The text is in position, but you want it to appear suddenly on the screen. You’ll trim the layers to
stagger their appearance.
17. Go to 2:03, select the ARE layer, and press Alt+[ (Windows) or Option+[ (macOS). Then
go to 3:10, select the Scrambling layer, and press Alt+[ or Option+[ again.
18. Close Properties. Choose File > Save to save your work.
19. Press the spacebar to preview the text animation. Press the spacebar again to stop playback.Locking an image to a plane with a solid layer
You created the advertising copy in After Effects, but the crabs’ expressions are in quotation
bubbles, which are easier to include as images. You’ll attach the PSD files to solid layers in
After Effects to lock them to specific planes.
1. Go to 6:06, select the Shoreline.mov layer in the Timeline panel, and select the 3D Camera
Tracker effect in the Effect Controls panel.
2. With the Selection tool, move the cursor so that the target is on a vertical plane as in the
image below. Right-click the target, and choose Create Solid.After Effects creates a Track Solid 1 layer, and a colorful solid square appears in the
Composition panel.