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Animating and exposing text

Animating and exposing text - After Effects Tutorial

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Animating and exposing text

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll animate the type and selectively expose part of it to match the movement in this video. So this is what we have, and I'm going to start from the end over here. I'm going to select both layers of text and then I'm going to hold down the option and shift key here on the Mac, this would be the alt and shift on the PC side, and press the letter P. This will show us the position as well as create key frames for both values. Then I'm going to go to the beginning, and I'm going to deselect they layers, this time just by clicking somewhere over here in the gray area. And I'm going to move only on the x axis for each one of them. So for the first line, your day is, I'm just going to scrub it to say something like this maybe 305. And for the all over the place, I'm going to drag it in the other direction. So let's say around 558, somewhere along those lines. I'm going to mark here on those two key frames and press F9, this will easy ease the beginning, so…

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