After Effects Apprentice, 2nd Edition

Type and Music

Animating text and working with music are essential to motion graphics design

In This Lesson

creating basic text

creating Text Animators, Range Selectors

animating text transform properties

randomizing the order of characters

creating cascading text

working with selection Shapes

setting the text Anchor Point

animating by words

title safe areas

animating text Blur and Tracking

text on a path

Per-character 3D animators

separating fields

adding the Wiggly Selector

rendering with an alpha channel

field rendering

adding sound to a comp

add comp and layer markers

applying Text Animation Presets

customizing presets

saving text animations as presets

editing Photoshop Text layers

Getting Started

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