ARTV 2341-Advanced Digital Video
Robert Flowers, Instructor
Horizontal Type Tool (Point Type)
- All Text is created in its own layer
- Text Box = Click + drag
Character Panel
- Fonts, size, color stroke (Stroke over fill “default”, Fill over stroke)
- Letting = Vertical space between lines
- Tracking = Space between groups of characters or entire blocks of text
- Kerning = Space between pairs of characters
Paragraph Panel
- Align = center
Align Panel = Aligns any asset selected in composition
Presets: Behaviors (built in fades, various animations etcetera)
Effects Presets (fly-out menu) = Browse Presets…(opens Adobe Bridge) make sure text was pre-selected in composition and the Current Time Indicator is in the desired location
- Text folder = Preview animated text
Text Layer
- Animate: (fly-out menu) = choose property to be animated (e.g. Scale)
- Creates Animation Property = Range Selector = property (e.g. Scale)
- (e.g. Scale) Scales up each character individually
- Range Selector ONLY affects what is contained within it
- Add: adds another property to the range selector