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what is up guys and welcome to another
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exciting tutorial today I'm going to
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show you how to track a screen recording
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or screenshot to your phone I use this
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effect a lot to Showcase what is
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happening on our talent screen I think
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this effect looks super cool as a
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futuristic modern looking style effect
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which you should have in your editing
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toolbox so let's Dive Right In
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okay we fire up after effects and create
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a new project and first of all we want
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to drag our footage inside so go into
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your folder drag your clip into After
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Effects yes let's create a sequence and
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I'll show you what we are working with
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so we have our talent and a nice Moody
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bus station which is looking super
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cinematic we like this shot and the
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first thing we are going to do is create
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a null object so tap in here new null
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object boom next up we select our clip
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and go to the tracker panel if you don't
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see the tracker panel go up to Windows
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and make sure you check the tracker here
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yes in here make sure the clip is
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selected go to track motion and we want
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to track the motion for rotation and
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scale but you can also track the motion
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just for the position so you would only
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have one of these tracker like that in
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the beginning so it will just track your
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position it won't change anything in
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scale or rotation but since we have some
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nice two tracking points here we can
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also track the rotation and the scale
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for a better looking outcome so make
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sure you check them both and now click
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on edit Target and for the Target we
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choose our null object we just created
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next up we are going to options and
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choose in here stop tracking and the
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confidence we will set to 90 so that's
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the settings we want make sure you drag
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the slider all the way to beginning if
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you have defined your tracking points
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your tracking points should be really
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contrasty in my case I'm going to use uh
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this dot here on top of the phone and
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for my second tracker I will use the
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other one
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right here this this totally works for
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me and yeah these two tracking points
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should be visible throughout the clip so
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make sure there's nothing covering this
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point so you can get a clean track
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awesome so let's go to the first frame
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and make sure our trackers are in place
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another thing go back into your
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composition window you can change
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Windows up here and make sure you set
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the resolution to full resolution to get
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the best outcome nice so we got
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everything set I'm happy and it's time
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to start the track and to start the
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track we just need to click here and the
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clip will be analyzed so and we have our
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first situation where the tracker is not
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sure about the tracking but it looks
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good I also want to check my keyframes
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so I press U while my clip is selected
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that brings up all the keyframes of the
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tracker yeah this is looking good so I
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tell the tracker to keep tracking
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forward yes and you just repeat this
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process till you get to the end of your
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clip and if the tracker gets something
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wrong you can just correct it by moving
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The Trackers around but this one is
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doing a good job we have good contrasty
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tracking points which is easy to track
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and Ebola we have our track now we can
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scrub through the clip and check this is
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looking good to me nice and we have
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everything set up before so we just need
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to apply the tracking data onto our null
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object so click apply apply for X and Y
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enter boom and we have our information
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the tracking data on the null object
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that's awesome so we can rename the null
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object to tracker that's perfect and to
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check our track we can just create a
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solid so go to new solid or maybe are we
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going for a red one so we see what we
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are doing we can just quickly rescale
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yes and all the magic just happens with
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one click now so you just need to parent
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the solid a screenshot or a screen
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recording or whatever you have to your
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tracker so that's the null object with
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all the data and it will follow the path
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this is nice now let's make our layer a
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3D layer so we can place it like
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realistic in 3D space and see how this
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going to look so this one is looking
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better to me and if there's too much
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going on with rotation scale and all the
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tracks um you just have to create
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another null object we just call this a
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Tracker position that fits for us so we
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choose the tracker position choose our
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clip track motion then we go into
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options and we can just do the same
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process again and tracking only the
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position
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all right done we have just tracked a
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second tracker let's parent the solid to
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the only position tracker and see how
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that looks yeah that that looks a little
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bit more chilled so we don't have the
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rotation and the and the scale going on
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so yeah it always depends on what you
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want to have for the outcome and what
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you're actually looking for so we have
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both options right here and you can
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track whatever works for you so we get
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everything set up for now in After
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Effects so now ready to do our screen
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recording so I'm just going to go to
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Instagram and scroll a little bit this
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always looks cool if you have someone
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scrolling around yeah it's it's pretty
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nice sheet type something on the screen
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uh we maybe should go maybe into our
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nodes
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I create a new node and they hey guys
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and now what we want to do is create a
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new comp so just drag it on here and the
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new comp we can just drag into our main
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comp that's because if we want to change
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something in the screen recording we're
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just going to do it in the comp so we
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don't have to do scaling and rotation
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again we are now editing the whole
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composition nice so let's rescale it to
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something that fits for us maybe here
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you can disable the red solid that makes
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definitely sense so we have more space
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to place our screen recording and now we
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just have to do the same as we did with
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the solid and to use the tracker data we
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just need to parent it to whatever
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tracker we want I'm not tracking it to
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the tracker with the rotation and
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everything
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this is looking good
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so now we're going in and creating a 3D
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layer out of that so we can place it
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realistically in 3D space now we can
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also change the blending mode maybe to
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screen this can look pretty cool and
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more futuristic and in here let's draw a
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rough mask around this area so we just
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see actually the nodes let's correct
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that a little all right looking good and
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if we go back in the comp boom
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so it's moving with it perfect so you
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got everything set up I really like this
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design yeah it's pretty dope so we can
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place it wherever it fits for you we can
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also add some glow to it we just just go
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to the effects and search for glow
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and let's add some glow that definitely
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makes a a difference it looks way cooler
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with that
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nice and yeah now we can do some really
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cool stuff to actually make it pop out
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and for that we are
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defining the Anchor Point
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to where the phone is so let's say the
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Anchor Point is around here and then we
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bring up scale by pressing s making a
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keyframe so that's our final scale going
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back in time and setting the scale to
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zero so it's actually coming all the way
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from zero up boom and now we can smooth
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the keyframes
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so that was a keyframe before really
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really hard
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you can just go in here
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and yeah make it really really smooth
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and pop out now let's activate motion
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blur as always in the composition on
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your layer you can make the animation
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pop in a little bit slower we can also
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work with the Anchor Point maybe put it
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here so the anchor part is exactly at
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the phone yeah that works cool so this
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is our first layer we have and yeah
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remember always to save so you do
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command s you choose the location where
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you want to save your project call it
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smart
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phone tracker boom go back into your
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project and now we're creating a new
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comp with the same screen recording so
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we just had the the scroll here I think
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it's pretty nice we defined the in and
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out points
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and create a new sequence
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this one we can call feet
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and the feed we just have to now drag
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into our main comp again boom same
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workflow as before we parenting to our
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null object and if their names change
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for some reason it's because you have
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clicked here on Source name and if you
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click it again you see the landing so
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easy don't get confused or freak out if
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you don't see the names you can just
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change it here so same we can do is here
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to change the blending mode again to
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screen maybe go a little bit down in
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scale parent it to the same tracker to
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the null object yes
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go into the modes again and
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here we do we create a 3D layer
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and now position it in 3D space whatever
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looks cool for us I think here's the
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same we go into our feed comp and draw a
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rough mask
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so we just see the feed right
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maybe something like that that's pretty
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cool go back in our main comp yes
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looking good you here see the difference
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um this one is not proper tracked to the
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same tracker so we are parented to just
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the position tracker we go back in here
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go to Parenting and use the other
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tracker and now they are tracked with
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the same tracker so they move kinda in
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the same way and here I would recommend
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doing actually the same so we're
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bringing up the scale with s making sure
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Center The Anchor Point actually at the
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phone making a screenshot for scale for
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the ending position going forward in
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time
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scale to zero activating motion blur on
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the layer
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bringing up the keyframes smoothing the
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keyframes boom and we have the second
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one dropping out as well boom that's it
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guys I'm super excited what you guys
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gonna create with this technique so
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please make sure to tag me if you create
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something and post it on the social so I
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for today's tutorial I'll wish you an
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amazing day
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