Creating a new composition

Masking video using vector shapes

With the car positioned onscreen, you can add the driver. You will use a custom animation preset to create a mask from a shape layer. This shape turns a frontal head shot into a side-view profile shape, which is a “Picasso-esque” signature style of the artist’s work.

_ Note: You’ll learn much more about masking in Lesson 7.

To help you manage the movement of this layer later, you will create a new composition, which you’ll add to the main composition.

1 Drag the GordonsHead.mov clip from the Source folder in the Project panel onto the Create A New Composition button () at the bottom of the panel. After Effects creates a new composition named GordonsHead based on the settings of the movie, and it opens the new composition in the Timeline and Composition panels.

Unfortunately, the GordonsHead movie has a different resolution than the CarRide composition. You need to fix that now.

2 Select the GordonsHead composition in the Project panel, and choose Composition > Composition Settings.

3 In the Composition Settings dialog box, change the Width to 360 pixels. If the Lock Aspect Ratio option is selected, After Effects automatically changes the Height to 240 pixels. Click OK.

Now you’ll scale the layer to fit the composition.

4 Select the GordonsHead layer in the Timeline panel, and choose Layer > Transform > Fit To Comp.

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