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Effects motion path

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Effects motion path

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- [Instructor] Hello, and welcome to After Affects Weekly. I'm Eran, and I want to ask you, did you ever try to animate the spatial path of effects and couldn't find it? Now if you don't understand the question, that's totally fine. Let me show you what I mean. So I have here a simple comp with only one layer. And let's say that I want to add a lens flare effect to this video. Arguably, it's not necessary, but I will do it anyhow to illustrate my point, or actually, my path. So I'll close the preview. I'll select the layer. I'll go under Effect, and from the Generate category, I'll add the Lens Flare effect. I'll switch to the Effect Controls. I'll change the Lens Type to, let's say, 35 millimeter prime. And I'll take this target, by the way you can click on to see where it is, so I'll point it over here. And I want to animate it going from the left to the right side of the screen. So I'll create a keyframe…

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