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  • Tracking a text layer from the center of layer

    Posted by Aaron D hose on May 23, 2005 at 6:38 pm

    Was wondering…. how to make a text layer’s text track apart from the center as opposed to from the left side, which is the AE default behavior. thx guys.

    Al Avery replied 12 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Aaron D hose

    May 23, 2005 at 6:39 pm

    Oops…BTW–I’m using AE 6.5 pro bundle.

  • Hank

    May 23, 2005 at 8:48 pm

    select your text. go to your Window menu and choose Paragraph.
    In the Paragraph window you choose “center text”.

  • Al Avery

    October 18, 2013 at 3:24 pm

    I realize that this is an old post, but since I figured this out I thought I’d share. If you’re goal is to have centered text and the tracking start loose and compress to the center, set your animator Start and End keyframes to 0% and to 100%, respectively. Where your animation ends set both the Start and End to 50%.

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