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Adding an additional range selector - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: Getting Started with After Effects for the Non-Video Pro
Adding an additional range selector
- [Instructor] Let's go ahead and open the composition named 3.8, adding an additional Range Selector. So let's go to this folder, expand compositions, and let's go to 3.8, adding an additional Range Selector and double click. Now let's add an animator for rotation. Expand the layer, go to the right of animate and click on that menu and click on rotation. So we are going to work with something new now. We're going to add an expression that is going to be a wiggle expression. So an expression is when code lines of code that are based on JavaScript, are controlling the values and not the key frames or not whatever you wrote in there. So the code is really controlling the value. Click on the word rotation of the animator here, and now let's go animation. Add expression and we're going to use a very simple expression. In reality, all you have to do is type the word wiggle, W-I-G-G-L-E. And in fact there's a helper in there…
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Text in After Effects5m 36s
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Source text2m 54s
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Text on a path7m 8s
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Using animators and the range selector7m 7s
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Animating text position and rotation6m 58s
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Animating text opacity and color5m 25s
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Animating text tracking and character offset and value8m 44s
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Adding an additional range selector6m 7s
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Wiggly selector5m 33s
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