• Adobe After Effects

  Text animation presets

  Posted by Patrick on December 14, 2006 at 5:48 pm

  Just upgraded to AE7 pro (the Creative Suite premium version)and I’m trying to play around with the text animation presets. But none of them seem to work. I’ve noticed that there is an asterisk on the >*Animation Presets in the Effects and Presets panel.

  What am I missing?

  Thanks

  Patrick replied 19 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Mark

  December 14, 2006 at 6:42 pm

  Not sure why they wouldn’t work….they work fine here….

  Mark
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  Patrick

  December 14, 2006 at 6:56 pm

  Let me try it this way…

  If I want to use the Center spiral preset what do I do. Walk me through. I’m usually not so confused about these things but the drag and drop thing doesn’t seem to apply any changes to my text.

  Do I use path text to create the text, then apply the preset? What is the order of events.

  Thanks
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  Mylenium

  December 14, 2006 at 9:47 pm

  Umm, you create a text layer with the text tool and apply the preset. not sure why you don’t understand the concept. Sounds like you aren’t even aware of those architectural changes in AE ever since v6.

  Mylenium

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  Patrick

  December 15, 2006 at 2:56 am

  Thanks! The text tool was what I was missing. I was trying to use the text filter to create the text, then apply the preset to that layer. That wasn’t working.

  I didn’t update to 6.5 so the text tool was not part of my text animation toolbox.

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