Tip
If you don’t see the Effects & Presets tab, choose Window > Effects & Presets.2. Select the Effects & Presets tab to display the Effects & Presets panel. Then type fade up
words in the search box.
3. Select the Fade Up Words effect in the Animate In category, and drag it onto the on the
move text in the Composition panel.After Effects adds the effect. Because it’s a simple effect, there are no settings in the Effect
Controls panel.
4. Manually preview the effect by dragging the current-time indicator from 0:00 to 1:00. The
words fade in, so that they are all onscreen by 1:00.About timecode and duration
The primary concept related to time is duration, or length. Each footage item, layer, and
composition in a project has its own duration, which is reflected in the beginning and
ending times displayed in the time rulers in the Composition, Layer, and Timeline panels.
The way you view and specify time in After Effects depends on the display style, or unit of
measure, that you use to describe time. By default, After Effects displays time in Society of
Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) timecode: hours, minutes, seconds, and
frames. Note that the figures are separated by semicolons in the After Effects interface,
representing drop-frame timecode (which adjusts for the real-time frame rate), but this book
uses a colon to represent non-drop-frame timecode.