Lesson overview. 1How do you use Adobe Bridge to preview and import files?

ANIMATING TEXT

Laboratory work 3

Review answers

Review Questions

1 How do you use Adobe Bridge to preview and import files?

2 What is precomposing?

3 How do you customize an effect?

4 How do you modify the transparency of a layer in a composition?

1 Choose File > Browse In Bridge to jump from After Effects to Adobe Bridge, where you can search for and preview image assets. When you locate the asset you want to use in an After Effects project, double-click it or drag it to the Project panel.

2 Precomposing is a way to nest layers within a composition. Precomposing moves the layers to a new composition, which takes the place of the selected layers. When you want to change the order in which layer components are rendered, precomposing is a quick way to create intermediate levels of nesting in an existing hierarchy.

3 After you apply an effect to a layer in a composition, you can customize its properties in the Effect Controls panel. This panel opens automatically when you apply the effect, or you can open it at any time by selecting the layer with the effect and choosing Window > Effect Controls.

4 To modify the transparency of a layer, reduce its opacity. Select the layer in the Timeline panel, press T to reveal its Opacity property, and enter a value lower than 100%.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

􀁴 Create and animate text layers.

􀁴 Stylize text using the Character and Paragraph panels.

􀁴 Animate text using animation presets.

􀁴 Preview animation presets in Adobe Bridge.

􀁴 Customize an animation preset.

􀁴 Animate text using keyframes.

􀁴 Animate layers using parenting.

􀁴 Edit and animate imported Adobe Photoshop text.

􀁴 Use a text animator group to animate selected characters on a layer.

􀁴 Apply a text animation to a graphic object.

􀁴 Import SWF files.

􀁴 Export a project for further work in Adobe Flash Professional.

This lesson will take approximately 2 hours to complete. Copy the Lesson03 folder into the Lessons folder that you created on your hard drive for these projects (or create it now), if you haven’t already done so. As you work on this lesson, you’ll preserve the start files. If you need to restore the start files, copy them from the Adobe After Effects CS5 Classroom in a Book DVD.

Your type doesn’t need to sit still while your audience is reading it. In this lesson, you’ll learn several ways to animate type in After Eff ects, including timesaving methods unique to text layers.

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