Adobe 65008009 - After Effects CS4 Using Manual page 38

Last updated 12/21/2009
5 Set an initial keyframe for the Position property:
• Click the triangle to the left of the layer name in the Timeline panel, click the triangle to the left of the Transform
group name, and then click the stopwatch button
• Press Alt+Shift+P (Windows) or Option+Shift+P (Mac OS).
Activate the Selection tool:
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• Click the Selection Tool button in the Tools panel.
• Press V.
Using the Selection tool, drag your text to the bottom-left corner of the frame in the Composition panel.
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8 Move the current-time indicator to the last frame of the composition:
• Drag the current-time indicator in the Timeline panel to the far right of the timeline.
• Press End.
9 Using the Selection tool, drag your text to the top-right corner of the frame in the Composition panel.
A new keyframe is created at this time for the Position property. Motion is interpolated between keyframe values.
Preview your animation using standard preview:
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• Click the Play button
• Press the spacebar. Press the spacebar again to stop the preview.
11 Apply the Glow effect:
• Choose Effect > Stylize > Glow.
• Type glow in the search field at the top of the Effects & Presets panel to find the Glow effect. Double-click the effect name.
Add your composition to the render queue:
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• Choose Composition > Add To Render Queue.
• Press Ctrl+Shift+/ (Windows) or Command+Shift+/ (Mac OS).
In the Render Queue panel, click the underlined text to the right of Output To. In the Output Movie To dialog box,
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choose a name and location for the output movie file, and then click Save. For the location, choose something easy
to find, like your desktop.
14 Click the Render button to process all items in the render queue. The Render Queue panel shows the progress of
the rendering operation. A sound is generated when rendering is complete.
You've created, rendered, and exported a movie.
You can import the movie that you've created and preview it in After Effects, or you can navigate to the movie and play
it using a movie player such as QuickTime Player, Windows Media Player, or Adobe Bridge.
More Help topics
"Keyboard shortcuts" on page 738
"Import footage items" on page 70
"General workflow in After
in the Preview panel. Click Play again to stop the preview.
Effects" on page 30
to the left of the Position property name.
USING AFTER EFFECTS CS4
Workflows, planning, and setup
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