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Editors often confuse effort with value.
You can spend 3 hours building an animation with 40 layers in After Effects — and the viewer will see it for 2 seconds.
They don’t know how difficult it was.
They don’t know how many times it broke.
They only experience the final result.
So if a simple zoom communicates the idea better than the complicated animation, use the zoom.
The goal isn’t to prove how hard you worked.
The goal is to make the video work.
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A suspiciously curious cat, an eccentric family with secrets dating back to 1892, and a collection of memories coming together to tell their own STORY.
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