From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Your Photos to Life in Three Dimensions Using Photoshop and After Effects

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Using video files for texture

Using video files for texture

- We've been compositing multiple stills together, but there is a little trick I like to use which is time lapse photography. After all, time lapse is just several stills combined, to show the passage of time in a new movie. You can find a lot of my time lapse courses available here online to help you learn more about the process. But I want to show you some of the basics today of putting stills in with footage. Let's go ahead and open up a project here from chapter 12, and it's the mixing in footage, and I'll open up the start project. We'll be using this for several different steps. All right, and let's begin with shot one, the arch. And in this case, we've got our basic shot. You can see the arch here has been built, and if I really look at that, it's pretty straightforward. Let's go ahead and start to layer in some things. I'm going to bring in the night sky and drop it down below, and then make both of these 3D layers.…

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