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Basic techniques for animating text and titles in After Effects. In this tutorial and video walkthrough from Eric 'Didslive' you'll learn how to use keyframes and preset effects to make text animations fast.
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Eric covers three text animation techniques in this tutorial along with the steps needed to add keyframes and smooth animations. This tutorial is great to learn the basics so you can go on to create advanced text effects and animated title sequences in the future.
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hello everybody and welcome to an After
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Effects text animation tutorial today
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I'm going to be giving you guys three
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different ways that I like to animate
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text with in After Effects using
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absolutely nothing beyond what's already
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built into the program so let's dive
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right into it we have three examples
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here three different text options that
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we can show you guys exactly what we can
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do so what I'm gonna do first is show
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you guys the masks so with this first
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layer selected I'm going to go and
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select the rectangle tool you can
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immediately see what this allows us to
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do so we're going to drag this mask to
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the bottom we're gonna give it a little
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bit more room for the feather so what
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that feather is gonna do is kind of make
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it not so that it's such a harsh line so
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I'm just going to show you guys an
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example here you can see exactly what
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that does so let's bring that to 20 and
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he framed the path at the beginning 12
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frames in which is about a half second
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we're gonna go to our selection tool and
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bring this mask up now what you can see
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immediately is just what that does it
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brings in the text now this is kind of
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boring on its own it's a little
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lackluster so what I like to do so I
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have to hit P for my position and at the
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end set a keyframe because that's where
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the text is gonna stop and then then at
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the beginning go in really any direction
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I like to go up or down in this mask
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because it is a vertical situation so
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I'm gonna go down a little bit
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your your distance can vary here and
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what I'm gonna do is easy ease that
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movement so what you can see is that
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this text kind of just springs up into
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action and this is a really cool way to
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kind of introduce new characters in a
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video or adding some text over b-roll if
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that's something that you're looking to
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do so this is a great way to kind of
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just play with masks move your mask
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around you can change your keyframes do
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all sorts of different things with the
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expansion the mask the movement and
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really just play around with the mask in
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that sense example number two what
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everybody forgets is that After Effects
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has amazing built-in solutions to text
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animation look at all of these different
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options that we can play with so what
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I'm going to do is just show you a
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couple so here's espresso a chart you
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can kind of see exactly how that likes
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to work if I can get it to actually play
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since my computers a little bit on the
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leg in Alaska's is just beginning of it
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there we go
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so you can kind of see what this does
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now it seems as if this is in fact
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that's larger than the conversation size
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so what I'm gonna do is just go to
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composition and change it to let's just
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say nine seconds oops and then if we
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zoom out there we go you can see those
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keyframes so you can see exactly what
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this does it really has a good way to
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just kind of bring in the text it's a
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cool little different effect so that's
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one way that I like to use these
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built-in effects another one that I
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think is arguably even more effective is
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the typewriter so it's pretty plain Jane
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in this case I'm going to need to
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probably bring the composition a little
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bit larger again so let's just make it
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fourteen seconds here's our key frames
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you can hit you twice to be able to see
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them select them bring them over and
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trim our composition back down so
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typewriter pretty straightforward it's a
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typewriter but what really is cool about
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this is being able to change where those
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key frames are and changing the speed of
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it so if you've got a long paragraph
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that you're trying to type on while
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maybe an interviewee is going through a
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quote that you want to just the show
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on-screen as they're talking about it
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you can have different effects and you
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can change so I can add this 22% and
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let's just say I dragged this out so if
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they're talking slowly at first and then
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they speed up or change pace within that
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quote you can go and you can do that
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right in this program you can go and you
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can do all of those things right within
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these effects and it's really cool to do
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that as well the third example that I
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want to show you guys is other effects
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that you can use within these text
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animations so what I like to do is I
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like to do Gaussian blur this is
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probably one of my favorite ways to do
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this I like to go and let's just show
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you guys what a hundred looks like so a
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hundred looks pretty darn good so let's
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just say that's what we want to be so at
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the end we're gonna do this
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the key frame here hit the opacity bring
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this down to zero and if we just go
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forward a second will bring down the
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blurriness to zero the opacity to a
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hundred and you can immediately see what
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that does for us now what I like to also
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do in these situations is kind of play
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with the scale a little bit so if we go
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and we do 115 and we hit the scale at
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the beginning and then a second in let's
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just say even a second and a half we go
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down to a hundred what this does is it
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really just kind of helps the text fade
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in in a really cool way so I like to use
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this over cinematic b-roll if I'm
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announcing an location and I'm making a
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video that's let's just say I'm
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traveling to Maui and I'm making a
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travel video on Maui this is exactly how
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I would introduce that location so I
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would have this text it would blur in it
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would be really cool I'd probably slow
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it down a little bit so I can go in and
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I can kind of just let's just drag all
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these out you can kind of just see
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exactly what that can look like another
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way that I like to do this let's just
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undo all of these things cuz I like to
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use linear wipes now this is another way
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to do the masks what I really want to
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just show you guys all of the cool
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things that you can do with what After
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Effects already provides you I went
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ahead and changed the wipe angle to 270
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because as you can see it's kind of
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backwards off the bat which I don't
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understand necessarily but we're just
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gonna go and change that so 100% is
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technically at the beginning 0% is
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technically the end so we can go through
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and have this be a hundred percent even
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just masking it let's just do 25 with
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the feather there and we can do
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transition completion and then go 12
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frames in drop this down to zero and you
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can see exactly what that looks like now
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let's say we want this to go out and
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animate out but in the opposite
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direction because if we go here and we
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do this from the same capacity if we go
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here and hit you you again to bring
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these up add a keyframe here and then go
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back down to well up to 100 I should say
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you can see that it goes back
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words say we want that to be a little
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different say we wanted to go still from
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left to right animating out what we can
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do is we can go here and change the
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angle so we'll keyframe the angle right
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before that transition begins so what I
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did there is I'm using command or
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control and the arrow keys to go just
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one keyframe left or right and then what
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we can do here is go to 90 and then you
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can see it animates just the same way so
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it goes left to right in both directions
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I hope this helps you guys get off the
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right foot there's so many other things
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that you can do with in after-effects
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just to give you guys a quick example of
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some of the crazy things that you can do
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I'm just going to add a CC lens effect
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this is one of my favorites going back
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into my early editing days this is
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something that I used a lot so I can go
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and bring this in let's just bring that
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there and then 500 you can see it kind
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of gives a really cool zoom style effect
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it kind of just flows right in and it's
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just really cool there's so many things
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you can do within After Effects I always
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say to people that are new to After
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Effects that if you can imagine it After
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Effects can somehow make it happen so if
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you want to see some more ideas in more
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ways that anything can be a possibility
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leave some thoughts in the comments
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below we would love to hear what you
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guys want to see thank you so much for
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watching and we will see you guys next
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time