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hello guys soft Tony here welcome to
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another After Effects tutorial and in
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this video Lesson we're going to create
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this easy to follow stroke animation
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text so without wasting any more time
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let's jump straight into after effects
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all right we're hearing After Effects
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and first like always let's create a new
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composition hit Control Plus n or this
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little icon here this is going to be
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final comp of course you can type your
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own text 9020 by 1080 60 frames per
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seconds and duration 4 seconds long hit
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OK and now let's create our background
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goal right click find here new solid
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layer I will rename this one too
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background of course you can type your
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own text 9020 by 1080 hit OK and now
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it's time to add our first effect here
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on background layer go here in the
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faction preset and if you can't find
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them just go window and you will find
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them here okay now type here ramp effect
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drag and drop onto our background layer
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and now let's readjust our start of the
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ramp upper left corner end of the ramp
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lower right corner and change colors
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according your needs for this particular
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tutorial I will do maybe this type of
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pink or purple color like this hit OK
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and for the second color maybe dark dark
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blue of course you will play around in
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every moment later you can change the
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colors hit OK I will close this effects
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control for now and now let's create
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another solid layer go right click find
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here solid rename this to grid also 90
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20 by 1080 hit OK and then go here in
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the facts and preset and find grid
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effect drag and drop onto our grid layer
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like so change the size from from corner
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point to with slider and type here for
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the width 10 and also for the Border 10.
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also select this option invert grid and
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now as you can see in our final scene we
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have these tiny dots on our background
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also what we can do is to change our
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blending mode if you can't find blending
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mode just hit here toggle switches and
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modes to find them and let's change this
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to Overlay and now what you can do is to
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duplicate this grid solid layer once
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to see even better our tiny Dots here in
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our final scene okay now let's create
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text layer here on our final scene let's
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hit Control Plus t or go here on this
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little icon I will just type
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outlines of course you will type your
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own text I'm using this Baba's my phone
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200 font size okay align it to the
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center go here file align if you can
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find the line just go window and you
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will find it here now let's swap fill
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and stroke for our stroke outlines
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double click here go here on this
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character option and just hit this
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little icon to swap fill and stroke now
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you can play around with the stroke
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width like so and for this particular
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tutorial I will do maybe four now let's
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convert stroke out outlines in shapes go
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right click find here create and select
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this option create shapes from text now
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you can delete these stroke outlines
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lower option like so open up this Little
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Triangle pull here on ADD find here trim
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pads go at maybe 2 seconds open up these
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trim pads option set a power first
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keyframe for and go at zero frames and
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type here zero okay now grab both of our
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keyframes hit F9 on your keyboard go to
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graph editor and let's draw a curve like
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and if you can't find curve like this
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just go right click and find here edit
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speed graph now in our final scene when
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we hit 0 we have this cool animation of
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our stroke text okay now what we can do
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is to duplicate this once hit control
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plus d move upper text maybe two frames
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okay duplicate this once again move this
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maybe four frames ahead once again six
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frames ahead now select our first three
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stroke texts go here in the facts and
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fill effect double click and now as you
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can see we have this Red Stroke outline
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text that we're going to also change to
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another colors for the first let's leave
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it to red color for the second one let's
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change to maybe dark blue color like
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this hit OK and for the third one let's
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change to maybe yellow color hit OK and
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now when we hit zero we have this really
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cool and awesome animation of our stroke
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text also what we can do for our upper
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text go here in the facts and preset
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find glow drag and drop onto our first
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text and for the glow threshold type
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here 50 radius also 50 and glow
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intensity 0.5 and now we also have this
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glowy final text in our final scene
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okay for the final step we can
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pre-compose text select them all then go
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right click select here pre-compose I
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will rename this one to text o1 hit OK
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and now let's duplicate this one once
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again hit Ctrl D for the lower text or
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fast blur drag and drop onto our text o1
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and here basically you can play around
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with the options for this Center do
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something like this for the amount let's
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go to around maybe 85 and also type here
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effect drag and drop above our radial
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fast blur effect and here basically you
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can play around with the option to
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change colors of these Shadows according
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your needs I will do black color hit OK
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you can also find here overlay blending
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mode play around or leave it to normal
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duplicate once again if you need and now
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when we hit zero in our finals we have
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also this cool shadows of our stroke
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outlines text you can also if you want
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animate this Center option to get your
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own results okay now when we hit 0 we
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have this really cool and nice stroke
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