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Animating titles - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 07 Parenting
Animating titles
You created this animated opening title in a movie earlier in this lesson. Well, it's okay but we can make it a lot fancier and that's what I would like to show you in this Idea Corner. Now, what I am already doing is using a null object to move all the title elements as a group from their initial position off into this corner. Since I'm done with that particular movement, I don't have a need to see that null object anymore, I am going to turn off the video switch for the null. Null objects don't render any way. They don't give you a render time hit. They will never appear on the screen. It's just a matter of reducing clutter at our display. Next, I don't like everyone being on at the same time because I'm forcing the viewer to process all this visual information at the same time. To lead them from one item to the next, I might stagger their appearance. For example, I might decide that I do indeed want my station number and my bug to be on from the very beginning of the composition…
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