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hello and welcome to getting started
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with a light motion in this video you'll
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see just how easy it is to make
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impressive eye-catching animations on
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your phone we'll show you how to animate
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the basic layer types and how to use
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effects and shadows to add polish to
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your projects by the end of the tutorial
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you'll be able to recreate everything
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you see here in this example nature
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you'll see that when it comes to working
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with layers in a light motion there are
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three simple steps add adjust and
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animate for example We'll add the
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snowflake adjust its color and timing
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and animate it with keyframes and then
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we'll simply repeat the process for the
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other elements in the video so here we
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start a new project by tapping the new
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project button go ahead and give your
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project a super cool name don't worry
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you can always change it later
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a light motion supports a variety of
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aspect ratios resolutions and frame
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rates for this project we want to use
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the 4x5 aspect ratio why it's great for
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General Social content especially
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Instagram posts next set the resolution
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to 1080P and the frame rate to 30 frames
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per second check that the background
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color is light gray and tap create
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this is the editing screen let's take a
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quick tour of the main parts the
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navigation bar is at the top and that's
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where you can change the project title
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adjust settings and share your project
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then you have the preview of your
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project below the preview you'll find
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the control bar and below that is the
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timeline which includes the playhead
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indicating the current preview and edit
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the playhead is currently at zero
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seconds zero frames because the project
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is empty finally at the bottom of the
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screen is the add layer button which
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opens the add layer panel from this
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panel you can add a variety of layers to
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your project the tabs provide access to
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shapes media audio objects such as
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cameras and elements and you can also
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directly add freehand drawings vector
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drawings and text layers to close the
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add layer panel just tap anywhere
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outside of it before you start working
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on the project take notes of the undo
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and redo buttons they'll come in handy
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in case you make a mistake
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let's add our snowflake this is one of
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the built-in shapes in a light motion so
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just tap the add layer button and the
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add layer panel will open with the
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shapes tab already selected just swipe
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right and tap the snowflake to add it to
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the project timeline
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newly added layers are automatically
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selected but let's take a quick look at
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how to select and deselect layers to
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deselect a layer tap in the preview or
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on an empty part of the timeline to
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select a layer tap it or its thumbnail
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on the timeline or tap the layer in the
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preview you can also swipe your finger
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across the preview onto the layer you
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want is highlighted in red then lift
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your finger to select it when the
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snowflake layer is selected it'll have a
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white outline to move a selected layer
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swipe anywhere on the preview
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some shapes in the shapes browser like
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this snowflake are actually vector
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drawings while they're selected you can
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tap edit points to move or animate each
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point individually
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some shapes have handles you can drag to
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intelligently control their features you
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can also adjust them in the edit shape
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let's adjust the snowflake by changing
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the color the scale and the layer timing
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and duration first let's change the
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color make sure the snowflake layer is
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selected then tap color and fill you can
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change the color by selecting it from
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the palette picking it from the screen
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with the eyedropper or using one of the
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color Pickers whatever works for you
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adjust the snowflake scale by tapping
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the layer to select it and then by
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tapping on move and transform this panel
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is where you can adjust or animate the
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scale of a layer as well as its position
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pivot rotation and skew go ahead and tap
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on the scale button then swipe on the
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slider to make the snowflake roughly the
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size shown on screen
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in the example project we're creating
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the snowflake layer starts at the half
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second Mark and ends at the three second
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Mark so here's how to do that we can
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control the time when the snowflake
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appears by moving the layer on the
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timeline one way to do this is to long
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press the layer in the timeline and drag
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it we want it to appear a half second
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after the start of the animation so drag
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the layer to the 15 frames mark because
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we gave the project a frame rate of 30
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frames per second 15 frames are exactly
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half a second a layer disappears when it
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ends on the timeline adjust this by
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dragging the handle at the right hand
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end of the layer that appears when the
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layer is selected let's make the layer
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end at the three second Mark giving it a
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total duration of two and a half seconds
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so now our snowflake is the right size
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and color it appears at the right time
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and it has the right duration so far so
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now that you've made the basic
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adjustments to the snowflake it's time
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to animate here's what the end result
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will look like see how the snowflake
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rotates as it grows from a point and
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then slides up to make room for the text
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but before we dive into how to do this
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here's a quick overview of animating
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with keyframes keyframes are the most
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important Concept in animating with a
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light motion keyframes appear as white
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diamonds on layers in the timeline
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in traditional animation animators draw
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the most importance or the key frames of
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an animation and then draw each
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transitional frame by hand this process
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is called tweening and luckily a light
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motion does it automatically just tell
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the light motion what a layer should be
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doing at importance or key points in
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time and it will calculate and generate
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the intermediate frames let's see this
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in action as we work with the rotation
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scale and position animations one at a
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first let's take care of the rotation
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animation select the snowflake layer tap
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move and transform and then tap the
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rotation icon
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scroll the timeline so the playhead is
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at the 15 frames Mark which is the first
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frame of the layer and then tap the add
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keyframe button a white diamond will
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appear on the layer at the current time
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and just like that you've added a
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keyframe this one tells a light motion
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to give the snowflake layer a rotation
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value of 0 degrees at the 15 frames Mark
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now scroll to the one second Mark where
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we want the rotation to end and set the
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value to 180 degrees at this point
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you've probably noticed a few things
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first a new keyframe has appeared on the
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timeline that's because a light motion
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automatically adds a new keyframe
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anytime you change the property for
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example rotation
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as long as that property already has at
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least one keyframe on the timeline and
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second you'll see that the keyframe is
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highlighted in green which means it's
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selected and you can adjust its values
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scrolling the timelines of the playhead
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is at the same time as the keyframe will
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select the keyframe causing it to be
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highlighted in green
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let's take a look at your animation so
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scroll to the beginning of the timeline
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then tap the play button look at that
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spin another way to quickly get to the
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beginning or the end of the timeline or
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selected layer is by using the skip
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with these buttons you can also jump to
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the nearest keyframe or to a bookmark on
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the timeline
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if you want to add or remove a bookmark
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simply tap the top of the playhead
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now that you've made this snowflake spin
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it's time to make it grow
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to the one second mark on the timeline
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then open move and transform and tap the
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you'll notice that the rotation
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keyframes on the layer become faint as
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we work on a different property that's
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because each property has its own
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keyframe or set of keyframes which means
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a layer can have lots of different
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animations happening at once so the goal
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is to animate the snowflake so it grows
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from a tiny point to its current size
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the easiest way to do this is by adding
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the final scale keyframe first at the
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one second mark
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then scroll back to the 15 frames Mark
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and swipe the scale spinner to zero
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if you see two spinners instead of one
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it means you're resizing horizontally
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and vertically separately in that case
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just tap this link icon to switch so
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you're resizing them together you now
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have two scale keyframes on the layer in
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addition to the rotation keyframes so
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when you play back the animation you'll
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see the snowflake simultaneously growing
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and spinning cool right
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now it's time to make the snowflake move
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upward to create room for the text to do
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this tap on the position icon you can do
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two things with the position property
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edit the position of the layer or edit
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its pivot point in case you accidentally
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switch to Pivot Point editing mode just
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tap on the position icon again
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scroll the timeline to the one second
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Mark and add a keyframe for the start of
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the position animation then move to the
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two second Mark and swipe the control
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pad upward to move the layer up
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the exact value doesn't matter as you
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can adjust it when you add the text
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there should now be a second position
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keyframe on the timeline
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this is a good time to point out that
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when you're creating or editing position
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animations and move and transform you
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need to move the layer with the control
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pad rather than by swiping in the
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preview here's why moving a layer with
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the control pad adds new keyframes or
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modifies existing keyframes if they're
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highlighted while moving a layer by
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swiping in the preview moves all of the
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position keyframes at once so if you
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don't see two position keyframes and
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Alignment the snowflake layer is
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selected it's probably because you move
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the layer with the preview in this case
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simply put that undo button to good use
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and try again using the control pad
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with the position keyframe set you've
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added all the keyframes needed to
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animate your Snowflake and now we can
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have some fun playing around with the
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motion to make it more natural
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take a second to play your whole project
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back notice how the motion looks a bit
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jerky in real life objects tend to
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change velocity gradually continuously
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speeding up and slowing down rather than
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moving at a constant rate in animation
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this kind of natural gradual change of
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speed is called easy and it's easy to
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apply it to any keyframe animation in a
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light motion
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let's start with the rotation animation
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where the snowflake layer selected tap
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move and transform and then the rotation
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icon from there tap the easing button in
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the easing panel you'll see a green line
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with two handles if you don't see the
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line make sure to scroll the timeline so
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the playhead is between the two rotation
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keyframes you can select the easing type
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on the right side of the panel for this
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project leave it set to the option at
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this is called an easing curve and it
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controls the progression of an animation
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between two keyframes of the same
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property each pair of adjacent keyframes
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has a separate curve the horizontal axis
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represents the time between the two
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keyframes and the vertical axis
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represents the amount of progress
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between the two keyframe values the
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dotted vertical line helps you visualize
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the current playhead position relative
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to the surrounding keyframes a straight
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line indicates linear easing a constant
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rate of change between two keyframes but
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you want the snowflake layer to move
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smoothly by starting slow speeding up
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and then slowing down again at the end
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of the animation
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to create this natural motion manually
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drag the handles or select the
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ready-made ease in ease out curve
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in easing curves more vertical slopes
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indicate that the animation will
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progress more quickly
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and more horizontal slopes more slowly
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as you see the curve we've created
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starts horizontal then becomes vertical
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and then horizontal again as it goes
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towards the right this means the layer
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will start moving slowly speed up and
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then gradually slow down and come to
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the effect of the changes to the curve
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can be seen in the preview in real time
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go ahead and set the easing for all the
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animations in the move and transform
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panel tap position move the playhead
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between the two keyframes tap easing and
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then set the curve to ease in and ease
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out of the animation then do the same
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for the scale keyframes when you play
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the animation Back see how much smoother
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and more natural it now looks you may
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want to make some more small adjustments
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later but your snowflake is basically
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let's move on to adding adjusting and
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animating text
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the example project we're creating
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contains two text layers understanding
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and nature let's start by adding the
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nature text layer
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scroll to the one second five frames
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Mark making sure you don't have any
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layer selected tap the add layer button
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then tap text to add an empty text layer
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go ahead and type nature in the text box
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then you can change the font by tapping
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the current font name then view all
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fonts make sure none of the categories
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in the side menu are selected use the
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search button to find Barlow then select
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to finish set the font size so it fits
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well on the screen set the alignment to
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Center and then set the color to white
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tap the check mark to finish editing
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let's now animate our nature text layer
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this layer slides in from off screen and
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also fades in over time let's start with
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a sliding animation which should last
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one second so go to the two seconds five
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frames Mark tap move and transform and
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add a position keyframe next scroll to
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the one second five frames Mark and
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swipe on the control pads and move the
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layer off screen to the right
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remember that swiping on the control pad
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adds a keyframe there's also snapping to
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ensure you're moving perfectly
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horizontally you'll see a line appear
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and feel a bump now we want to smooth
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out the animation with easing just like
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we did with the snowflake layer
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with the playhead between the two
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position keyframes tap the easing button
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and choose the third bezier curve this
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will make the animation start quickly
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then smoothly come to a stop
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the next step is to add our fade in
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animation with the layer selected tap
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blending and opacity
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scroll to the one minute 25 frames Mark
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and then tap the add keyframe button
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here we want the text layer to be fully
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opaque then scroll to the one minute
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five frames Mark the first frame of the
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layer and drag the slider left until the
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opacity is zero and the layer completely
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our nature text layer animations are
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we can now move on to the animation on
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the understanding layer which is
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basically the same as the nature layer
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the only difference is that they're
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moving in opposite directions
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so after adding the layer will save time
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by copying the style of the layer we
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already animated
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we'll add the understanding layer at the
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same time as the nature layer and the
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text box that appears type understanding
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set the alignment to Center change the
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font to satisfy regular make it so it
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fits well on the screen and tap the
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check mark to finish editing
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let's scroll ahead until we see both
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text layers which will help us edit more
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leaving the understanding layer gray for
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now will also help
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so here's how to copy the animations
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from the nature layer to the
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understanding layer first tap the nature
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layer to select it then tap the edit
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menu button and then copy layer now
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select the understanding layer go back
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to the edit menu and tap the arrow next
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to paste Style
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we see six icons appear on the screen
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one for each panel in the add layer
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panel we only want to copy the blending
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and opacity and the move and transform
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layer Styles including their animations
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so we turn the rest off and press paste
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you can see that the understanding layer
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now has the same position and animations
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as the nature layer
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time for some final adjustments let's
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select each text layer and swipe on the
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preview so they're centered together
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vertically on the screen remember that
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swiping on the preview lets you move the
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layers entire position animation at once
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without making new keyframes when we Tap
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Play we see that both layers still move
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horizontally
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now we can go ahead and change the color
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of the understanding layer select the
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layer tap on color and fill and change
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the color to white
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the last thing left to change is the
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direction in which the understanding
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layer is moving with the layer selected
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tap on move and transform and use the
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skip buttons to quickly move to the
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first position keyframe
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this keyframe is highlighted in green
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which means that if we swipe on the
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control pad we'll be editing its value
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swiping left we see the line showing the
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layers Movement we can't see the layer
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itself because we've made it invisible
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at the current time
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pressing play we see one layer coming in
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from the left and one from the right
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which is perfect we just need to extend
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the layers to the end of the project
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let's take a bit of time to make some
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minor adjustments to our layers remember
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to edit on the control pad if you want
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to adjust or add an animation or on the
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preview to adjust both the layer and its
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animation together
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for example our project might look
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better if the text layers were offset
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horizontally instead of perfectly sanded
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when they finish
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we can do this by swiping on the preview
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directly to move the layer and its
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animation together
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you can also adjust the position of a
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layer at a particular time in our
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version the snowflake looks a bit too
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high up at the end so in move and
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transform we can scroll to the correct
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keyframe and then swipe down on the
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control pad to move the snowflake lower
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feel free to pause this tutorial and
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keep adjusting until you're happy with
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now it's time to add the background tap
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the add layer button select image and
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video and choose the image or video you
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want to use for the background layer for
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example this winter scene video works
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nicely but go ahead and use whatever
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video you like you may need to trim the
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video to match the length of the project
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you might have noticed a problem at this
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point the background is covering up the
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other layers to fix that we need to
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change the order of the layers on the
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right side of the timeline there's a
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grip for each layer note that this grip
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is separate from the layer itself and is
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always pinned to the right side of the
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timeline view
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long press the grip for the background
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layer for a short moment then continue
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pressing as you drag it downward to move
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the layer to the bottom of the timeline
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in general layers toward the bottom
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appear in the back while layers toward
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the top appear in the front although
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this ordering can be overwritten when
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working with the z-axis
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we can also bring the snowflake layer in
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front of the text layers
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see how nicely everything's coming
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our animation is basically finished but
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there are lots of small things we can do
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to make our project really pop for
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example adding a slight Shadow can make
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our shape and text layers stand out more
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the snowflake layer to select it and
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then tap on border and Shadow tap the
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shadow Tab and then turn on Shadow set
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the values as you like or use the same
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values now shown on the screen we can
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also add Shadows to the text layers
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and if we want our audience to focus on
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the center of the screen as the text
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comes in lens blur is a great effect for
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this it's only available to members but
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everyone can try it
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with a video layer selected tap effects
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then add effect to open the effects
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browser you'll see that a light motion
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has lots to choose from take a second if
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you want to pause this tutorial and
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check out what's available
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now to apply the effect type lens blur
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in the search bar and then select it
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then tap standard settings
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if you don't have an elite motion
20:42 - 20:46
membership just tap try it first when
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given the option
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we'll add a keyframe at the 15 frames
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Mark and another at the one second Mark
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here are the values we're using for each
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keyframe but don't be afraid to adjust
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them to make your project unique
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the last thing we need to do is add some
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music to our project to add an audio
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clip tap on the add layer button then
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choose audio you'll see some audio files
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from your device and you can tap the
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view all button if you'd like to see
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feel free to add your own choice of
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music to this project you can also find
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the download link for the track we're
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using in the description below
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if you don't see the audio file you want
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to use make sure it's in a folder that
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can be accessed by a light motion or add
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it to the music app on your device
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please note that audio files with
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copyright protection or those provided
21:41 - 21:45
by streaming service may not be
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accessible to a light motion if you
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don't see any audio files at all exit
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the project and make sure that demo mode
21:49 - 21:54
is turned off also in the settings on
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your device make sure that a light
21:54 - 21:58
motion can access your media files once
21:56 - 22:00
you've added the audio your project is
21:58 - 22:03
ready go ahead and play it back to see
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what you've created not bad right
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animated gif or a sequence of images
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from there you can save it to your
22:13 - 22:18
device or share it for the world to see
22:16 - 22:19
if you don't have ventilite motion
22:18 - 22:21
membership you'll just need to remove
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lens blur from the background layer
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before exporting
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if you do share your project please use
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the hashtag am getting started because
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we'd love to see it
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so now you know the basics of adding
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images shapes and text as layers you
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know how to animate them using keyframes
22:40 - 22:44
and easing and how to add effects for
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Polish it's a great start
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as you continue your editing Journey
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maybe take some time to familiarize
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yourself with the home and tutorial tabs
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in a light motion the Home tab is where
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you'll find news and updates about a
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light motion straight from the source
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