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Light Placement in Adobe After Effects

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Summary: Tips for setting up lights in After Effects. Learn how to set up lights using Adobe After Effects software in this free video editing tutorial from a film production professor.

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John Carstarphen is an experienced independent filmmaker, screenwriter, animator and teacher. His work as a writer/director has been seen in international film festivals including...read more

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"And the intensity is a bit too much on that so, let's lower it to 90. I'm going to grab the Z axis on the light and just interactively move it. I could move it closer or further away from the images. And you can see that it's affecting all the images. Because they're all 3D layers. And by doing some clever placement of the lights, you can get a pretty interesting range of effects. What would happen if we made this a darker blue? Just to have something a little more extreme to see the difference that this creates. Now you can see that you can really add some nice lighting touches to your images."

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