Adobe 65008009 - After Effects CS4 Using Manual page 372

Last updated 12/21/2009
13 Set the Y Rotation value for the layer to -45, rotating the entire layer so that you can more easily see the 3D motion
of the characters.
Preview the composition.
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Example: Offset characters
This example illustrates how you can easily animate random characters so that they gradually form a legible word or
phrase by specifying a Character Offset value and animating the range selector.
Animating the offset values for the characters in the word Galaxy
Create a new composition.
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2 Create a new text layer with the word Galaxy.
Choose Animation > Animate Text > Character Offset.
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In the Timeline panel, set the Character Offset value to 5.
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Expand Range Selector 1.
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Click the Start stopwatch to set an initial keyframe at 0 seconds and set the value to 0%.
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7 Move the current-time indicator to 5 seconds and set the Start value to 100%.
Set Character Alignment to Center.
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9 Preview the composition.
More Help topics
"Create a composition" on page 55
"Enter point text" on page 343
"Text selectors" on page 358
"Set or add keyframes" on page 214
"Preview video and audio" on page 195
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