From the course: After Effects CC 2019 Essential Training: Editors and Post

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- [Instructor] Perhaps the biggest draw to doing your titles in After Effects rather than in Premiere is the incredibly powerful animation tools. Each text layer has unique properties called text animators that can easily add a new level of dynamics to your project. Here we'll take a look at a few of those text animators and see a bit of what they're capable of. So in this composition I've got my background layer and I've got a bit of text there that's just kind of sitting in place. Now I can certainly animate the opacity and bring them on line by line or layer by layer, but that's kind of boring. Let's go ahead and use text animators to make something interesting happen. So to make that happen let's select our first layer and let's twirl it down. And I you don't already have it, enable your switches or your modes by coming over here to columns, switches, and modes, either one of these will have this in place. And this is what we're looking for. We twirl this down, all these are text…

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