Flash After Effects- P4

Flash After Effects- P4: Flash Designers: Take your projects to the nextlevel with After Effects’ robust toolset. You areabout to take a journey that combines thesetwo powerhouse applications. Enter the worldof Adobe After Effects. Welcome aboard.
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Flash After Effects- P4 The break is over. Let’s get back into After Effects and explore another advanced technique using text selectors. In this next part of the exercise, you are going to focus on animating the original text layer that is currently hidden.16. Turn off the visibility of the duplicate text layer by clicking on its video switch. Turn on the visibility of the original text layer (DOWNLOAD).17. Double-click on the text to select all. Change the text color to a bright green. Increase the font size so that the text fills the width of the Comp Window (Figure 5.35). For this exercise, the font size was set to 104 pixels. Figure 5.35: Change the text color and increase the font size.18. In the Timeline, twirl open the text layer to display the Text and Transform options. Click on the arrow next to the word Animate and select Position.19. In the Range Selector 1 section, scrub through the Position value and set it to 0.0, 500.0. This changes the vertical position of the text in the Comp Window.20. On the Animator 1 layer, select the popup menu next to the word Add. Select Selector > Wiggly. A new Wiggly Selector appears underneath the Range Selector 1 in the Timeline. The letters appear at different vertical locations in the Comp Window (Figure 5.36). A Wiggly Selector adds randomness to the overall text animation. You can control its affect through the Wiggly properties. Figure 5.36: Apply the Wiggler Selector to the text layer.21. Twirl open the Wiggly Selector 1. Change the Wiggles/Second value to 20.0. The text now “wiggles” much faster in the Comp Window. To enhance the mo- tion, let’s activate the motion blur for this layer.136 Chapter 5: Type in Motion22. Turn on the Motion Blur switch for both text layers in the Timeline. Click on the Enable Motion Blur button at the top of the Timeline. Whenever this button is activated, any layer with the Motion Blur switch enabled will display the blur in the Comp Window (Figure 5.37).23. Turn on the visibility of the duplicate text layer (DOWNLOAD 2) by clicking on its Video switch .24. Click on the RAM Preview button. Your motion graphics project is starting to look like it belongs in the opening credits to “The Matrix.” Save your project. Figure 5.37: Enable the Motion Blur switch and button to enhance the animation.25. Press the Home key to move the CTI to the beginning of the composition.26. Deselect all text layers in the Timeline. Make sure nothing is highlighted. Go to the Effects & Presets panel. Twirl open the Backgrounds folder. Double-click on Circuit. A new solid layer is added to the Timeline and Project panel.27. In the Timeline, move the Solid 1 layer to the bottom of the stack. Type the U key to reveal all its keyframed properties. The Scale and Evolution properties appear. Click and drag both keyframes to the beginning of the composition.28. Type T on the keyboard to display the layer’s Opacity property. Set its value to 40%. This provides better contrast between the text and the background. Click on the RAM Preview button to see the final results.Using Text Animators 137 Figure 5.38: The final composition includes an animated background preset.29. The composition is done. The project has evolved from a Flash preloading animation to a title sequence. Since you added motion blur to the text layers, exporting to a SWF file is now not the best solution. Render the composition as a Flash Video (FLV) file.30. Select Composition > Make Movie. Click on Lossless next to Output Module. Set the Format to Adobe Flash Video. Click on Format Options and set the Bitrate setting to 400.31. Click on Output To and select the Chapter_05 folder on your hard drive as the final destination for the rendered movie. Click the Render button. The final file size for the FLV file is 270 KB. Import the video into Flash using “progressive download.” Summary This completes the chapter on type in motion. You covered a lot of ground with text and all its properties. This chapter only scratches the surface of what you can do with the text engine in After Effects. The possibilities are endless. The best way to keep learning is to apply the text animation presets and examine their structure. From there, you can start creating your own custom presets. In the next chapter you cross over into the third dimension.138 Chapter 5: Type in Motion CHAPTER 6 The Third Dimension ...