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Animate menu
3 In the Timeline panel, adjust the animator property values. Often, you simply set the property that you want to
animate to its ending value and then use the selectors to control everything else.
Expand the Range Selector property group and set keyframes for Start or End properties by clicking the stopwatch
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for the property and doing one of the following:
• Set the values for Start and End in the Timeline panel.
• Drag the selector bars in the Composition panel. The pointer changes to the selector movement pointer
it is over the middle of a selector bar.
5 To refine the selection, expand Advanced and specify options and values as desired.
Work with animator properties
Animator properties work much like other layer properties, except that their values only influence the characters that
are selected by the animator group's selectors. Choose Enable Per-Character 3D to add 3D properties to a text layer;
this does not add properties to an animator group.
• To add an animator group to a text layer, select the text layer in the Timeline panel, and choose a property from
the Animation > Animate Text menu or from the layer's Animate menu in the Switches/Modes column in the
Timeline panel. A new animator group, along with a default selector and the chosen animator property, appears
in the Timeline panel.
• To add a new animator property to an existing animator group, select the animator group in the Timeline panel,
and choose the property from Animation > Animate Text menu or from the animator group's Add menu in the
Timeline panel. The new animator property appears within the same group as the existing animator property and
shares the existing selectors.
• To delete an animator property or animator group, select it in the Timeline panel and press Delete.
• To remove animators from a text layer, select the text layer in the Timeline panel, and choose Animation > Remove
All Text Animators.
• To copy an animator group, select it in the Timeline panel and choose Edit > Copy. To paste the an animator group,
select a layer and choose Edit > Paste.
• To rename an animator group, make sure that it is the only thing selected, and then press Enter (Windows) or
Return (Mac OS).
• To reorder an animator group, drag it to a new location in the stacking order in the Timeline panel.
Animator properties
Anchor point for the characters. This is the point about which transformations—such as scaling and
Anchor Point
rotation—are performed.
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