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The Buzz Words preset

The Buzz Words preset - After Effects Tutorial

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The Buzz Words preset

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- In this movie I'll show you how to use the buzzwords animation preset to cycle a long list of words. I'll also show you how to save time by formatting your list in a word processor. To get started I'll open my second composition: Cycling Text 2: Buzzwords. I have one layer in this comp and I've typed countries here to remind me that I have to paste in a list of countries that my client has provided in an email. But first, I'll show you how this cycling text is going to work. Select the layer, then in the 'Effects and Presets' panel, twirl down the 'Animation Presets' folder, twirl down 'Text', and then twirl down the 'Expressions' folder. The animation preset you're looking for is 'Buzz Words'. I can just double click to apply it to my selected layer and run preview. As you can see, this is automatically cycling between one and ten. So how is this magic happening? After all, I don't see any key frames applied to…

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