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Exploring text transitions - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 06 Type and Music
Exploring text transitions
At this point, I have a text animator that types on, one character at a time. The only problem is I haven't created a transition. So let's look at the different options for making that happen. To create a transition, I need to make the text invisible at the beginning of the animation. Now there are number of ways to do this. One option is to move the position even higher, so it appears off the top of the composition. That may not work for everything. Let's bring our position down to the center actually, and we can decrease Scale. And we'll need to decrease it all the way to 0, so I'll just press 0 and return, RAM Preview. Now the characters will scale up one character at a time, and that'll also create a transition. I'll return scale to 100%, and we'll do position with no offset. And kind of a silly option is actually to keep increasing blur until it disappears. That'll also appear to transition on the characters, although you will have to increase Blur a lot to make it appear to…
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