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Creating a text template composition: Part 1

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Creating a text template composition: Part 1

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- So now that we've seen how text templates work in between Premiere and After Effects, let's set one up for ourselves and then build a useful animation that another user can manipulate. So our goal over the next two movies is to create a useful text animation. And we're going to start our animation by creating some quick shape animations at the beginning to let's say reveal a logo. So here I'm in my Chapter 1_2 composition that I opened up from my comps folder here in the creating templates chapter one and three project. And the first thing I'm going to do is select the ellipse tool. So one way to do that is with your composition selected, press the "q" key and you're going to cycle with "q" until you see the ellipse tool pop up here on your toolbar. Now we're going to make a couple changes to this ellipse. The first thing is we're going to click on the word fill, right next to the, and make sure there is no fill. 'Cause all we want is a stroke here. We're going to have an animated…

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