Now that you have started practicing and perfecting your heart beat it is time to go to the next step. If you have set the beat to music or not it is time to add the stroke effect. The stroke effect is used for many things in After Effects but this is one of my favorites. As soon as you add the stroke you will probably notice the the size of the stroke is too small. I like to set my brush size to around 5 to 7 pixels depending n the size of my composition. I also set the stroke color to green and make sure you set the path to mask or your stroke will not know where to go! The rest of the settings you can set to your flavor except start and end. This is how you animate the heartbeat. Scrub the end setting and watch your stroke go from left to right. Set a key frame at the head of your comp and move down apox. 2 seconds down the time-line. You can adjust the keyframe up and down the timelineto get the timing you need........stay tune for part three!
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