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Applying tracking to an effect point

Applying tracking to an effect point - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Weekly

Applying tracking to an effect point

- [Instructor] Last week we tried to enter the Speed Force by creating this smearing look with the help of the CC Radial Blur effect. Now I never been to the Speed Force myself, but from what I understood from a recent call with The Flash himself, the entrance would probably look like this, with some striking lights everywhere. So in this tip, I'll show you how to add graphical beams that will push this rider to speed up even faster. And we'll do all of that with a combination of an audio effect and some motion tracking. So I'll switch back to this composition where I only have the smearing effect, and for now I'm going to switch off the visibility of this adjustment layer. We'll switch it on later. I'll select a main clip here, and I'll start by going to the effect menu and under the generate category, I'll apply the audio spectrum effect. Now this effect will display the frequency spectrum of some selected audio…

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