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Helpful expressions for lights

Helpful expressions for lights - After Effects Tutorial

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Helpful expressions for lights

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- As we saw with cameras in the last movie, expressions can be beneficial by adding additional movement. In this movie we'll look at what we can do with expressions for After Effects lights. So I'm here in my Chapter 3_6 composition and we're going to look at a few expressions, specifically for lights. The first one is actually an expression which will allow you to wiggle a light. If you actually select the lights opacity or intensity by pressing the T key. You could easily option-click and add a wiggle expression. Wiggle is most known for two values and that is how often, how much, is the best way to think about it. So let's just say that you want to wiggle the light's intensity two times a second. In that circular bracket you can enter the value of two, followed by the comma key and then say how much in terms of intensity do you want to wiggle it by. So I want to wiggle this by 30 in this particular case and I'm going to close the circular bracket. What this is going to do is add…

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