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Creating a text animator

Creating a text animator - After Effects Tutorial

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Creating a text animator

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In this movie, we're going to add a text animator and explore the concept behind how they work. I encourage you to have a composition open with some simple text, and if you are using our exercise files and following along, you should have already created the Just Dropping In title in the previous movie. Now, the After Effects text engine was originally based on the Photoshop text engine, but Photoshop doesn't know how to animate text, so After Effects has added text animators. To apply a text animator, select your text, but don't actually pre-select the characters like this. If you have, press the Enter key, so just the layer is selected and not the individual characters. I'll explain the significance of this in the next movie. In the timeline, we'll twirl down the Text layer, and you'll see two sections: Text and Transform. Now Transform are the original transformations, and there is obviously no reason why you couldn't animate these. You should already know how to animate positions,…

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