Animating the subtitle

You want the letters of the subtitle— an animated documentary —to fade onscreen from left to right under the movie title. The easiest way to do this is to use another text animation preset.

1 Go to 5:00 in the timeline. At that point, the title and the compass have finished scaling to their final size.

2 Select the subtitle layer (layer 2) in the Timeline panel.

3 Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+O (Windows) or Command+Option+Shift+O (Mac OS) to jump to Adobe Bridge.

4 Navigate to the Presets/Text/Animate In folder.

5 Select the Fade Up Characters animation preset, and watch it in the Preview panel. This effect works well to reveal the text gradually.

6 Double-click the Fade Up Characters preset to apply it to the subtitle layer in After Effects.

7 With the subtitle layer selected in the Timeline panel, press UU to see the properties modified by the animation preset. You should see two keyframes for Range Selector 1 Start: one at 5:00, and one at 7:00.

You still have a lot of animation to do in this composition, so you will speed up the effect by 1 second.

8 Go to 6:00, and then drag the second Range Selector 1 Start keyframe to 6:00.

9 Drag the current-time indicator across the time ruler between 5:00 and 6:00 to see the letters fade in.

10 When you’re done, select the subtitle layer, and press U to hide the modified properties. Then choose File > Save to save your work.

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