From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 17 Video Walls in Cinema 4D Lite

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Creating 3D text in After Effects

Creating 3D text in After Effects

- What I'd like to do is animate some text falling in over our video wall while it performs its camera move falling back from its initial position. To do that, I'm going to go somewhere later in the timeline where I can see that video wall quite clearly and select the Type Tool to create some text. By clicking on this, it opens up my character and paragraph panels. I'll start with centered text for now, since I have centered my screen on a particular coordinate, it would be good to center the text as well, helps me line up my coordinates. Let's pick a clean, readable font. You can use what you want to. Myriad Pro's pretty readable, I'll use that. Let's try something like 48 points. You can go ahead and change this later or change it to your own taste. We'll use white text to begin with. I might decide later to colorize it to match other video inside the scene, but white's a good starting point. I have my Text Tool active. I'll click anywhere on my display here and type in something…

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