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Create a burst of light

Create a burst of light

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Create a burst of light

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- [Instructor] In this lesson, we'll take a look at the light burst effect, which works a little differently than the light rays effect that we looked at earlier. And we'll apply this effect to a text layer. So this'll give us a chance to work with text in After Effects, as well. Let's start with a blank, untitled project inside of After Effects. Let's first come up to the composition menu, choose new composition. We'll name this burst. For the width, let's set this down to 1000 pixels, hit tab, let's set the height to 500. Make sure we have square pixels. And for the background color, let's come in here and make sure we're using a medium gray. So right about here, click OK, click OK again. I'm gonna make sure my composition panel is set to fit in window for the magnification. And so now, let's come up and select the text tool in the toolbar. When we select the text tool, this is gonna open the character and paragraph panels, as well. And in the introduction video, we created a new…

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