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Formatting the text

Formatting the text - After Effects Tutorial

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Formatting the text

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- [Instructor] In this movie I'll show you how to format the text to look better, as well as emphasize part of the message using different scaling. So, I'm inside the Roladin Edit and I've opened up the first composition, shot number one, and I'm just going to press Spacebar so you can see the point that we are at. We already finished with the stabilization and now it's time to reformat the text as well as animate it, in a later stage. But for now, I'm just going to switch workspaces because I need more tools and I have very limited screen real estate. So I'm going to go to this overflow menu in my case and I'm going to choose the Text Built-in layout that ships with After Effects. This way, I can have access to the Character and the Paragraph files which I'm going to use in this movie. All right, I'm going to select the first layer over here. Actually, this is the second one. The first layer is Your Day Is, so you might as well change the order of them. So let's start with this one…

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