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Placing and scaling text

Placing and scaling text - After Effects Tutorial

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Placing and scaling text

- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll place and scale the titles and get them ready for appearing under the main spinning mixer arm in the close up shot that you are seeing over here. Before I'm going to do so, I'm going to pull down command here on the Mac, control on the PC, and delete those two markers because we've already finished with this step, and we have a clean and balanced image for both of those instances. Alright, now I'm going to switch to the text workspace because I want to change the size of those two titles, so I'm going to select them together, and I'm going to repeat some of the steps that I already did in previous movies. For instance, I'm going to change the size to 95, and I'm going to change the kerning, which is the spacing between those letters, to use the optical system in order to get better and legible text. Then I'm going to take this title, and I'm actually going to grab it from this area, so not holding this point but just getting close to it, and then…

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