Post Production -- Project 3

Project 3 - Instructions:

"Watch and create a short video based on a specific tutorial you watched from the Adobe After Effects getting started videos. In your post, mention which tutorial you completed and what you learned from doing the tutorial."

My Project 3 is the "Create and animate text" tutorial at https://www.adobe.com/learn/after-effects/web/creating-animating-text?learnIn=1.

What I Learned:

1. Add text to a composition.

• To place text, select the Type tool in the Tools panel, click in the Composition panel, and type. Use the Selection tool to set the text layer.
• Choose fonts, size, color, justification, and other text properties in the Character and Paragraph panels.
• Preview fonts by clicking a text layer in the timeline, then scroll through the font family drop-down menu in the Character panel.
• Text layers are generated within After Effects and have their own parameters in addition to the normal transform properties associated with every layer.

2. Animate efficiently with text presets

• Apply and edit prebuilt text animations.
• Find and search for text presets in the Effects & Presets panel.
• Browse animation presets using Adobe Bridge.
• Drag and drop a preset from the Effects and Presets panel directly on a text layer to apply. The first keyframe of the preset will be placed at the location of the Current Time Indicator (CTI).
• Slide keyframes to change the timing of the animation. Stretch or squash multiple keyframes by holding Alt (Windows) or Option (MacOS) and dragging the first or last keyframe with all keyframes selected.

3. Animate text letter by letter

• Create per-character animation.
• In the timeline, open the layer parameters by clicking the triangle to the left of the layer number. Text layers have their own set of parameters in addition to the normal transform options for the layer.
• To the right of the text layer parameters (Text) look for the word Animate. Click the button to the right of the word Animate and choose a parameter to animate. Once a parameter has been chosen, a Text Animator will be applied to the text.
• Scrub Range Selector parameters to preview possible parameters to animate. Animate type by adding keyframes to different range selector parameters.
• To remove an applied parameter, range selector, or animator, click directly on the words in the timeline and press Delete.

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