3. Animating Text

Lesson overview

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

  • Create and animate text layers.

  • Stylize text using the Character and Paragraph panels.

  • Apply and customize text animation presets.

  • Preview animation presets in Adobe Bridge.

  • Install fonts using Adobe Fonts.

  • Animate text using keyframes.

  • Edit and animate imported Adobe Photoshop text.

  • Use a text animator group to animate selected characters on a layer.

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This lesson will take about 90 minutes to complete. If you haven’t already done so, download the project files for this lesson from adobepress.com/AfterEffectsCIB2023, following the instructions in the Getting ...

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