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Animated track mattes: Adding life and depth to compositions

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Animated track mattes: Adding life and depth to compositions

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- Animated track mattes elevate your compositions by introducing movement and fluidity. As you animate the matte's properties, you infuse your scenes with a sense of life and dynamism. Let's go ahead and open the sequence named 3.3, Animated Track Mattes, sequences, chapter three, 3.3. And there you have it. And notice that this flying puffin has like almost like a little spotlight applied to it, that is because we have a graphic on top of it, which is acting as a track matte. So this is what we have. We have a bottom clip, which is brighter or darker, in this case, we have a middle clip, which is normal, and then we have the graphic. So let's go ahead and create a graphic for the puffin on this second set of clips. Let me go ahead and grab the pen tool, and I'm going to draw a graphic that goes around the puffin like yay. And I like that. And there's the path, the appearance, and that's pretty good, so I think I'm…

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