From the course: After Effects CC 2019 Essential Training: Editors and Post
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From the course: After Effects CC 2019 Essential Training: Editors and Post
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- [Instructor] If you're a Premiere Pro user, you might have found its tool for creating text to be fairly basic, especially when it comes to animating them. Luckily, After Effects is home to the most dynamic and powerful text tools available for motion graphics. Here, we'll take a look at setting up some type by exploring the character menu. In this composition, I have some footage of letterpress machinery at work, and I thought it might make for a cool backdrop for our title. So we have some motion here on the left, and on the right hand side, we can reserve that to create some text. So, before we create text, let's go ahead and switch over to our layout, or our workspace. We'll come over here to window, workspace, text, and that's going to open up our character and paragraph panels. And the character panel might look familiar to you, it's pretty much identical to the one found in Photoshop. So if you have some experience with that, you'll feel right at home. I'm going to come over…
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