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

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12. Click the stopwatch icon ( ) to create an initial keyframe for the Position property.
13. Go to 2:03. Change the Position property to –7115, 1800 , –1150, or use the Selection and
Rotation tools to position it as it appears in the image below.

14. Manually scroll through the timeline to preview the text. Then close any open properties,
and choose File > Save to save your work so far.

Creating additional text elements


You created the initial text for the advertisement. Now you need to perform the same tasks to
create the rest of the ad. You’ll use the same steps to create each label, but because the text
appears in different places in the video and needs to shift in relationship to the scene, you’ll need
to use different position, orientation, and scaling values.


1. Go to 2:03.
2. In the Timeline panel, select the Shoreline.mov layer, and press E to reveal its effects. Then
select the 3D Camera Tracker to make it active.

Note
Make sure you select the 3D Camera Tracker effect in the Shoreline.mov layer, not
the 3D Tracker Camera layer.

3. In the Effect Controls panel, change the Track Point Size value to 50% so you can see the
track points more clearly.
4. Make sure the Selection tool is selected. Then, in the Composition panel, hover over an area
so that the red target lies flat across the rocks, right-click or Control-click the target, and
choose Create Text.
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