Examples Of Text Animation - Adobe AFTER EFFECTS CS3 PROFESSIONAL User Manual

Text path properties
Use the Path Options properties to specify a path and alter the way that individual characters appear on the path—
perpendicular to the path, aligned to the left or right, reversed, and so on. Animating Path Options properties is an
easy way to animate text along a path.
Reverses the direction of the path.
Reverse Path
Rotates each character so that it is perpendicular to the path.
Perpendicular To Path
Positions the first character at the beginning of the path (or at the specified First Margin location),
Force Alignment
positions the last character at the end of the path (or at the specified Last Margin location), and evenly spaces the
remaining characters between the first and last characters.
Specifies the position of the first character in pixels, relative to the start of the path. First Margin is
First Margin
ignored when text is right-aligned and Force Alignment is Off.
Specifies the position of the last character in pixels, relative to the end of the path. Last Margin is
Last Margin
ignored when text is left-aligned and Force Alignment is Off.

Examples of text animation

Example: Animate characters with per-character 3D properties
This example illustrates how you can easily animate individual characters in 3D so that each character steps out of
line and takes a bow.
Create a new composition.
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Create a new text layer with the word ovation.
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Choose Animation > Animate Text > Enable Per-character 3D.
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Choose Animation > Animate Text > Position.
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5 Choose Animation > Animate Text > Rotation.
In the Timeline panel, in the Animator group, set the X Rotation property to 45, and set the Position value to (0.0,
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0.0, -100.0).
7 Expand Range Selector 1.
Click the stopwatch icon for the Offset property to set an initial keyframe with the value at 0 seconds.
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Set the Offset property value to -15%.
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Set the End property value to 15%.
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Move the current-time indicator to 10 seconds, and set the Offset value to 100%.
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12 Press the R key to show the Rotation properties for the entire layer.
Set the Y Rotation value for the layer to -45. This rotates the entire layer so that you can more easily see the 3D
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motion of the characters.
14 Preview the composition.
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