Create text

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[00:00:00] certification preparation series of

[00:00:00] videos I'm Louisa Winters in this video

[00:00:00] I want to cover objective

[00:00:00] 4.2 a which is to create text in a

[00:00:00] composition so we're going to talk about

[00:00:00] Point text and paragraph text we're

[00:00:00] going to talk about adding text to a

[00:00:00] path all right so here we go let's get

[00:00:00] us started here in After Effects go

[00:00:00] ahead and create a new composition so

[00:00:00] controller command n and there you go

[00:00:00] and now let's go ahead and type some

[00:00:00] text to do that grab the type tool which

[00:00:00] is this guy if you click and hold on

[00:00:00] that tool you're going to see two tools

[00:00:00] the horizontal type tool and the

[00:00:00] vertical type tool I'm not going to go

[00:00:00] over the vertical well actually okay so

[00:00:00] you can type

[00:00:00] vertical whatever right yeah I know

[00:00:00] right so I'm going to undo that

[00:00:00] and instead I want to type horizontal

[00:00:00] now

[00:00:00] in Adobe world and and other apps right

[00:00:00] you can have two types of text you can

[00:00:00] have Point text which means you simply

[00:00:00] click

[00:00:00] and type

[00:00:00] right click and type that's Point text

[00:00:00] if you then change the scale of this

[00:00:00] say it you are changing the scale of the

[00:00:00] type right all right now you can also

[00:00:00] have paragraph text which means you

[00:00:00] click and drag a text box and you type

[00:00:00] Inside the Box

[00:00:00] and you can resize the Box

[00:00:00] the text behavior is going to be

[00:00:00] slightly different as you can clearly

[00:00:00] see depending on whether you have

[00:00:00] paragraph text or you have Point text so

[00:00:00] keep those things in mind and usually

[00:00:00] not always but usually if I have a

[00:00:00] designer in my class that is doing text

[00:00:00] the designer will always always do a

[00:00:00] text box

[00:00:00] if I have a video editor in the class

[00:00:00] that video editor is just going to click

[00:00:00] and type

[00:00:00] so you know the difference is really the

[00:00:00] behavior of the text uh as you're typing

[00:00:00] so which one is better I sure don't know

[00:00:00] sometimes I use one and sometimes I use

[00:00:00] the other one so it makes no difference

[00:00:00] to me but if you're a designer I'm sure

[00:00:00] you're thinking to yourself right now oh

[00:00:00] that is preposterous it needs to be a

[00:00:00] text box you know what

[00:00:00] go for it make it a text box alright so

[00:00:00] let's continue so you can have Point

[00:00:00] text you can have paragraph text you can

[00:00:00] also have text on a path

[00:00:00] but this is the thing if you are used to

[00:00:00] photoshop or illustrator for that matter

[00:00:00] you already know that to have text on a

[00:00:00] path you have to have the path first

[00:00:00] in After Effects it doesn't work like

[00:00:00] that because if you start drawing the

[00:00:00] path

[00:00:00] you know with the pen tool with whatever

[00:00:00] of these you are creating a shape layer

[00:00:00] so you need to have the layer first

[00:00:00] all right you need to have the text

[00:00:00] first then you can have the path so I'm

[00:00:00] just gonna type I'm going to use Point

[00:00:00] text don't hate me I'm going to use

[00:00:00] Point text I'm going to I'm going to use

[00:00:00] text on a path right I'm going to double

[00:00:00] click this layer and I'm going to make

[00:00:00] it a little bit smaller so that we can

[00:00:00] see it we're going to talk about those

[00:00:00] settings a little bit later uh actually

[00:00:00] in the next movie and now that I have

[00:00:00] the layer

[00:00:00] I can have my path and I know a path is

[00:00:00] a mask a mask is a path but not really

[00:00:00] because a path

[00:00:00] doesn't quite create transparency

[00:00:00] but I'm asked thus so let's create a

[00:00:00] mask which is a path which is a mask

[00:00:00] which is whatever right so I'm just

[00:00:00] going to do this and I'm gonna do a

[00:00:00] perfect circle and there you have it

[00:00:00] right

[00:00:00] I am asking it

[00:00:00] yeah but it's okay because what we want

[00:00:00] is text on a path so here we go expand

[00:00:00] text in the timeline expand the path

[00:00:00] options and do you see where it says

[00:00:00] path and then none

[00:00:00] click on that drop down and choose the

[00:00:00] one and only mask that you have boom

[00:00:00] there you go text on a path

[00:00:00] and it doesn't have to be a mask like

[00:00:00] that by the way look at the transparency

[00:00:00] of the Mask immediately turned to none

[00:00:00] all right so that's done automatically

[00:00:00] and it doesn't have to be a circle it

[00:00:00] could just be anything that you create

[00:00:00] could be a star could be anything at all

[00:00:00] so we already have talked about that I'm

[00:00:00] not going to go over that again but it

[00:00:00] could be anything right so there are

[00:00:00] these things that come

[00:00:00] uh with now that we have text on a path

[00:00:00] reverse path I can turn that on or off

[00:00:00] I'm thinking that's pretty

[00:00:00] self-explanatory inside of the path

[00:00:00] outside inside outside right

[00:00:00] I'm Gonna Leave It Off perpendicular

[00:00:00] it's each and every character going to

[00:00:00] be perpendicular to the path which is

[00:00:00] what it is now

[00:00:00] or not

[00:00:00] oh that's crazy so I'm gonna turn it on

[00:00:00] Force alignment boom

[00:00:00] yeah I'm gonna shut that off too

[00:00:00] first margin

[00:00:00] oh

[00:00:00] I know what I am animating

[00:00:00] I know right pretty cool but look what

[00:00:00] happens to the last margin is doing

[00:00:00] nothing nothing

[00:00:00] know this the reason why these are doing

[00:00:00] nothing is because there is no such

[00:00:00] thing as a first margin that doesn't

[00:00:00] exist I mean a first margin first as

[00:00:00] opposed to second third fourth yeah they

[00:00:00] don't exist there's not a first one or a

[00:00:00] last one there's only a right one and I

[00:00:00] left one

[00:00:00] let me put it to you this way I'm going

[00:00:00] to do something a little bit different

[00:00:00] I'll do uh this is my text right and now

[00:00:00] I'm going to draw a mask like Yay right

[00:00:00] so same thing right uh text path options

[00:00:00] choose mask one right

[00:00:00] look at the first margin which is really

[00:00:00] the left margin right I can animate that

[00:00:00] and then my text is just going to go

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[00:00:00] so I'm gonna undo that same thing the

[00:00:00] last margin is not working the reason

[00:00:00] for that has to do with a paragraph

[00:00:00] setting if we are left aligned

[00:00:00] then only the left margin Works which

[00:00:00] After Effects calls first margin so

[00:00:00] there is no first margin there's only a

[00:00:00] left margin so if I have this right

[00:00:00] aligned then the last margin works and

[00:00:00] the first one doesn't because there

[00:00:00] again there is no such thing as first

[00:00:00] and last there's only left and right

[00:00:00] I'm just saying right if this is Center

[00:00:00] aligned they both work boom boom boom

[00:00:00] boom boom boom

[00:00:00] if Force alignment is turned on they

[00:00:00] both work

[00:00:00] and I can just squish them all together

[00:00:00] I can now keyframe this here and then

[00:00:00] separate them like yay and like yay and

[00:00:00] now I can have animation

[00:00:00] like that

[00:00:00] right so

[00:00:00] one of the first things that I want you

[00:00:00] to remember in After Effects is that

[00:00:00] After Effects likes to use words like

[00:00:00] first and last

[00:00:00] and beginning and end that sort of thing

[00:00:00] don't think of it as first and last or

[00:00:00] beginning and end think of it as left

[00:00:00] and right or

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[00:00:00] anything else that would help you

[00:00:00] remember how to keyframe these things

[00:00:00] all right so we have talked about Point

[00:00:00] text paragraph text and of course text

[00:00:00] on a path and this brings me to the end

[00:00:00] of this video so thank you for watching

[00:00:00] and I'll see you on the next video

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[00:00:00] thank you