Join Angie Taylor for an in-depth discussion in this video Creating shapes from text layers, part of After Effects: Creating Project Templates.
- If you want to be sure that the users…of template projects get exactly the right look…for the text that you're providing them,…and maybe you want the content…of the text to remain the same,…then it can be useful to convert the text…to shape players or masks…so that they can't actually edit the text.…Obviously, this means the text won't be editable,…so you wouldn't want to do this…with something like this that is obviously…placeholder text.…But say you wanted to provide them with a title…for your template project.…
If I double click this to edit it,…I'm going to call it CC HUD,…and then underneath subtitle,…I'm going to call it CIRCLES.…So I may want to provide them with…this composition, which is the title…of my template project.…If I want to lock that down so they…can't change it and make sure it still says…CC HUD CIRCLES and I want to make sure…the typography's exactly right,…I can select them and I can convert them to shapes.…Now you'll notice it's grayed out…at the moment, and that's because…I've got two selected.…
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10/14/2015- Coming up with project ideas
- Planning projects
- Building backgrounds and graphical animated elements
- Formatting text
- Structuring the project with controller layers
- Working with color
- Optimizing projects
- Making templates easy for others to use
- Packaging your template project
- Selling your project
Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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Welcome1m 59s
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Using the exercise files2m 6s
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1. Coming Up with Ideas
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Experimention leads to ideas5m 22s
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2. Creating Animated Elements
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Using audio to animate6m 13s
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3. Text
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Using cross-platform fonts5m 50s
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4. Project Structure
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5. Color
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6. Optimizing Projects
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Locking and hiding layers2m 53s
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Adding notes to layers2m 33s
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7. Distribution
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Documentation and artwork2m 56s
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Platforms for selling3m 43s
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Making your product sell3m 17s
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