From the course: Motion Graphics for Video Editors: Working with Type
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Customizing animation presets
From the course: Motion Graphics for Video Editors: Working with Type
Customizing animation presets
- I already applied an animation preset to my text layer, but what I'd like to do now is customize it a bit to get the results that I want. In this case, I'm using the evaporate preset. If I twirl down the controls here and take a look, I can see that under text. The evaporate animator was applied. Now, as you look at these things, you'll start to see the controls. For example, what drives most text animations, is the range selector. An easy way to get to just the key frames being used is to press the U key, to see the user added key frames. Now, if I want to re-time this, I can start by just moving both key frames. Maybe I want the text to be on-screen for four seconds before it animates off. So, I'll select this here and just drag these both down. And you'll see that the text animation starts here. Now, I want the animation to take its time, so let's go forward plus three seconds. Three zero zero. And I'll drag the second key frame to that new position. But I notice that the text…
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