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Animating text tracking and character offset and value

Animating text tracking and character offset and value - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: Getting Started with After Effects for the Non-Video Pro

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Animating text tracking and character offset and value

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- [Instructor] Let's go ahead and open composition 3.7, text tracking and character offset and value. Expand the folder, expand the compositions folder. And here we go, 3.7 text tracking, double click it, and it opens up. In here, we're going to add an animator for text tracking, and then we're going to add one for character offset and value. Expand the text, layer and go into the animators, and let's add one for tracking. Notice that as I track, as I changed the tracking of these characters, all of them get affected, that's because the range selector is all the way at the beginning and all the way at the end. In other words, the range of the characters is all of them. And I can change things like the tracking type, et cetera, et cetera. Let's change the tracking amount to about 100, you can just type it. And now we're going to keyframe the range selector so that it starts at zero, the start line that is, and it…

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