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Luisa Winters

Instructor and consultant for Adobe products

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Create text

Create, manipulate, and animate text in a composition.

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Learning Outcomes:

  • Create point and paragraph text in After Effects.
  • Add text to a path using masks.

Level: Intermediate

Skills you'll gain:

After Effects, Text, Animation, Masking

Key Insights

  • Point text is created by clicking and typing.
  • Paragraph text requires dragging a text box.
  • Text behavior differs between point and paragraph text.
  • Text on a path requires a path to be created first.
  • Masks are paths but do not create transparency.
  • Margins in After Effects are labeled as first and last.
  • Alignments affect how margins work in text settings.
  • Keyframe text properties for animation effects.

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