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You can add text to a composition using text layers. Text layers are useful for many purposes, including animated titles, lower thirds, credit rolls, and dynamic typography.
You can animate the properties of entire text layers or the properties of individual characters, such as color, size, and position. You animate text using text animator properties and selectors. 3D text layers can optionally contain 3D sublayers, one for each character. (See Animate text with text animators and Per-character 3D text properties.)
Text layers are synthetic layers, meaning that a text layer does not use a footage item as its source—though you can convert text information from some footage items into text layers. Text layers are also vector layers. As with shape layers and other vector layers, text layers are always continuously rasterized, so when you scale the layer or resize the text, it retains crisp, resolution-independent edges. You cannot open a text layer in its own Layer panel, but you can work with text layers in the Composition panel.
After Effects uses two kinds of text: point text and paragraph text. Point text is useful for entering a single word or a line of characters; paragraph text is useful for entering and formatting the text as one or more paragraphs.
Vertical and horizontal point text (left), and paragraph text in a bounding box (right)
You can copy text from other applications such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, or any text editor, and paste it into a text layer in After Effects. Because After Effects also supports Unicode characters, you can copy and paste these characters between After Effects and any other application that also supports Unicode (which includes all Adobe applications).
Text formatting is included in the Source Text property. Use the Source Text property to animate formatting and to change the characters themselves (for example, change the letter b to the letter c).
After Effects automatically synchronizes missing fonts using the available fonts. The Resolve Fonts dialog is displayed when you open a project that uses fonts that are not installed. If the fonts are available from Adobe, you can choose to have them automatically synced to your Creative Cloud account and installed. After Effects replaces fonts that are not available online with the default font.
With the April 2017 release of After Effects CC, installing After Effects does not install a set of fonts. The same fonts installed with previous versions of After Effects, such as Adobe Myriad Pro, are available as part of your Creative Cloud subscription through Adobe Fonts.
Sequential frames in which Source Text has been animated
Best practices for creating textand vector graphics for video
Text that looks good on your computer screen as youare creating it can sometimes look bad when viewed in a final outputmovie. These differences can arise from the device used to viewthe movie or from the compression scheme used to encode the movie.The same is true for other vector graphics, such as shapes in shapelayers. In fact, the same problems can occur in raster images, but thesmall and sharp details of vector graphics cause the problems mostoften.
Keep in mind the following as you create and animate text andvector graphics for video:
Apply the Autoscroll - Vertical animation preset in the Behaviors category to quickly create a vertical text crawl (for example, a credit roll).
Fortunately, many problems with text in video and compressedmovie formats can be solved with one simple technique: Apply a blurto the text layer. A slight blur can soften color transitions andcause thin horizontal elements to expand. The Reduce Interlace Flickereffect works best for the purpose of reducing twitter; it appliesa vertical directional blur but doesn't blur horizontally, so itdegrades the image less than other blurs.
Philip Hodgetts provides tips on the Creative COW website for getting thebest results when creating text or vector graphics for video.
This section documents scripting methods for working with text, and includes links to popular scripts and tutorials.
Create one or multiple text layers based on the contents of a text file
Christopher Green provides a script (crg_Text_from_File.jsx) on his website that allows you to create one text layer from all of the text, or you can create one layer for each line in the text file. The script also provides options for leading and other spacing.
You can read the baseline (x,y) locations for a text layer using scripting with the After Effects CC 2015 (13.6) update. The new sourceText.value.baselineLocs attribute for TextDocument objects returns an array of floats indicating the starting position of each line of text’s baseline x and y value.
Line wraps in a paragraph text box are treated as multiple lines.
The array returns float values in the form of:
line0.start_x, line0.start_y, line0.end_x, line0.end_y, line1.start_x, line1.start_y, line1.end_x, line1.end_y … lineN-1.start_x, lineN-1.start_y, lineN-1.end_x, lineN-1.end_y
If a line has no characters, the x and y values for start and end are the maximum float value (3.402823466e+38F).
You can read additional information through scripting about the font and style used in a text layer, including the location of the font file on disk.
Following are the read-only attributes for the textDocument object:
The value returned is for the first character in the text layer at the current time.
This script displays a palette for editing the text of text layers in an unstyled form. If your text layer uses a complex animation, or is difficult to access or is hidden at the current time, editing the text when not animated or style can be useful.
Download this script from Jeff Almasol's website: Redifinery.
This script maps lines from a text file as Source Text keyframes on the selected text layer at successive markers on the layer. You can control the text line to use by entering a line number as the marker’s comment.
Download this script from Jeff Almasol's website: Redifinery.
This script displays a palette with controls for fixing various “plain text” punctuation into their “smart” typographical representations (for example, (c) is converted to the copyright symbol, ©).
Download this script from Jeff Almasol's website: Redefinery.
Todd Kopriva provides an example script on the Adobe website that demonstrates the text formatting features available through the scripting interface.
Salahuddin Taha provides a script on the After Effects Scripts website that enables entry of Arabic text (which flows from right to left).
Michael Cardeiro provides a script on the After Effects Scripts website that makes multiple versions of your compositions using information from a spreadsheet or database. The script goes through your spreadsheet line by line, making a new version of your composition with text layers in the composition receiving text from the spreadsheet automatically.
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The After Effects Scripts website provides many scripts for working with text. Paul Tuersley provides a script on the After Effects Scripts website that allows you to search for and edit text layers throughout your After Effects project, create your own text style presets, and apply them to multiple layers.
Paul Tuersley provides a script on the AE Enhancers forum for importing Substation Alpha (SSA) karaoke files and automatically creating animated text layers from them.
For examples of expressions for the Source Text property, see Writing expressions for source text and MarkerKey attributes (expression reference).
When you enter point text, each line of textis independent—the length of a line increases or decreases as youedit the text, but it doesn’t wrap to the next line.
Thesmall line through the type tool pointer marksthe position of the text baseline. For horizontal text,the baseline marks the line on which the text rests; for verticaltext, the baseline marks the center axis of the characters.
Whenyou enter point text, it is created using the properties currentlyset in the Character panel. You can change these properties laterby selecting the text and modifying settings in the Character panel.
When you enter paragraph text, the lines oftext wrap to fit the dimensions of the bounding box. You can entermultiple paragraphs and apply paragraph formatting.
You canresize the bounding box at any time, which causes the text to reflow withinthe adjusted rectangle.
When you enter paragraph text, ithas the properties set in the Character and Paragraph panels. Youcan change these properties later by selecting the text and modifyingsettings in the Character and Paragraph panels.
You can edit text in text layers at any time.If you set the text to follow a path, designate it as a 3D layer,transform it, or animate it, you can still continue to edit it.Before you can edit text, you must select it.
Todisable the Path Options property group for a text layer, clickthe visibility (eyeball)switch for the Path Options property group. Temporarily disablingthe Path Options property group can make editing and formattingtext easier.
The pointer for a type tool changes, dependingon whether it is over a text layer in the Composition panel. Whenthe pointer for a type tool is directly over a text layer, it appearsas the edit text pointer ; clickto place the insertion point in the existing text.
To select all text in a text layer andactivate the most recently used type tool, double-click the textlayer in the Timeline panel.
Online resources for selectingand editing text in text layers
Jeff Almasol provides a script on his redefinery website for editing thesource text of text layers.
Jeff Almasol provides a scripton his redefinery website that converts various plaintext punctuation into their “smart” typographical representations(for example, (c) is converted to the copyright symbol, ©).
JeffAlmasol provides a script on his redefinery website that sets keyframesfor the Source Text property of a text layer and sets the valuesto text from a text file; the keyframes are placed at times specifiedby layer markers on the text layer.
You can drag with the move pointer inthe Composition panel to move a text layer. To activate the movepointer without leaving text editing mode, move the type tool awayfrom the text in the Composition panel; when you see the move pointer , dragto move the text. You can also hold down the Ctrl (Windows) or Command(Mac OS) key to momentarily activate the move pointer.
When you convert paragraph text to pointtext, all characters outside the bounding box are deleted. To avoidlosing text, resize the bounding box so that all text is visiblebefore conversion.
You can type and edit text in right-to-left writing styles such as Arabic, and Indic writing style such as Hindi.
There are a few limitations to using right-to-left and Indic text systems:
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To enable right-to-left or Indic text, follow these steps:
Horizontal text flows from left to right;multiple lines of horizontal text lie from top to bottom. Verticaltext flows from top to bottom; multiple lines of text lie from rightto left.
A. Horizontal point text B. Horizontalpoint text converted to vertical C. Horizontalparagraph text D. Horizontal paragraphtext converted to vertical
You can switch the text direction between left-to-right and right-to-left. To change the direction, click the text direction buttons in the Paragraph panel.
Ligatures are typographic replacement characters for certain letter pairs if they are available in a given Open Type font. You can use font ligatures by enabling the Ligatures option in the Character panel. After Effects has ligatures in many fonts for character combinations in different languages. You can also enable the option using the Font Ligature checkbox at the bottom of the Character panel.
You can use Hindi digits use enabling the Hindi Digits option in the Character panel. You can also enable the option using the Hindi Digits checkbox at the bottom of the Character panel.
Text layers from Photoshop retain their styleand remain editable in After Effects.
If you imported thePhotoshop document as merged layers, then you must first selectthe layer and choose Layer > Convert To Layered Comp to decomposethe imported Photoshop document into its layers.
The layer becomes an After Effects text layer and nolonger uses the Photoshop text layer as its source footage item.
Ifthe layer contains layer styles, the layer styles are convertedto editable layer styles as if the Layer > Layer Styles >Convert To Editable Styles command had been used on the layer beforeconverting the text to editable text.
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