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You can add text to a composition using text layers. Text layers are useful for many purposes, including animated titles, lower thirds, credit rolls, and dynamic typography. You can animate the properties of entire text layers or the properties of individual characters, such as color, size, and position. You animate text using text animator properties and selectors. 3D text layers can optionally contain 3D sublayers, one for each character. (See and.) Text layers are synthetic layers, meaning that a text layer does not use a footage item as its source—though you can convert text information from some footage items into text layers.

Text layers are also vector layers. As with shape layers and other vector layers, text layers are always continuously rasterized, so when you scale the layer or resize the text, it retains crisp, resolution-independent edges. You cannot open a text layer in its own Layer panel, but you can work with text layers in the Composition panel.

After Effects uses two kinds of text: point text and paragraph text. Point text is useful for entering a single word or a line of characters; paragraph text is useful for entering and formatting the text as one or more paragraphs.

You can copy text from other applications such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, or any text editor, and paste it into a text layer in After Effects. Because After Effects also supports Unicode characters, you can copy and paste these characters between After Effects and any other application that also supports Unicode (which includes all Adobe applications).

Text formatting is included in the Source Text property. Use the Source Text property to animate formatting and to change the characters themselves (for example, change the letter b to the letter c). After Effects CC automatically synchronizes missing fonts using TypeKit. The Resolve Fonts dialog is displayed when you open a project that uses fonts that are not installed.

If the fonts are available from TypeKit, you can choose to have them automatically synced to your Creative Cloud account and installed. TypeKit sync is available both for fonts included with your Creative Cloud subscription, and for fonts available for purchase from TypeKit Marketplace.

After Effects replaces fonts that are not available from TypeKit with the default font. Text that looks good on your computer screen as you are creating it can sometimes look bad when viewed in a final output movie. These differences can arise from the device used to view the movie or from the compression scheme used to encode the movie. The same is true for other vector graphics, such as shapes in shape layers.

In fact, the same problems can occur in raster images, but the small and sharp details of vector graphics cause the problems most often. Keep in mind the following as you create and animate text and vector graphics for video. You should always preview your movie on the same kind of device that your audience use to view it, such as an NTSC video monitor.

(See.). Avoid sharp color transitions, especially from one highly saturated color to its complementary color. Sharp color transitions are difficult for many compression schemes—such as the compression schemes in MPEG and JPEG standards—to encode.

These compression schemes can cause visual noise near sharp transitions. For analog television, the same sharp transitions can cause spikes outside the allowed range for the signal, also causing noise. When text will be over moving images, make sure that the text has a contrasting border (such as a glow or a stroke) so that the text is still readable when something the same color as the fill passes behind the text. Avoid thin horizontal elements, which can vanish from the frame if they happen to be on an even scan line during an odd field, or vice versa. The height of the horizontal bar in a capital H, for example, should be three pixels or greater. You can thicken horizontal elements by increasing font size, using a bold (or faux bold) style, or applying a stroke.

(See.). When animating text to move vertically—for scrolling credits, for example—move the text vertically at a rate in pixels per second that is an even multiple of the field rate for the interlaced video format.

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Such a rate of movement prevents a kind of twitter that can come from the text movement being out of phase with the scan lines. For NTSC, good values include 0, 119.88, and 239.76 pixels per second; for PAL, good values include 0, 100, and 200 pixels per second. Fortunately, many problems with text in video and compressed movie formats can be solved with one simple technique: Apply a blur to the text layer. A slight blur can soften color transitions and cause thin horizontal elements to expand. The Reduce Interlace Flicker effect works best for the purpose of reducing twitter; it applies a vertical directional blur but doesn't blur horizontally, so it degrades the image less than other blurs. Philip Hodgetts provides tips on the for getting the best results when creating text or vector graphics for video. You can read the baseline (x,y) locations for a text layer using scripting with the After Effects CC 2015 (13.6) update.

The new sourceText.value.baselineLocs attribute for TextDocument objects returns an array of floats indicating the starting position of each line of text’s baseline x and y value. Line wraps in a paragraph text box are treated as multiple lines. The array returns float values in the form of: line0.startx, line0.starty, line0.endx, line0.endy, line1.startx, line1.starty, line1.endx, line1.endy lineN-1.startx, lineN-1.starty, lineN-1.endx, lineN-1.endy. You can read additional information through scripting about the font and style used in a text layer, including the location of the font file on disk. Following are the read-only attributes for the textDocument object:. fontLocation: returns string with path of font file, providing its location on disk (not guaranteed to be returned for all font types; return value may be empty string for some kinds of fonts). fontStyle: returns string with style information —such as bold, or italic.

fontFamily: returns a string with the name of the font family The value returned is for the first character in the text layer at the current time. Todd Kopriva provides an example script on the that demonstrates the text formatting features available through the scripting interface. Salahuddin Taha provides a script on the that enables entry of Arabic text (which flows from right to left). Michael Cardeiro provides a script on the that makes multiple versions of your compositions using information from a spreadsheet or database. The script goes through your spreadsheet line by line, making a new version of your composition with text layers in the composition receiving text from the spreadsheet automatically. The provides many scripts for working with text.

Paul Tuersley provides a script on the that allows you to search for and edit text layers throughout your After Effects project, create your own text style presets, and apply them to multiple layers. Paul Tuersley provides a script on the for importing Substation Alpha (SSA) karaoke files and automatically creating animated text layers from them. For examples of expressions for the Source Text property, see and. When you enter point text, each line of text is independent—the length of a line increases or decreases as you edit the text, but it doesn’t wrap to the next line. The small line through the type tool pointer marks the position of the text baseline. For horizontal text, the baseline marks the line on which the text rests; for vertical text, the baseline marks the center axis of the characters.

When you enter point text, it is created using the properties currently set in the Character panel. You can change these properties later by selecting the text and modifying settings in the Character panel. Jeff Almasol provides a script on his for editing the source text of text layers.

Jeff Almasol provides a script on his that converts various plain text punctuation into their “smart” typographical representations (for example, (c) is converted to the copyright symbol, ©). Jeff Almasol provides a script on his that sets keyframes for the Source Text property of a text layer and sets the values to text from a text file; the keyframes are placed at times specified by layer markers on the text layer.

You can share After Effects compositions as text templates with Premiere Pro CC as a single, packaged file that contains all the assets required for that composition. The template behaves like any other imported footage within Premiere Pro, with the added ability to modify the text. Using this feature, you can easily send a text template as a single file to the editor. To make this feature work, you need a free or licensed copy of After Effects installed on the same computer on which you have installed Premiere Pro.