From the course: Creating a Mograph Title Sequence: 2 Animating in After Effects

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Creating a matte with Auto-trace

Creating a matte with Auto-trace

From the course: Creating a Mograph Title Sequence: 2 Animating in After Effects

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Creating a matte with Auto-trace

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- [Instructor] The next shot number six, doesn't require any special treatment as far as visual effects and compositing goes. So we are moving to shot number seven that needs some love, especially in the masking department. So in this movie I'll show you how to use the auto trace command, to draw a very elaborate mask in few seconds. This is a big time saver. Are you ready for it? Well, even if you're not, here we go. So I'll go to the beginning of the timeline. And then I'll select this layer and solo it. This is the layer that we need to mask away, and this is what we got out of Premiere Pro. So let's go to the effects controls, and I'll shift select all of the effects here or the color key, and press delete or backspace to remove them. Next, I'll go to the Effect Menu and under color correction, apply once again the colorama effect. Which can create advanced color manipulation, and conserve is a great utility…

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