How To Use CC Jaws Effect in Adobe After Effects

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Adobe After Effects CC 2024: How To Use CC Jaws Effect

**Description:
**This tutorial will show you how to use the CC Jaws Effect to create wipe transitions in Adobe After Effects CC 2024.

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Keyboard Shortcuts:

Cmd/Ctrl + N: Create New Composition
S: Scale

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro: About The Tutorial
00:11 What is CC Jaws?
00:33 Create New Composition
00:51 Add Assets To Composition
01:28 Add CC Jaws Effect
01:48 Effect Controls: CC Jaws
01:58 CC Jaws: Completion
02:08 CC Jaws: Center
02:17 CC Jaws: Direction
02:27 CC Jaws: Height/Width
02:38 CC Jaws: Shape
03:01 How To Animate
03:42 How To Reverse Animation
04:06 Keyframe Assistant: Time-Reverse Keyframes

**Software Used:
**Adobe After Effects CC 2024 (Click To Try or Buy)

How To Use CC Jaws Effect in After Effects

1. Create New Composition
2. Add Background Layer
3. Add Logo, Text, Graphic Layer on top of Background Layer
4. Add Layer on top that ‘covers’ all of the layers below
5. Go to Effects & Presets Panel
6. Search For CC Jaws
7. Drag CC Jaws Effect on Top Layer

How To Animate CC Jaws Effect

1. Go to Effect Controls
2. Drag CTI (PlayHead to the beginning of Timeline)
3. Click the Stopwatch next to ‘Completion’ & ‘Shape’ to add keyframes
4. Drag CTI forward in time to the 2 second mark
5. Change Completion amount to 65%
6. Change CC Jaws Shape to ‘RoboJaw’
7. Move CTI forward in time and change shape to ‘Blocks’
8. Move CTI forward in time and change shape to ‘Waves’
9. Press Spacebar to Preview

How To Reverse Animation:

1. Drag a selection over all keyframes
2. Copy selected keyframes (Cmd/Ctrl + C)
3. Move CTI forward in time to 4 second mark
4. Paste keyframes (Cmd/Ctrl + V)
5. Right-click on one of the selected keyframes that was just pasted
6. Select ‘Keyframe Assistant’ in the contextual menu
7. Select ‘Time Reverse Keyframes’
8. Press Spacebar to Preview

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