From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 06 Type and Music
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Multiple ranger selectors - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 06 Type and Music
Multiple ranger selectors
- [Instructor] As long as we're talking about animations based on words, we'd like to show you a couple more tricks that involve selecting words ahead of time to automatically set up range selectors based on those words. And also, while we're at it, combining multiple range selectors inside the same text animation. This additional exercise is inside the exercise files for CS 6 and for CC, although this feature has been an after effects for many, many years. I'm going to open up MU1 to range selector starter. Here we have a line of text, and we'd like to play around with an animation that highlights the words two and one. What I'm going to do is use my text tool to select that first word that I want to change the color of, or, otherwise, highlight. When you have selected a piece of text, and then, you create a new text animator, its range selection will be based on your actual selection. So, I'm going to say animate, fill…
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