Adobe After Effects CC Classroom in a Book (2019 Release), First Edition

4. Click the triangle to expand the Render Settings options. By default, After Effects renders compositions with Best Quality an ...

11. Save and close the project file, and then quit After Effects. Congratulations. You’ve created a travel show ID suitable for ...

3 Animating Text Lesson overview In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following: Create and animate text layers. Stylize t ...

PROJECT: MOVIE TITLE SEQUENCE Your type doesn’t need to sit still while your audience is reading it. In this lesson, you’ll lear ...

As you start the application, restore the default settings for After Effects. See “Restoring default preferences” on page 3. 3. ...

Drag the background_movie.mov and compass.swf footage items from the Project panel to the Timeline panel. Arrange the layers so ...

4. Choose File > Save. You’re ready to add the title text to the composition. About text layers In After Effects, you can add ...

Using your own text as the sample text lets you get a feel for how a font will work in your project. You can browse fonts on the ...

Adobe Fonts displays several fonts that meet the requirements you specified. 5. Browse a few pages worth of fonts to see what’s ...

for Adobe Fonts to activate your fonts. 7. Click Activate Font next to the Regular and Bold versions of the font. The selected f ...

The Character panel provides options for formatting characters. If text is highlighted, changes you make in the Character panel ...

indentation, and leading. For point text, each line is a separate paragraph. You can use the Paragraph panel to set formatting o ...

5. When the layer is in position, choose View > Show Grid again to hide the grid. This project isn’t destined for broadcast T ...

5. Preview the Evaporate preset, and then double-click its thumbnail preview. Alternatively, you can right-click (Windows) or Co ...

Customizing an animation preset After you apply an animation preset to a layer, all of its properties and keyframes are listed i ...

Animating with scale keyframes The text layer was scaled to nearly 200% when you applied the Fit To Comp Width command to it ear ...

The beginning and end of the scale animation are rather abrupt. In nature, nothing comes to an absolute stop. Instead, objects e ...

Move the current-time indicator to 9:29 so you can clearly see the compass in the Composition panel. In the Composition pane ...

layer can be a parent to any number of 2D or 3D layers within the same composition. Parenting layers is useful for creating comp ...

imported text. So, first you’ll clean up the type. 1. Double-click the credits composition in the Project panel to open it in it ...