- Chapter overview
- Getting started
- About text layers
- Creating and formatting point type
- Using a text animation preset
- Animating with scale keyframes
- Animating using parenting
- Animating imported Photoshop text
- Animating text using a path preset
- Animating type tracking
- Animating the letters opacity
- Using a text animator group
- Cleaning up the path animation
- Animating the dragonfly
- Adding motion blur
- Review
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Adding motion blur
To finesse the composition and make the movement look more natural, you’ll finish up by applying motion blur.
- In the Timeline panel, turn on motion blur for all of the layers except the Pondbackground and Credits layers.
You don’t need to add a blur to the Pondbackground layer, but what about the Credits layer? You need to turn on motion blur to the layers in the Credits composition.
- Switch to the Credits Timeline panel and turn on motion blur for both layers.
- Switch back to the Pond_Title_Sequence Timeline panel and now turn on motion blur for the Credits layer. Then, click the Enable
Motion Blur button (
) at the top of the Timeline panel so that you can see the motion blur in the Composition panel.
- Press 0 on the numeric keypad to watch a RAM preview of the entire, completed animation.
- Choose File > Save.
Give yourself a pat on the back. You just completed some hard-core text animations. You can render the composition now if you’d like. If so, see Chapter 12, “Rendering and Outputting,” for instructions on rendering. Otherwise, continue with Chapter 4, “Animating a Multimedia Presentation.”
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Total Training: Animated Text
The series of Total Training movies that are provided on the Adobe After Effects 7.0 Classroom in a Book DVD includes a tutorial on animating text. To learn more about converting Photoshop layers into editable text, previewing and applying text animation presets, and applying motion blur to animation effects, see the QuickTime movie AnimatedText.mov located in the Movies folder on this book’s DVD.
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