From the course: After Effects Guru: Creating Presets and Controllers

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Sharing presets

Sharing presets

- So what's the use of creating all these presets if we can't share them with others? In this movie, we'll take a look at where the presets are saved, and how to share them with other team members to save them time as well. So let's share a text preset first. I have a text preset here, a text layer. And if I press the spacebar on the timeline, we can see the animation that takes place. A great way to be able to save this is to press the disclosure triangle, and let's go inside the text section, and here's our Animator 1, containing a bunch of properties, position, opacity, fill color, character offset, and blur, which were used in the animation. So I want to select the Animator 1, and I'm going to go to the Animation menu that we've done in the previous movies and save this as a preset. I could name this accordingly after all of those animated properties, so I'll just say customized, fade down, and blur in, naming two of the properties, and keep in mind this is now saved in that user…

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