From the course: Editing and Animating to Sound with Adobe After Effects

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Keyframing effects

Keyframing effects

If you've been following along, you can continue to use the Text Presets starter composition you were using. Or if you're picking up from this movie, go ahead and open up 3.2 Additional Keyframing Starter. I'm going to close that and go back to the comp I was working with initially because I've done some nice tricks with my initial range selector values. Alright, let's experiment with just a simple fade out, just to see how that works for getting rid of this text. I promise to add some more pizzazz to it later, but let's start with the basics. I'm going to select the text layer, hold Shift, press T to also see opacity, and keyframe it fading out over, let's say, the same two beats I was playing with initially. And we can play with that timing to see how we like it. Let's preview that. (MUSIC) Again, that's feeling a little bit languid to me to stretch out over these two long beats or four smaller beats. And it also starts fading away before I've had a chance to read that text twice…

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