Most Important tools in After Effects Application

1. Shape Layers

• One of the best places you can begin is with the shape layer. Shape layers are 2D, level items made either physically by the client with the pen apparatus (see beneath), or with a foreordained shape that After Effects offers, for example, a rectangle, oval, or pentagon. 
• Shape layers enable you to modify properties, for example, their stroke (framework of the shape), fill (the internal region of the shape inside the diagram), and even particular subtle elements like corner roundness. In light of their broad adaptability, they are perfect for rapidly producing symmetrical shapes, complex examples, and 2D craftsmanship. 
• Solid layers are very helpful too, however aren't sufficiently convoluted to warrant point by point clarification. They are essentially a shape layer without adaptable properties past measurements, shading, and standard 2D change properties like position, scale, and pivot. 

2. Pen Tool/Masks 

• We can't talk about shape layers and strong layers without addressing the pen instrument. The pen device enables you to make a shape or line by drawing a vertex at any given moment. This can be utilized to veil off a particular region of a strong layer, and it can likewise be utilized to draw another shape layer. These are its most major purposes, yet the pen device likewise enables you to draw and modify ways. 

• Paths can be utilized as position direction for a layer to move along, or notwithstanding for content, down to the individual character if craved. In this same vein, the stroke impact can be connected to a strong layer with a way, which will draw a movable line along said way — a more proficient substitute to enlivening a shape layer's worked in stroke.

• With these different applications, the pen device can be utilized to rotoscope (follow a protest include or evacuate it, generally from live activity film), make fine art, and accomplish an assortment of cool content impacts, for example, mimicked hand composing or wavy development. While there are for all intents and purposes interminable approaches to use the pen apparatus, these are among the most prominent.  

3. Track Mattes

• The pen apparatus is correspondingly vital with respect to track mattes. A track matte uses one layer to cover another as indicated by the straight forwardness or luminance of the veiling layer. For instance, in the event that you set a layer to Alpha Matte, it will constrain its appearance to non-straightforward zones of the layer above it. Alpha Inverted Matte would restrain the layer's appearance to just the straightforward regions of the layer above it.
• Track mattes are awesome for utilizing existing advantages for change layers — particularly Luma Mattes, since they depend on brilliance as opposed to straightforwardness. Be that as it may, the fundamental offering purpose of the track matte is its adaptability. When utilizing the pen device to veil off a piece of a scene, applying said cover to a committed matte layer will permit you more space for blunder. 
• For example, if roto scoping a man inside real to life film, you may wind up veiling off the recording layer itself. Instead of point of confinement yourself along these lines, you're in an ideal situation rotoscoping this cover onto a committed strong layer isolate from the recording, at that point putting it over your recording layer and setting that recording layer to Alpha Matte. 
• For one, this will enable you to see your veil with a level shading, underlining imperfections. Furthermore, with this veil connected to a processor-accommodating strong layer, you can copy it and utilize it to cover off different layers later on without stalling your render times or managing the challenges of copying covers. 
• Track mattes gloat effectiveness benefits too, as you would more be able to rapidly accomplish some veiling impacts by means of the position, scale, and turn properties of a matte layer, instead of the disappointing work process of complex position, scale, and pivot cover activity by means of the pen apparatus.

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