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Interactive Text Controls in Adobe After Effects

Flexibility for adjusting the text in your movie credits. Learn how to change fonts using Adobe After Effects software in this free video editing tutorial from a film production professor.

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Now if you want to change the fonts, you'll have to open the character window which is a separate window and select the font that you want. And in this window is where you change the color and some of the other parameters. I tried to manually stretch it and it just went crazy, so, I think part of that is because I'm working in Camtasia and it sort of interferes with the aftereffects in some of these other programs. But anyway, let's change the font size by just scrolling through the font size here in the character window, and so as you can see it is much more interactive. You can change the kurning, you can change all sorts of things in this window. And now we can animate the text as a separate element from the rest of the image. Let's add a little drop shadow to this to make it stand out even more, and the way to do that is to go to, right click on the track, go to effect, perspective and drop shadow.

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Interactive Text Controls in Adobe After Effects

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