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Add secondary animation

Add secondary animation - After Effects Tutorial

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Add secondary animation

- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to add a secondary animation in the form of a graphic blast, all using a simple line of animated text. And I'm referring to this blast that comes out of the three boxes, over here. So I'm going to close the Sketchup Final comp which I've opened just as a reference, and you can always do so yourself by folding down the Final folder, and here it is. Alright, I'm going to go back to the point that we've left off in the previous movie, this is it. So we've got all the elements, except of this blast. And I'm going to go to two seconds, and 21 frames where the boxes are building one on top of the other. And then I'm going to go to the Text tool and double-click on it in order to create an empty Text layer on the screen. Now I'm using the Arial font, the size in my case is set to 150 pixels, and the color is set to red, and you can sample this red from here. Alright, so now I'm going to type in ten vertical lines, and you can find this vertical…

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