Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago

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A quick tutorial for @AdobeVideo After Effects.

In this video, I answer a question I see a lot on forums: "How can you get one shape to cut out bits from another" - it's a clean look effect which a lot of people think is really complicated involving track mattes, masks and parenting. It's not. It's super-easy, barely an inconvenience. (Thank you @ScreenRant ). Once the intersecting shapes are set up correctly, a transfer mode, then I share a simple method to change their colours so that you're not stuck with black and white.

#aftereffects #tutorial #shapes

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:50 The trick
1:12 Changing the colors

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