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Working with and animating After Effects text with presets

Working with and animating After Effects text with presets - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

From the course: Final Cut Pro X Guru: Motion Graphics in Motion and After Effects

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Working with and animating After Effects text with presets

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- After Effects has many possibilities when it comes to formatting with and animating text. Let's see a few of the options available to us as we create some text and animate a few of the characters with a preset. So I'm just going to draw our attention back to the Motion exercise we did where we created some swinging text. We then animated a line, as well as some subtext, using a Sequence Text Behavior. We're going to try to do a similar thing in After Effects, designing the exact same thing, just get a sense for how that works. So here's some swinging text, just to draw your attention back to that movie that we previously did. We're going to create this. Although it says Adventures in Motion, this is really all about adventures in After Effects. Now we're in After Effects. Let's create the swinging text. So I'm going to hit command + t, which is your shortcut to activate the text tool on a Mac. I'll click my cursor in the screen and type in the words Swinging Text. As soon as I've…

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