



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Follow the points or trace path.



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Let's focus in this lecture on points.



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Follow nuts now.



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First of all you need to select your path.



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If you select only or later and you go points for nulls it will give you an error.



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So you need to select a path.



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Here you are.



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I will go point for on nulls and then for nulls have been created connected to the corners.



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Let's change the color here.



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Let's give it for example something yellow we can see them yes.



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I will unselect.



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Now you have 4 nulls here that are connected to every point of the path.



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So now if you click on one NULL for example and start moving it you'll notice that the point is moving



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with the null.



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This is pretty awesome.



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I'm sure you already have a lot of ideas how you're going to use it and for what you are.



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I will all this let's create a very simple animation of course to the point you will be animating the



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nulls themselves.



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Select all of them before position.



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Here you are then come after some time here and just select one of them move it.



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You notice you have a motion path which is pretty cool.



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OK I'll move it and not.



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I have a motion pass here and another one here.



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Very very efficient.



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And now I don't care about you know how the path is and keyframe it all along the way.



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In fact you got one single simple animation with very little work.



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So animated now a busy shape or a path has become very easy.



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This is the concept of appointer follow nod's meaning it will create the nuts for you and you can make



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the nuts.



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That's very fun.



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Then select all of them here and just lead everything.



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Now let's go to the pen tool and that's going to be interesting if you draw a path.



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Here you are with the pen tool.



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Let's bring this one here.



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And this one like this.



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Now I will select the shape that this is of course a busy shape that inside shape once you have a path



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one and have other path I say points follow the path.



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Here you are.



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I don't know why is creating with this colored JELAS from my shape and I would change the color here



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too.



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I don't know Lavander this time.



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That's better.



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So now you have the full knowledge and you are able using position for example you will be able to animate



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each and every one of them in the next lecture.



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I will give you a very nice example to do line graphs.



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I'll see you then.