From the course: Motion Graphics for Video Editors: Working with Type
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Browsing text animation presets
From the course: Motion Graphics for Video Editors: Working with Type
Browsing text animation presets
- To make things easy to start, After Effects offers several animation presets. These can be browsed as a text-based list, or you can look at them visually as well. Let's work with the composition here called "Text Block". And you'll see that there's already a block of text loaded into After Effects. With that selected, I can choose to view my animation presets by going to "Effects and Presets". Now, this contains a lot of choices, and you'll see that if you have third party filters installed, there might be several different categories here. What we wanna look at is the animation presets, which is located at the very top. Now, these are organized by function. You'll find that animation presets are available for many things, such as processing an image, creating content like backgrounds, or even animated transitions. For now, let's focus on just the text ones. Down here is the text category, and these are organized into subcategories, such as "3D Motion", or the ability to create…
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