Adobe After Effects CS4 Classroom in a Book

Chapter 3. Animating Text

Lesson overview

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

• Create and animate text layers.

• Stylize text using the Character and Paragraph panels.

• Animate text using animation presets.

• Preview animation presets in Adobe Bridge.

• Customize an animation preset.

• Animate text using keyframes.

• Animate layers using parenting.

• Edit and animate imported Adobe Photoshop text.

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

• Apply a text animation to a graphic object.

• Import SWF files.

• Export a project for further work in Adobe Flash.

Adobe After Effects offers many ways to animate text. You can animate text layers by ...