Lines Text Reveal | After Effects Tutorial

In this After Effects tutorial, I'll show you how to reveal text with two lines. Spoiler: The lines aren't actual lines. But a few masks.

Content:
0:00 Intro
0:14 Creating the two lines
1:24 Adding text
1:46 Creating the mask
2:44 Expressive typography in After Effects
3:16 Animating the lines and text
4:49 Adjusting the speed curves
6:11 Revealing the lines
7:38 Outro

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

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[MrBeaun]

What a wonderful technique! Thanks for the awesome tutorial Manuel!

[bidishaaqte]

you, the best ! I almost checked all of your videos. thank you so much for making such useful tutorial !!!

[richochet]

Well done again Manuel!

Question: Why did you create 2 masks on each shape layer (and why did you expand the line 4px)?

[icalhamzah]

any idea why in my mask layer the pick whip toggle is missing?

[joelschmidt]

Love this technique! When I expand the top mask by 4 pixels, I don't get a visible line. Any ideas on what I might be missing?