Overview
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Learn how to create professional-looking type plus sophisticated type animations, including timing to music.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Overview
- Software versions and exercise files
- Setting up
- Entering, editing, and styling type
- Using strokes
- Working with paragraph text
- Setting a title
- Creating a text animator
- Selecting by character vs. percent
- Animating position
- Animating more properties
- Exploring text transitions
- Randomizing order
- The Cascade recipe
- Exploring offset plus selection shapes
- Working with ramp selection shapes
- Using character anchor points
- Further refinements
- Working with selections based on words
- Anchor point grouping
- Multiple ranger selectors
- Using a vertical blur treatment
- Animated tracking
- Working with text on a path
- Per-character 3D overview
- Enabling per-character 3D
- Exploring per-character 3D
- Ease high and Ease low
- Separating fields
- Exploring wiggly options
- Animating wiggles
- Rendering with alpha channels
- Multiple animators
- Adding audio
- Audio levels
- Spotting hit points
- Timing to audio
- Spotting dialogue
- Timing dialogue to music
- Mixing audio
- Exploring audio refinements
- Applying text presets
- Browsing presets in Bridge
- Editing presets
- Saving presets
- Working with Photoshop text
- Keyframing source text
- The Buzz Words preset
- Rendering with alpha channels
- Exploring faux styling options
- Tracking and kerning
- Using smart quotes
- Using hyphens and dashes
