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Animating text position and rotation

Animating text position and rotation - After Effects Tutorial

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Animating text position and rotation

- Let's go ahead and open the composition named 3.5 animating text position and rotation. So open this folder, open this compositions and is going to be 3.5 text position and rotation, double click it. And there you go. Let's go ahead in the timeline and expand this text layer and let's add an animator for position. Go to the word animate and click on the icon right next to it. And now choose position. This adds an animator for position, and you're going to see that the position is zero, zero. Now in Adobe world. If you look at position and let's go ahead and expand transform here. If you look at position, you're going to see that position is based on X and Y coordinates that are starting to count from the top left and zero zero would be top left. Now the animator has a zero, zero, but position on there transformed does not. The position of the animator. So this one here is given to you in values, which are in…

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