From the course: After Effects Guru: Mastering Cameras and Lights

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Adjusting custom views and framing layers

Adjusting custom views and framing layers

- After Effects also allows for custom views that introduce perspective by not remaining constrained to a given access. In this movie, we'll continue our tour of view ports and how to better frame them with the camera tools we've been using. So, I'm here in my chapter 1_7 composition, this is the same project we looked at in the last movie and see here that the majority of our layers here inside the composition have been made 3D and we've got an After Effects camera. This movie we're going to take a look at custom views and then some tips for framing things into view. So, here we have the access to our view layouts, this time I want to just choose two views horizontal and rather than a top view which is on my left-hand side, I'm going to select that, and you'll see here that there is a dropdown menu for the selected views. I want to choose Custom View. What's great about a custom view is that it is meant to give you perspective and those first two tools under the unified camera tool…

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