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After Effects Apprentice: 06 Type and Music

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Course Description

Overview

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

Syllabus

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

Taught by

Chris Meyer and Trish Meyer

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