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

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3 Animating Text


Getting started
About text layers
Installing a font using Adobe Fonts
Creating and formatting point text
Using a text animation preset
Animating with scale keyframes
Animating using parenting
Animating imported Photoshop text
Animating type tracking
Animating text opacity
Using a text animator group
Animating a layer’s position
Timing layer animations
Adding motion blur
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4 Working with Shape Layers


Getting started
Creating the composition
Adding a shape layer
Applying a fill and stroke
Creating a self-animating shape
Duplicating a shape
Creating custom shapes
Positioning layers with snapping
Snapping layers into position
Animating a shape
Animating fill color
Creating nulls from paths
Drawing curved shapes with the Pen tool
Using nulls to connect points
Previewing the composition
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5 Animating a Multimedia Presentation


Getting started
Adjusting anchor points
Parenting layers
Precomposing layers
Keyframing a motion path
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