Type Tool Tricks in After Effects | Tutorial

In this After Effects tutorial, I'll show you some amazing type tool tricks. We cover some basics first, then deep dive. We add animators, combine them and add more and more details.
We'll play with the Source Text property and finally use the Index unit to affect single letters.

Content:
0:00 Intro
0:19 Type Tool Basics
0:48 Text along a path
1:11 Adding Animators
2:30 Animate expressive typography
3:04 Combining Animators
5:28 The Source Text Property
6:14 Using the Index Unit
8:11 Outro

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► Software: Adobe After Effects 22 (I use the "Default" Workspace in my tutorials)

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[gregkrazanski]

ok, i've been using AE for years and i DID NOT know you could keyframe the font with the source text parameter. I have NO CLUE how I missed that all these years. Thank you!

[bdivya]

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[Purimta]

Smart...🙂..fw as always..
Thank you sir...🙂

[salilthegreat]

I always thought there must be a manual way or any plug-ins to do that random poping text animation ..i never thought there is any random option..thanx alot🙌

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[bubanga]

Hey Manuel. Great tutorial as always! I have some question;

1:23 - About the opacity animator. You set it up to "0", this part is okay. Then you animate from Range selector starting value 0 to 100. So how this is possible while you had "0" opacity still there? What's the logic? Really, I can't get this thing...

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