Create text
Create, manipulate, and animate text in a composition.
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Learning Outcomes:
- Create point and paragraph text in After Effects.
- Add text to a path using masks.
Level: Intermediate
Skills you'll gain:
After Effects, Text, Animation, Masking
Key Insights
- Point text is created by clicking and typing directly.
- Paragraph text requires dragging to create a text box.
- Text behavior differs between point text and paragraph text.
- Text on a path requires the text layer to be created first.
- Masks are paths, but not all paths create transparency.
- Margins in After Effects are referred to as first and last.
- Text alignment affects how margins function in animations.
- Force alignment can change how text is positioned on a path.
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