After Effects Apprentice: 06 Type and Music

Learn how to create professional-looking type plus sophisticated type animations, including timing to music.

Introduction

• Overview
• Software versions and exercise files

1. Creating Type

• Setting up
• Entering, editing, and styling type
• Using strokes
• Working with paragraph text

2. Animating Type

• Setting a title
• Creating a text animator
• Selecting by character vs. percent
• Animating position
• Animating more properties
• Exploring text transitions
• Randomizing order

3. Cascading Type

• The Cascade recipe
• Exploring offset plus selection shapes
• Working with ramp selection shapes
• Using character anchor points
• Further refinements

4. Animating by Words

• Working with selections based on words
• Anchor point grouping
• Multiple ranger selectors

5. Flowing Text

• Using a vertical blur treatment
• Animated tracking
• Working with text on a path

6. Per-Character 3D

• Per-character 3D overview
• Enabling per-character 3D
• Exploring per-character 3D
• Ease high and Ease low

7. The Wiggly Selector (and More)

• Separating fields
• Exploring wiggly options
• Animating wiggles
• Rendering with alpha channels
• Multiple animators

8. Working With Audio

• Adding audio
• Audio levels
• Spotting hit points
• Timing to audio
• Spotting dialogue
• Timing dialogue to music
• Mixing audio
• Exploring audio refinements

9. Using Text Presets

• Applying text presets
• Browsing presets in Bridge
• Editing presets
• Saving presets

10. Sidebars

• Working with Photoshop text
• Keyframing source text
• The Buzz Words preset
• Rendering with alpha channels

11. Typesetting Tips

• Exploring faux styling options
• Tracking and kerning
• Using smart quotes
• Using hyphens and dashes