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Adobe After Effects 7 - How to Insert and Animate a Text Layer

Now something else that we want to add to this animation which should make it look quite good is another piece of type down here in the lower right hand side that perhaps says, you know, “Who is starring in your TV show” or whatever it is you want to do in there. And then we can animate the text using a preset that comes with After Effects. So just scrub the timeline back, we are actually on the text on screen for quite some time. Let us bring you back to round about where you see number six at here on the top of the timeline which is about 4 seconds and 7 frames and we will create a brand new text layer. Now one of the quickest ways to do that is simply go to the layer menu, go down and choose new and select text. This will add a text layer you can see in the timeline and there is in fact a small cursor flashing in the center of the screen, not very visible but if you do start to type you will see that the character start to appear. I am just going to type in the words “featuring” and then put whatever name you want after that. This is your TV program. I will go ahead and put my own name in there. Now by default, my type options are set to black types. It is not very visible at the moment on this background but we will change that. Now with that type selected just by pressing Command A, we are going to come up to the control bar across the top here and click the small pallet icon which will activate the text pallets. Once again you will see that they are kind of slotted in to the interface here and push this window over to the left so we do not actually loose visibility on anything. We are currently using -- bold, I am just going to drop that back to regular for a second to make it a bit thinner. I am setting my type around 20 pixels in height. I may as well go ahead and turn on optical churning, and the tracking is currently set to 50, I might just push that out a little bit more. Maybe about 75 just add a bit of space in there, and then once again I am going to change the color and also bolden up some of the type. So first off, just go ahead and click on the color swatch here once again to bring up the color picker. And go ahead and choose relatively dark grey and let us go for round about 160 or so. It should show up very well on our white background, we say okay that type is now all been converted into grey. What we are going to do now is click and just highlight the name here on the right hand side. We are now going to make that much more visible. Let us go ahead and make it bold text just by choosing that and once again reset the color to black. Now if we go back over to the main selection tool in the tools pallet here, the text can now be dragged down and placed in the lower right hand side of this area. Now once again I am keeping it inside the title safe area right here and that should get it into just the right position. Now just to tidy up the interface, I am going to come back up here and close the character pallet and go ahead and close paragraph, and our comp window now expands again. And with our time indicator at the start of this layer and I want to tell After Effects to animate those words on screen for me. I do not want to have to separate them out individually, and then apply key frames to slide them on. Well, thankfully there are presets that will do this for us. If we come over to the right hand side and you will see the effects and presets pallet. I am just going to scale up the window here so we can see a longer list, because at the top of that list you have a folder chord animation presets. If you drop that down there are whole bunch of presets that now ship with After Effects 7 right down here at the text ones, if you twirl that open those are all broken down into subcategories and what we are trying to do is animate our text into the screen. So if we twirl that down we have a whole set of preset animations. I am going to choose a very simple one which is simply called “Straight in by word”. That simply means that each word will be separated out and have position key frames applied to move it on

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Now something else that we want to add to this animation which should make it look quite good is another piece of type down here in the lower right hand side that perhaps says, you know, “Who is starring in your TV show” or whatever it is you want to do in there. And then we can animate the text using a preset that comes with After Effects.

So just scrub the timeline back, we are actually on the text on screen for quite some time. Let us bring you back to round about where you see number six at here on the top of the timeline which is about 4 seconds and 7 frames and we will create a brand new text layer. Now one of the quickest ways to do that is simply go to the layer menu, go down and choose new and select text.

This will add a text layer you can see in the timeline and there is in fact a small cursor flashing in the center of the screen, not very visible but if you do start to type you will see that the character start to appear. I am just going to type in the words “featuring” and then put whatever name you want after that. This is your TV program. I will go ahead and put my own name in there.

Now by default, my type options are set to black types. It is not very visible at the moment on this background but we will change that. Now with that type selected just by pressing Command A, we are going to come up to the control bar across the top here and click the small pallet icon which will activate the text pallets. Once again you will see that they are kind of slotted in to the interface here and push this window over to the left so we do not actually loose visibility on anything.

We are currently using -- bold, I am just going to drop that back to regular for a second to make it a bit thinner. I am setting my type around 20 pixels in height. I may as well go ahead and turn on optical churning, and the tracking is currently set to 50, I might just push that out a little bit more. Maybe about 75 just add a bit of space in there, and then once again I am going to change the color and also bolden up some of the type.

So first off, just go ahead and click on the color swatch here once again to bring up the color picker. And go ahead and choose relatively dark grey and let us go for round about 160 or so. It should show up very well on our white background, we say okay that type is now all been converted into grey.

What we are going to do now is click and just highlight the name here on the right hand side. We are now going to make that much more visible. Let us go ahead and make it bold text just by choosing that and once again reset the color to black.

Now if we go back over to the main selection tool in the tools pallet here, the text can now be dragged down and placed in the lower right hand side of this area. Now once again I am keeping it inside the title safe area right here and that should get it into just the right position.

Now just to tidy up the interface, I am going to come back up here and close the character pallet and go ahead and close paragraph, and our comp window now expands again. And with our time indicator at the start of this layer and I want to tell After Effects to animate those words on screen for me.

I do not want to have to separate them out individually, and then apply key frames to slide them on. Well, thankfully there are presets that will do this for us. If we come over to the right hand side and you will see the effects and presets pallet. I am just going to scale up the window here so we can see a longer list, because at the top of that list you have a folder chord animation presets.

If you drop that down there are whole bunch of presets that now ship with After Effects 7 right down here at the text ones, if you twirl that open those are all broken down into subcategories and what we are trying to do is animate our text into the screen. So if we twirl that down we have a whole set of preset animations.

I am going to choose a very simple one which is simply called “Straight in by word”. That simply means that each word will be separated out and have position key frames applied to move it on

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