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Animate text and shape to make a lower third

Animate text and shape to make a lower third

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Animate text and shape to make a lower third

- [Instructor] The actual concept for this lower third is relatively simple and rather than describe it, let me just show you what I have in mind. I will start with the bar and I'm going to start at about one second and the focus is in a little bit. I'm going to adjust my timeline and actually before doing that, I wanted to adjust the work areas. We're just working on the first few seconds here and you can see how these work in tandem to let me adjust that. That will become important when we start previewing. First, let's create our animation. So for the bar, first of all I don't want it to appear into this points so I'm going to trim the starting point to here and then twirling down the transform controls. I'm going to key frame scale. This is actually my end frame, so I'm going to move it ahead. Let's say one second although I know it's going to go faster than that. I did that for you, novice animators, who…

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