Browsing animation presets

Using a text animation preset

Now you’re ready to animate the title. The easiest way to do that is to use one of the many animation presets that come with After Effects. After applying an animation preset, you can customize it and save it to use again in other projects.

1 Press the Home key or go to 0:00 to make sure the current-time indicator is at the beginning of the time ruler. After Effects applies animation presets from the current time.

2 Select the Road Trip text layer.

You already applied an animation preset in Lesson 2, “Creating a Basic Animation Using Effects and Presets.” But what if you’re not sure which animation preset you want to use? To help you choose the right animation preset for your projects, you can preview them in Adobe Bridge.

1 Choose Animation > Browse Presets. Adobe Bridge opens, displaying the contents of the After Effects Presets folder.

2 In the Content panel, double-click the Text folder, and then the Blurs folder.

3 Click to select the first preset, Blur By Word. Adobe Bridge plays a sample of the animation in the Preview panel.

4 Select a few other presets, and watch them in the Preview panel.

5 Preview the Evaporate preset, and then double-click its thumbnail preview. Alternatively, you can right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the thumbnail and choose Place In After Effects. After Effects applies the preset to the selected layer, which is the Road Trip layer. Nothing appears to change in the composition. This is because at 0:00, the first frame of the animation, the letters haven’t yet evaporated.

_ Note: Leave Adobe Bridge open in the background. You’ll use it again later in the lesson.

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