Animating text opacity

Customizing the tracking animation preset

The text expands, but you want the letters to be so close initially that they’re on top of each other, and then to expand to a reasonable, readable distance apart. The animation should also occur faster. You’ll adjust the Tracking Amount to achieve both goals.

1 Select the Your Name Here layer in the Timeline panel, and press UU to reveal the properties that were modified.

2 Go to 7:10.

3 Under Animator 1, change the Tracking Amount to -5 so that the letters are squeezed together.

4 Click the Go To Next Keyframe arrow () for the Tracking Amount property, and then change the value to 0.

5 Drag the current-time indicator across the time ruler between 7:10 and 8:10. The letters expand as they appear onscreen, and stop animating at the last keyframe.

You’ll take the animation of the director’s name a little further by having it fade onscreen as the letters expand. To do this, you’ll animate the layer’s Opacity property.

1 Select the Your Name Here layer in the Credits timeline.

2 Press T to reveal only the layer’s Opacity property.

3 Go to 7:10, and set the Opacity to 0%. Then click the stopwatch icon () to set an Opacity keyframe.

4 Go to 7:20, and set the Opacity to 100%. After Effects adds a second keyframe. Now, the letters of the director’s name should fade in as they expand onscreen.

5 Drag the current-time indicator across the time ruler between 7:10 and 8:10 to see the letters of the director’s name fade in as they spread out.

6 Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the ending Opacity keyframe, and choose Keyframe Assistant > Easy Ease In.

7 Choose File > Save.

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