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

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2. Select the Horizontal Type tool ( ) in the Tools panel.

After Effects adds the Character and Paragraph panels to the stack and opens the Character
panel.


3. In the Character panel, select the following settings:
Font: Futura PT Heavy Oblique
Fill Color: White
Stroke: None
Font Size: 140 px
Leading: 70 px
Tracking: 20 %
Vertical Scale: 65 %

Note
If Futura PT is not available, install it using Adobe Fonts. Choose File > Add Fonts
From Adobe, search for Futura PT, and activate the font. Once you’ve activated the
font, it will be available in all applications on your system, but you may need to
close the Character panel and reopen it to see a newly activated font.

4. Select All Caps. (You may need to drag the bottom of the Character panel to extend it in
order to see all settings.)
5. Open the Paragraph panel, and select the Center Text alignment option.
6. Click anywhere in the Composition panel and type Lunar. Then press Enter or Return and
type Landing, and then press Enter or Return again and type Media, so that each word is
on its own line, as in the image below.

7. Select the Selection tool ( ).
8. In the Timeline panel, expand the Transform properties for the Lunar Landing Media layer,
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