Bubble Layer Texture: 3 Starburst.
To see the ?¬?nished results, select 34. Rendered from the View popup menu at
the top of the Effect Controls panel. You now have pixie dust.
Figure 7.25: Change the view from Draft to Rendered to see a better
representation of the bubbles in the Comp Window.
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Figure 7.26: The Foam effect can use another composition??™s artwork for a texture.
Click on the 35. RAM Preview button to view the ?¬?nal composition.
Select 36. Composition > Make Movie. This opens the Render Queue.
Click on 37. Lossless next to Output Module. Set the Format to Adobe
Flash Video. Click on Format Options and set the Bitrate setting to 400.
Under Basic Video Settings, encode the alpha channel (Figure 7.27).
Figure 7.27: Render the Flash Video ?¬?le with an alpha channel.
Click on 38. Output To and select the Chapter_07 folder on your hard drive as
the ?¬?nal destination for the rendered movie. Click the Render button.
Let??™s move to Flash. Double-click on 39. 02_FairyFlight.?¬‚a in the 02_Expressions
folder to open the ?¬?le in Flash. It contains one layer, a background image.
Click on the 40. New Layer icon at the bottom of the Timeline panel.
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