Can’t get Text—Effects & Presets—to apply, keep getting error

[Todd Kopriva]

You shouldn’t be trying to import the animation preset. You should be applying it. See the instructions on this page for several ways to apply animation presets. If one doesn’t work, please give a click-by-click account of what you’re doing that isn’t working.

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[Martin Jordan]

Well, in the Creative Cow Total training series ON AE the lady teacher—I believe she’s from Adobe—shows in the tutorial that’s how you do it.

You type some text, browse presets, goes to Bridge, you preview what preset effect you want and then dbl. click it and it applies to your text.

But, I have found another way to to apply it.

Thanks.

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[David Reilly]

I have the same problem, this worked in cs3 but not in cs4, I thought
the idea with bridge was to be able to see and “apply” the effects
to you text etc in AE with a double click on the effect in bridge.
That error message is a pain!