From the course: Getting Started with After Effects for the Non-Video Pro

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- [Instructor] Let's go ahead and open the composition called 3.2 source text. So in your project panel, expand, expand the compositions folder, and then just double click on the composition named 3.2 source text and of course there's already a layer of text in here. Text layers are unlike any other layers in After Effects, they have properties that are unique to text layers. Let's go ahead in the timeline and expand this text layer. You're going to see that there are two things. Transform, which we have seen before which is anchor point, positions, scale, rotation, and opacity, that never changes in any layer that contains pixels and there's also text properties. The first property that we see under text is the source text and it has an hourglass right next to it, meaning that it can be key framed. Let's go ahead and move our play head to second one and key frame the source text. Move the play head to the second second,…

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